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nike or nike sportswear.

Noble Locks Posted: Fri, 27/11/2009 - 9:16am
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i always see milspex and tronics naming anything they wear by the 'nike' as 'nike sportswear/nsw' now, and also every single thing the trendy upfront sites like hypebeast and high snobiety etc list by 'nike' they also call 'nike sportswear', wether its am1's or a hat or a pair of socks.

examples
http://hypebeast.com/2009/11/nike-sportswear-air-max-1-athletic-west-baroque-brown/
http://hypebeast.com/2009/11/nike-af1-nyc-east-warriors/

this is a serious question, is there actually a diffusion line of the good old 'nike' as all us normals know it, called 'nike sportswear', or have the trendy internetz people just decided to change the name of the brand to sound cooler?
please advise?


mirrored Posted: Fri, 27/11/2009 - 9:58am
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the nsw collection is like a capsule of nike's top-of-the-range 'technical' stuff and is generally not nike-branded so works well with what people on here wear. it's separate from 'nike sportswear' which is just general nike stuff


Noble Locks Posted: Fri, 27/11/2009 - 10:03am
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thanks but im still in the dark mate.
so is NSW different from Nike Sportswear that is again different to ordainary Nike??
Puzzled


mirrored Posted: Fri, 27/11/2009 - 10:05am
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i think nike sportswear is just what 'ordinary nike' calls themselves these days. the last few pairs of nikes i've bought all had 'nike sportswear' on the box


Noble Locks Posted: Fri, 27/11/2009 - 10:10am
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right got that bit, thats what i was getting at and thought was the case. nice one.
but theres one last thing needing clearing up, if its written as 'NSW' and not the full wording does that mean its a non branded more cooler version of Nike Sportswear (normal Nike now) then?
bit confusing aint it.


mirrored Posted: Fri, 27/11/2009 - 10:18am
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yeah, think that's basically it. NSW isn't typical nike gear like windrunners and that, they tend to make updates of classic items like m65s and fishtail parkas. they're not available in JD or anywhere like that, so are therefore more 'exclusive' and cool
even more confusingly, it seems like 'nike sportswear' is the stuff that people wouldn't do any actual sport in, seeing as there's nike running, football and basketball divisions, which are again separate. Puzzled