Blog: What are the Leather Options for NIKEiD Styles?
Some NIKEiD styles offer a selection of premium upper materials for a style that best suits
the consumer.
In general, these options are mainly leather. So in that respect, they will wear very
similarly. However, they will look a little different.
Crinkle - Full grain leather with an textured surface that looks like crinkled paper. It has
areas that look creased or folded.
Jungle - Full grain leather with a medium sized reptile/aligator texture
Short Stop - Full Grain aniline leather. This is a high end leather with a smooth top
coating. It’s really good stuff.
Kangaroo - Kangaroo Leather. This is exactly like the leather we use on our top end soccer
shoes. It is soft, strong, and looks great.
Patent - Patent Leather. This will have a shiny, top coating on it so that it looks like the
leather is “under glass”.
Pearlized - Full Grain pigmented leather. This leather will also have a smooth top coating,
but he colors will be more vibrant because the leather gets most of its coloration from a
painting type process.
Metallic – A leather that has a metallic finish on the top. It looks great and really
shines.
Textile – A Nylon based material that harkens back to the day when this type of material
was used in the upper of a track spike.
Nubuck – This is a Full Grain leather that has a really fine, buffed surface. It’s like
they took 320 grit sand paper to the top of the leather to give it a nice, soft nap.
McCoy – Another pigmented Full Grain leather.
Glazed Pull-Up Leather - It is full grain leather with a slightly waxy finish. When flexed
or aged has a natural color variations that varies shoe to shoe.
