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Shoes were never engineered to be collectables. After a couple years the glue fails and your "investment" is worthless. I had a friend who was really into this and he had a huge collection. Needless to say he was pretty pissed when he opened the boxes and found his shoes falling apart.

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I mean he doesn't sound like much of a collector if he didn't know how to protect the shoes. Sealing them airtight helps and so does removing water as discussed in other comments. Almost everything that people collect needs some amount of protection.

We're not talking decades so I don't think he was being unreasonable. Most people would expect a product that has been kept in a box in climate controlled conditions to, you know, not fall apart after a couple years. Get off your high horse.

Yeah they don’t fall apart after a couple of years. After 20 though those earlier plaits weren’t made to the same standard with the same material. Get off your ignorant horse?

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