MDen to hold midnight release party for Nike
There will be a midnight release at the MDen on Campus on August 1st. More details will come out soon, but expect it to be a PARTY atmosphere with festivities.
http://www.mden.com/NikeLaunch.html
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I'm in no way a sneakerhead or gear-geek, but I'm pretty excited by this.
*I do own approximately 70 items of Michigan stuff. Above statement a representation, not a warranty.
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If anybody is looking to sell some gear in preparation for the release of the Nike stuff, check out the MGoClassified Facebook page.
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Fuck it - if it's a party, then so be it.
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this combined with Harbaugh's tweer = Drake
For anybody who is a bit of a sneakerhead, Nike has already released Michigan Dunk Retro QS. Best part is that it looks like the maize has been corrected from adidas mustard.
Maize is defined as 255-203-5 with the University, and every Nike ad I've seen features that exact color.
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Hate to break it to you, but there is no such thing as 'real maize". Adidas literally made up the maize they used last year. Just terrible.
https://vpcomm.umich.edu/brand/style-guide/design-principles/colors
Match it.
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Yet the maize the band wears, that's on the field, that Michigan wore for over 20 years before last, etc are all different. LOL at thinking some color wheel is going to define what Nike rolls out this fall. There is a reason they copyrighted the maize they had used for Michigan. Adidas made Michigan look like West Virginia. Just god awful.
The helmets were 255-203-5 as well. As were the stickers. Does adidas supply those as well?
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The official pantone for the Michigan maize is 7406C, which is the more golden color that you're describing as "mustard colored"
https://vpcomm.umich.edu/brand/style-guide/design-principles/colors
There's not a lot of value to posting pictures you find online, as there is so much variation with cameras, editing, and lighting. You can find pictures of last year's team where the maize looks very yellow as well. It is heavily dependent on how/when the picture is taken
I was at every home game last year. It's mustard. The picture I posted looks exactly how it does in person. Any season ticket holder can tell you that. There ws a huge disconnect between the maize the team wore and the maize on the field and what the band wore. Looked like some amatuer shit.
I agree there was a difference in what we wore last year vs. what we wore the previous few years, there's no denying that. But it's hard to determine which one is the "correct" maize and I would argue that Adidas corrected their error of moving the maize to more of a bright yellow.
What we wore last year is a lot closer to the official color given by the University. As far as what they wore 20 years ago, it becomes a pretty fruitless exercise trying to compare a picture from 1984 to one from last year.
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Wisconsin did something in the same vein last night and it was not received well by some fans. Thankfully, it seems like Michigan is planning to do things differently.