FLOAT 100 · Sneakers · No. 70
Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG 'Pine Green'
No green Air Jordan 1 came out in 1985, but in 2018 Jordan Brand took the classic 'Black Toe' pattern, painted it in a Boston Celtics-like pine green, and made the first Air Jordan 1 in that color.
- Year
- 2018
- Maker
- Nike / Jordan Brand
- By price in sneakers
- 75 of 100
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- Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG 'Pine Green'
- Style code
- 555088-302
- Colorway
- Pine Green/Sail-Black
- Released
- September 22, 2018
- Retail price
- $160 men's, $120 grade school
- Build
- All-leather upper; 'Nike Air' on the tongue tag and insoles
- Pattern
- The 'Black Toe' color blocking, with green in place of red
- Original?
- No: a new colorway, not part of the 1985 lineup
- Follow-up
- A second 'Pine Green' in Bred-style blocking, $170, in early 2020
A new color on an old pattern
Most of the Air Jordan 1s collectors treat as essential date to 1985: the Chicago, the Bred, the Black Toe, the Shadow, the Royal, the UNC. The 'Pine Green' is different. No green colorway appears in collector archives of the original 1985-86 lineup. It is a modern design that borrows its structure from the past.
That structure is the 'Black Toe.' Release coverage described the shoe as 'a new twist on the classic Black Toe theme,' with pine green taking the role that red plays on the original. One later writer framed it the other way, saying the 2018 shoe 'flipped the popular Bred Toe color blocking scheme.' Either way, the pattern is one Michael Jordan's rookie-season shoe made famous.
The palette drew comparisons to the Boston Celtics. One reseller's write-up called it 'a must-have for fans of the Boston Celtics,' an ironic match for a shoe named after the Chicago Bulls' greatest player.
Peter Moore's template, Jordan Brand's experiment
Peter Moore designed the Air Jordan 1 and its Wings logo after Nike signed Jordan in 1984, and the shoe went on sale in April 1985 at $65. More than three decades later, Jordan Brand's Retro High OG line was reproducing the 1985 shape, with details like 'Nike Air' on the tongue, in both original and new colors.
2018 was a busy year for that line. The leather 'Shadow' returned in April, and the Pine Green arrived in September as part of an expanded Air Jordan 1 lineup. A 2020 write-up looked back on 2018 and 2019 as years of experimental colorways, and saw 2020 as 'a move back to more conservative, OG-inspired colorways.'
Release and afterlife
The Pine Green released September 22, 2018, at select Jordan Brand retailers worldwide and on Nike's website, at $160 for men's sizes and $120 for grade school.
The color returned in early 2020 in a different pattern. That version, at $170, used Bred-style blocking: pine green tumbled leather on the heel, heel collar, toe box and Swoosh, with black tumbled leather and black laces.
On October 3, 2026, a U.S. sneaker reseller listed the 2018 Pine Green from $311, nearly twice its $160 retail price.
How to identify the 2018 pair
Check the size label for 555088-302 and the colorway Pine Green/Sail-Black. On the 2018 pair, pine green covers the toe box, tongue label, heel, collar and outsole. Black is used for the Wings logo, the Swoosh, the laces, the tongue and the toe overlay. The side panels and midsole are sail.
The 2020 Pine Green uses black tumbled leather for contrast, with green on the toe, heel, heel collar and Swoosh, so the two are easy to tell apart.
The numbers
- Release date
- September 22, 2018
- Retail price
- $160 men's, $120 grade school
- Style code
- 555088-302
- Production
- Not stated by Nike
Timeline
Nike signs Michael Jordan; Peter Moore designs the Air Jordan 1.
The Air Jordan 1 goes on sale at $65.
The 'Black Toe,' whose blocking the Pine Green later borrows, is among the second wave of colorways.
The leather 'Shadow' retro releases, part of a busy Air Jordan 1 year.
The Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG 'Pine Green,' 555088-302, releases at $160.
A second Pine Green, in Bred-style blocking, releases at $170.
A U.S. reseller lists the 2018 pair from $311.
The world in 2018
New York's Cortlandt Street subway station reopens, 17 years after it was destroyed on 9/11.
Hurricane Florence makes landfall in North Carolina.
NASA launches the ICESat-2 ice-monitoring satellite.
Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to 10 years.
A Star Is Born is released.
The Boston Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the World Series.
Price record
| Date | Price | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | $311 | Asking price, not a saleLowest listing at a U.S. sneaker reseller on the day checked. |
This is an asking price, not a sale. It is what a seller wanted on the date shown. Asking prices often sit above what buyers pay, but an ask is not a ceiling: a sale can land on either side of it. It is not a value.
By reference price, Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG 'Pine Green' is number 75 of 100 in the sneakers entries of the FLOAT 100. 22 of those 100 rest on a realized sale; the rest carry an asking price or a guide value, and each page says which. Rank within the FLOAT 100 itself (70 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.
Did you know
- The Pine Green is not a 1985 colorway; it first appeared in 2018.
- Its color blocking comes from the 1985 'Black Toe.'
- Write-ups compared its palette to the Boston Celtics.
- A second Pine Green released in 2020 with completely different blocking.
How this page is made
- The figure
- One reference price, shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. An asking price, an estimate and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- The story
- Researched from published records and checked fact by fact. Updated Oct 3, 2026.
- Archive
- Oct 5, 2026