The rubber mold inspired Nike's first shoe, the Waffle Trainer, which debuted in 1974. The shoes looked like this: Note how the soles look similar to the grooves of a waffle iron. Four decades ...
The Nike Air Max Waffle brings together elements of the 1973 Waffle Racer with the 1998 Air Max Plus. The upper gets the shape of the newer model with the materials and panels of the elder ...
Noah Wunsch from Sotheby's says the trainers were handmade by the co-founder of Nike, Bill Bowerman - who used a waffle iron to make the sole. So the shoes might cost more than your average house ...