[einzigartig adidas]

Interesting, ok, now we're starting to get somewhere. Hopefully lorre doesn't mind but here's an image he took of a Boston Super FTR... how does this fit into the FTR scheme then?

[ez-1]

And that has absolutely nothing in common with supes and PM's I know.

[Lurkzilla]

In court FTR means for the record

[einzigartig adidas]

Yup, I know the For The Record meaning, not sure that's the same here... ez-1 what are you saying? That you think the acronym means something different depending on which model it's applied to? Now that would be confusing!!!

[vox]

On Sportie LA they refer to it as "FTR leather", meaning a type of leather, but I can't find any explanation for the abbrevation.

FTR's

[ez-1]

Probably not but looking at Superstar FTR, Pro Model FTR and Boston Super FTR only the first two have similarities. Only thing I can see is that dark leather in the back of the BS looks similar.

Did a quick image search and found Forum Lo FTR's and they also looks like SS and PM. Mainly black on black but with contrast stitching.

Maybe in BS it stands for the color way?

[einzigartig adidas]

Hmmm I've seen BS's in other colorways such as "Loam/Black/Fango" that still say FTR. I'm leaning heavily on it being the type of leather, but the types of leather I know of are like full-grain, top-grain, etc.

Words like full-grain and tumbled come to mind... but tumbled doesn't explain these at all... :/

[ez-1]

http://www.all-about-leather.co.uk/what-...-types.htm

[einzigartig adidas]

Yup I saw that and was reading it but still make sense of the FTR...

[einzigartig adidas]

So rethinking this... maybe it's not an acronym after all. If CLR means "clear", CRK means "cracked", and WD means "wide", then maybe FTR is also a single word with the vowels removed...

"Feature"? But that would normally be like "feat."...