As the first Air Jordans released after Jordan's second retirement, sharing a similarity to the Air Jordan IX in that Jordan never played professionally in the shoe. There was some skepticism as to their comfort. The tongue of the shoe stuck out to mimic Jordan's well known habit of sticking his tongue out while playing. The woven kevlar Jordan 15 was modeled after the fighter jet plane. This was supposed to be Tinker Hatfield's last Air Jordan (he later came back to design the Air Jordan XX) and is widely recognized as being somewhat of a failure in terms of performance and style.