Adidas Forum Low J 'Triple White'
Colorway: Cloud White/Cloud White/Cloud White · Style code: FY7989 · Release date: April 29, 2021 · Price: $46 · Availability: Available now
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Sixty dollars is the story. Released on 29 April 2021, this junior Forum Low was the cheapest way into the silhouette during the stretch when adidas was reintroducing it across every size tier at once. The saving comes from the upper, a synthetic rather than leather, which on a single-colour shoe is hard to spot: everything is Cloud White, from the toe cap to the ankle strap to the rubber cupsole, so texture is the only thing distinguishing panel from panel.
adidas had brought the Forum back through Originals the year before, and grade-school sizing was part of pushing the shoe well beyond the adults who remembered it. What the junior version keeps is everything structural: the fastening band over the midfoot, the crossed side panel behind it, the punched toe, the stiffened heel and the lift built into the back of the cupsole. The original 1984 run was a basketball shoe, and nothing in a sixty dollar kids pair pretends otherwise, but the shape here is a faithful scale-down rather than a simplified copy, which is more than most of the price tier manages.