Adidas Forum Mid J 'White Ambient Sky'
Colorway: White/Grey One/Ambient Sky · Style code: H04422 · Release date: July 16, 2021 · Price: $2602 · Availability: Available now
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White leather carries this grade-school Forum Mid, with Grey One filling the overlays and a soft Ambient Sky blue reserved for the serrated Three Stripes and the heel tab. It is a three-tone scheme that works in order of loudness: white for the bulk, grey for the structure, blue for the accents. Leather rather than synthetic on a kids shoe is worth noting, since adidas usually saves the real material for adult sizes at this price point. It released on 16 July 2021 at 85 dollars.
2021 was the year adidas pushed the Forum hardest after bringing it back through Originals, and the mid-cut got as much catalogue space as the low. The collar stops just above the ankle bone, the hook-and-loop strap runs across the instep, and the cupsole underneath keeps the wedge-shaped heel that gives the model its slightly forward stance. On junior sizing the strap is the fastest way in and out, which is generally why the mid outsells the high in this tier. The pale blue also keeps the shoe from reading as a uniform white sneaker, without committing to a colour that dates.