Adidas NMD_R1 V3 J 'White Solar Red'
Colorway: Cloud White/Cloud White/Solar Red · Style code: GX2034 · Release date: August 15, 2022 · Price: $77 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: adidas NMD_R1 V3 'adiClub' (HQ9838) · Adidas Wmns NMD_R1 V3 'Grey' (GY9283) · Adidas Wmns NMD_R1 V3 'Purple' (FZ6139) · Adidas NMD R1 V3 Sneakers (GX9587) · Adidas NMD R1 V3 Sneakers (GX9586)
White is the hardest base for a kids' shoe and the easiest for an accent to work against, and this V3 uses both facts. Cloud White fills the textile upper and continues into the midsole, so the shoe reads as one pale mass, and Solar Red is dropped in at a handful of points where it registers immediately against that ground.
The V3 designation matters mostly to what the upper is made of: this generation of the model was reworked around recycled polyester and plastic content, a change in material story rather than in look. Underneath, the Boost midsole and the moulded inserts in its sidewall are carried over intact, as is the collar that pulls on like a sock. The pair released on August 15, 2022 in grade-school sizing at $140. The tab at the heel doubles as the entry point on a shoe with no fastening beyond its laces, and the segmented rubber outsole is unchanged from the adult build.