Adidas Samba ADV 'Grey Blue'
Colorway: Grey Five/Cloud White/Blue Bird · Style code: H03362 · Price: $260 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: adidas Samba ADV 'Grey Four Cream' (HQ7541) · adidas Samba ADV Boot 'Grey Scarlet' (EG9387) · adidas Samba ADV 'Black Grey' (IH3348) · Adidas Samba ADV 'Black Grey' (IE3106) · adidas Samba ADV 'Dark Blue Grey' (JP8523)
adidas Skateboarding adapted the Samba into the ADV, adding support structures and harder-wearing materials so the shape could survive griptape. The changes are deliberately quiet. From a few feet away it is still a Samba, with the low collar, the T-shaped toe overlay and the three stripes, but the panels are reinforced where a skater's foot drags and the build is noticeably heavier than a general-release pair. Suede handles the upper, the standard material for skate footwear, with the colours listed as Grey Five, Cloud White and Blue Bird.
The United States price was 80 dollars, at the low end of anything adidas has charged for this model and typical of a skate line that holds a working price rather than a fashion one. Grey with a saturated blue is an unusual pairing here, since the family normally sells on cream, black, green or burgundy, and it reads closer to skate footwear from the 2000s than to the terrace look the Samba is tied to. For anyone buying one to genuinely wear hard, the ADV is the version worth knowing: the same silhouette with a build that expects abuse, priced under most of the fashion-facing makes in the line.