Adidas UltraBoost 4.0 'Black True Green'
Colorway: Core Black/True Green/Gold Metallic · Style code: EE3733 · Release date: December 6, 2018 · Price: $1165 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: adidas UltraBoost 4.0 'Orca' (G28965) · adidas UltraBoost 4.0 'Anniversary' (BB6220) · adidas UltraBoost 4.0 'Carbon' (CM8116) · Adidas UltraBoost 4.0 'Triple Black' (FW5712) · adidas UltraBoost 4.0 'Core Black' (BB6166)
Four versions in, the UltraBoost had settled. The fourth kept the cage, the heel counter, the Boost midsole and the stretchy outsole of the version before it and changed the knit, giving the upper a neater ribbed texture with contrasting patterns worked into the toe, tongue and heel as a callback to the original 2015 shoe. Reviewers noted, not unkindly, that very little else moved. That stability is much of why the model succeeded: by this point the shoe had escaped running entirely and become a default lifestyle sneaker, bought for the foam's comfort and worn with no intention of running in it. The known drawback is that the white foam yellows with age, which matters more on a shoe sold on appearance than on one sold on performance. This version is core black with a true green accent and gold metallic detailing, released at the end of 2018: a darker, more wearable make-up than the pale colourways the line is usually pictured in.