Adidas Wmns Forum Bold 'Off White Preloved Blue'
Colorway: Supplier Colour/Cloud White/Preloved Blue · Style code: IF3623 · Release date: March 3, 2024 · Price: $1870 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Adidas Wmns Forum Bold Stripes 'Quartz Bold Gold' (IE4775) · Adidas Wmns Forum Bold 'Grey' (GW9122) · Adidas Wmns Forum Bold 'Python' (HQ1985) · Adidas Wmns Forum Bold 'Bliss' (GW9123) · Adidas Wmns Forum Bold 'Embroidered Trefoils' (H05116)
Preloved Blue is adidas's name for a washed-out denim shade, and it is the only real colour on this platform low-top. The rest is off-white leather with Cloud White through the sole and laces, so the blue lands on the serrated Three Stripes and the heel tab and stops there. Faded blues are difficult on smooth leather, because the material holds colour evenly while a washed tone wants to look uneven, which is why it is used as an accent here rather than across the upper.
Forum Bold raises the shoe on a thickened cupsole, adding height at the heel and lengthening the profile, and the model's ankle strap is kept above it. It released on 3 March 2024 at 110 dollars, the same day and price as a cream suede version with enlarged stripes. Leather is the harder-wearing of the two materials adidas uses across this tier and the better match for an off-white base, since it wipes clean where suede has to be brushed. Blue and off-white is also one of the few Forum pairings that works equally well in summer and winter, which is rarer in this range than it should be.