adidas Wmns Forum Low 'White Black Gum'
Colorway: Cloud White/Core Black/Cream White · Style code: IG3967 · Release date: February 2, 2024 · Price: $236 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Adidas Wmns Forum Low 'Pastel' (GY9492) · adidas Wmns Forum Low 'White' (GX5061) · adidas Wmns Forum Low 'White Black' (GY9463) · Adidas Wmns Forum Low 'Wonder Taupe' (GZ9475) · Adidas Wmns Forum Low 'White Beige' (GX2174)
Suede is the variable here. Where most white Forums use smooth leather, this women's pair is built on a napped white upper that softens the silhouette's hard panel edges and takes light differently, reading grey in shadow. Core Black fills the serrated Three Stripes, the heel tab and the eyestay stitching, giving the shoe its only hard contrast. Underneath, the cupsole is finished in a warm cream rather than bright white, which is where the gum reference in the name comes from.
It went on sale on 2 February 2024 at 100 dollars, ten dollars under the leather women's pairs of the same season, and shared its release day with a sandy beige version of the same build. The ankle strap and the X-shaped overlay that anchors it are unchanged from the basketball original, as is the moulded heel. Suede does ask for more care than leather on a white shoe, but it is also what keeps this colourway from looking like every other white-on-white Forum in the range. The black-and-cream combination is deliberately old-looking, closer to a worn gym shoe than a fresh one.