adidas Wmns Sambae 'Putty Mauve'
Colorway: Putty Mauve/Preloved Brown/Clear Pink · Style code: ID3737 · Release date: December 15, 2023 · Price: $95 · Availability: Available now
Height is the whole difference. The Sambae keeps the Samba's upper pattern, its suede toe overlay and its three stripes, then sets all of it on a raised sole that lifts the wearer and changes the proportions of the toe box. This pair uses a full leather upper in a muted range adidas names Putty Mauve, Preloved Brown and Clear Pink, a softer register than the black-and-white and green-and-white combinations that carry most of the line. It was cut for the women's size run and sold only there.
The release date was 15 December 2023, at 110 dollars in the United States. Sambae arrived while the Samba was in the middle of its strongest commercial run in years, and adidas used it to hold on to customers who liked the shape but wanted more sole under it, the same logic that produced the Samba Rose and its textured platform in 2018. Practically, the lift changes how the shoe wears: the flat, ground-hugging feel inherited from the model's football origins gives way to a slight rake and a stiffer ride. Warm, low-contrast colour choices like this one lean into that reframing, treating the Samba as a shoe to style rather than a trainer to wear out.