Adidas Wmns Stan Smith 'Off White Halo Blue'
Colorway: Off White/Halo Blue/Halo Blue · Style code: IE0461 · Release date: October 27, 2023 · Price: $2482 · Availability: Available now
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Halo Blue is a pale blue, and on this women's Stan Smith it takes both of the secondary colour slots, listed as Off White/Halo Blue/Halo Blue. The leather upper is Off White rather than bright white, which keeps the contrast with the blue gentle instead of sharp. Everything structural is the standard shoe: perforated rows where the stripes would be, a low cupsole, a padded heel tab, and the sketched portrait on the tongue. What changes is the mood: green on white is the tennis-club version, and blue on cream is quieter and less tied to the court.
The pair released October 27, 2023, at $100, in women's sizes. It arrived under two months before a companion women's release in Wonder White and Halo Blush, which took the same soft approach in a warmer direction, and together the two give the late-2023 range a cool option and a warm one, each on a softened white leather. Neither pair changes the shoe beyond colour, which is standard Stan Smith practice: the tennis shoe named for the 1971 US Open and 1972 Wimbledon champion is at heart a white canvas with one accent, and here the accent is blue.