adidas Wmns Stan Smith 'Tactile Rose'
Colorway: Footwear White/Tactile Rose/Footwear White · Style code: EF9319 · Release date: July 8, 2019 · Price: $2632 · Availability: Available now
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Soft pink against white: this women's Stan Smith keeps the leather upper and perforated stripe rows of the standard shoe and uses Tactile Rose, a muted pink from adidas's colour range, in place of the green accents. adidas released it on July 8, 2019, at $130 as a women's exclusive, alongside two other pastel Stan Smith colourways in a three-shoe set. The rubber cupsole stays white, so the pink reads as trim rather than a full colour change, and the shoe holds the clean, low profile that lets it pass as a plain white sneaker from a few steps away.
The date also says something about how it was built. This is a 2019 leather pair, made in the window between the January 2014 relaunch and the 2021 move to a Primegreen recycled upper, so it has the smooth leather construction the shoe was known for during its second run. Stan Smith's sketched portrait sits on the tongue label, the heel tab is padded, and the three rows of perforations replace external stripes on each side. Pastel women's editions like this one changed the colour without touching the silhouette, and Tactile Rose is one of the gentler entries: pink enough to register, quiet enough to wear with anything.