adidas Wmns UltraBoost 1.0 'Double Black'
Colorway: Core Black/Core Black/Cloud White · Style code: HQ4206 · Release date: January 2, 2023 · Price: $51 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Adidas Wmns UltraBoost 1.0 'OG' (B27172) · adidas Wmns UltraBoost 1.0 'Snakeskin' (ID4373) · adidas Wmns UltraBoost 1.0 'Leopard' (JR5844) · adidas Wmns UltraBoost 1.0 'Wonder Orchid' (ID9680) · Adidas Wmns UltraBoost 1.0 'Core Black' (S77514)
There is nothing to read on this one except surface. Core Black covers the Primeknit, the midfoot cage, the heel counter and the Boost midsole, and Cloud White appears only at the outsole edge and in the smallest branding. Because the foam is dyed rather than left in its natural off-white, the shoe loses the visual break that usually separates upper from sole, and the silhouette reads as one continuous shape.
The women's 1.0 is the original February 2015 pattern rebuilt, which means a knit sock upper, a plastic cage threaded through the laces to lock the arch, and a full-length Boost unit. It sold for $180 on January 2, 2023, the base price for the silhouette that season and below the $200 that team and collaboration versions carried. A fully blacked-out knit also hides the creasing and dirt that pale uppers show within a week, which is most of the practical argument for the colourway.