adidas Wmns UltraBoost 1.0 'Putty Mauve'
Colorway: Putty Mauve/Wonder White/Wonder White · Style code: ID5881 · Release date: July 2023 · Price: $278 · 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)
Mauve is a hard colour to place, sitting between grey, brown and pink, and adidas used it here as the whole upper rather than as an accent. The Primeknit reads putty in flat light and turns faintly rose under warm light. Wonder White, an off-white with a cream cast, handles the midfoot cage, the heel counter and the midsole, so the contrast stays gentle across the entire shoe. Nothing on the pair is a true black or a true white.
This is the women's cut of the reissued 1.0, the pattern adidas first sold in February 2015 and has rebuilt repeatedly since. Under the knit is the full-length Boost unit, foam made by steaming thermoplastic polyurethane into pellets and fusing them, a process adidas developed with the chemical maker BASF before putting it into running shoes in 2013. It arrived in July 2023 at $190, in line with other women's 1.0 colourways that season rather than at a collaboration premium.