Hello Kitty x adidas Stan Smith J 'Embroidered Clouds'
Colorway: Cloud White/Grey One/Glow Blue · Style code: IF7022 · Release date: July 2024 · Price: $55 · Availability: Available now
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Sky blue and grey replace the pink most Hello Kitty sneakers lean on. This grade-school Stan Smith starts from Cloud White leather, adds Grey One as its secondary tone and Glow Blue as the accent, and works its cloud motif in embroidery, the detail the 'Embroidered Clouds' name refers to. Stitching rather than printing gives the clouds texture, and the pale palette keeps the character tie-in quiet: from across a room it is a white court shoe with cool-toned trim. It released in July 2024 at $85.
It belongs to the 2024 Hello Kitty and Friends kids' range, which adidas split by age: an infant version with a strap, a children's version with three hook-and-loop straps, and this laced grade-school version for roughly kids' sizes 3.5 to 7. The adult Hello Kitty Stan Smith launched in spring 2023 and a pink grade-school pair followed that July; this one returns to the same size run a year later. Construction follows the standard shoe: leather upper, three rows of perforations in the stripe positions, padded heel tab and a rubber cupsole. For a parent choosing between the grade-school Hello Kitty pairs, the difference from the pink 'Floral Beads' edition is simply palette; this is the cool-toned option in the same size run, and at $85 it came in slightly under that pair's $90.