NCAA x adidas Forum Low 'Washington 2025'
Colorway: Purple/Cream/White · Style code: HQ7474 · Price: $117 · Availability: Available now
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Purple is one of the University of Washington's two school colours, and this Forum Low is built almost entirely around it. The suede upper is saturated purple, cream fills the serrated Three Stripes and the midsole sidewall, and white finishes the outsole. Leaving the school's gold out is a deliberate edit, and it is what makes the shoe wearable as a purple sneaker rather than as a uniform piece.
It belongs to adidas's NCAA Forum series, which puts school colours on the basketball model rather than on a modern performance shoe, a reasonable fit given where the silhouette started. The shoe lists at 120 dollars. Suede is the material, which suits a saturated purple better than leather does, since the nap keeps the colour from looking plastic and gives the panels visible depth. The adjustable ankle strap and the X-shaped overlay behind it are unchanged, as is the cupsole with its wedge heel. Washington's athletics programme is based in Seattle and competes in the Big Ten, and the cream trim reads as a nod to an older uniform rather than a current one.