New Balance 574 Sport 'Brown'
Colorway: Brown/Brown · Style code: MS574CB · Price: $175 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: New Balance 574 Sport 'Outdoor Pack' (MS574AAB) · New Balance 574 Sport 'Flight Path - White' (MS574AGC) · New Balance 547 Sport 'Black Dark Blue' (MS574APB) · New Balance 574 Sport 'Tier 1' (MS574AW) · New Balance 574 Sport (MS574AWL)
Brown top to bottom, with nothing interrupting it. The Sport upper is smoother than the retro 574's, built from fewer cut pieces and fitted closer through the midfoot, and a one-colour treatment suits that kind of shape: no panel structure is asking to be picked out, so the shoe holds a form rather than a pattern. Brown is also the rarer pick on a performance-derived silhouette, which is most of why this version stands apart from the rest of the line.
New Balance priced the pair at $120. Underfoot is Fresh Foam, meaning a single moulded piece of foam carries the whole shoe rather than a soft core being ringed by a firmer polyurethane wedge at the heel. The Sport line arrived in 2017 as the brand's way of bringing the 574 forward without retiring it, and the split has held ever since: the original continues as a suede-and-mesh throwback, while this one behaves like a modern trainer that happens to share a number and a sidewall N with it.