New Balance 574 "Retro Surf"

Colorway: Gunmetal · Style code: ML574BSG · Release date: September 9, 2019 · Lowest resale ask: $280 · Availability: Available now

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About the New Balance 574 "Retro Surf"

Retro Surf is the pack this belongs to, but the colour does not follow the name. Gunmetal is a dark grey with a cool, faintly metallic cast, nearer to a tool than to a shoreline, and it runs across the whole upper with no second tone to break it up. Dark greys are difficult on this shoe, because the model relies on its seams for definition and a deep shade hides them; what rescues this pair is the way light catches the raised edges of the overlays.

New Balance released it on September 9, 2019 at $80. The heel unit is Encap, soft EVA wrapped in a firmer polyurethane rim, the same piece the shoe has carried since it was drawn as the budget option inside a 500 series meant for running off-road. Pack names on this model are mostly a merchandising device, a way of putting four or five colourways out together and giving shops a story to hang them on, and they rarely change anything physical. What does change is the shade, and a single dark grey is among the quietest positions this silhouette takes.

Written with AI from brand specs; facts checked against our catalog data on Sep 18, 2026.