New Balance Wmns 574+ 'Turtledove Vintage Teal'
Colorway: Turtledove/Vintage Teal/Sea Salt · Style code: WL574ZKB · Release date: 2023 · Price: $2632 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: New Balance Wmns 574 'Sea Salt Real Pink' (WL5742BA) · New Balance Wmns 574 'Pink Sugar' (WL5742BB) · New Balance Wmns 574 'Reflection Spring Sky' (WL5742BC) · New Balance Wmns 574 Rugged 'Angora Granite' (WL574AA2) · New Balance Wmns 574 'Bright Lavender' (WL574AG2)
Three neutrals and one cool note. Turtledove is New Balance's warm pale grey, close to a dove tone without the blue; sea salt is the off-white running alongside it; vintage teal, dulled and slightly green, is the only saturated colour on the shoe. All three arrive on suede, so they go matte together, and the panel seams rather than the colour changes do most of the work defining the shape.
This is the 574+, the version that sits on a raised, stacked midsole instead of the standard unit, so the sidewall is deeper and the sole steps out visibly past the upper. The ENCAP heel is still in there, a soft EVA core inside a firm polyurethane rim, just carried higher off the ground. New Balance priced it at $100 in 2023, ten to twenty dollars above the flat-soled women's 574s of the same period, which is roughly what the extra foam costs. The shoe underneath is unchanged from the model Steven Smith put together out of a 576 upper and a 577 sole as a value build for New Balance's off-road 500 series.