New Balance Wmns 574 'Wheat Field'
Colorway: Wheat Field/White · Style code: WL574FV2 · Release date: May 5, 2022 · Price: $2482 · 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)
Wheat field is a dry, slightly greened tan, the colour of a crop late in the season rather than the orange tan sneakers usually get. On this women's 574 it runs across the suede overlays and the panels behind them, so the upper holds one tone from toe to heel, and white is reserved for the sidewall N, the midsole and the laces. The narrowness of the palette is what marks it as a spring release: two colours, no third accent, nothing dark.
New Balance released the pair on May 5, 2022 at $85. Under the tan, the shoe is the same one the brand has built for more than three decades, with ENCAP at the heel, soft foam ringed by stiffer polyurethane, and rubber running up over the front of the shoe because the original was meant for ground that was not flat. Tonal tan has become one of the safest positions in the 574 catalogue for a practical reason rather than an aesthetic one: suede in a mid tan neither shows dust the way white does nor looks scuffed the way a dark nap does.