New Balance Wmns 574
Colorway: Grey/Purple · Style code: WL574CPG · Release date: 2023 · 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)
Grey does the volume and lavender does the accenting. The upper combines mesh panels with suede overlays, the standard 574 recipe, and the purple is used sparingly enough that the shoe still reads grey from across a room. The sidewall N is drawn large on this model, as it has been since the 1980s, and further New Balance marks sit at the heel and on the tongue.
Underfoot the midsole is a layered foam unit over a rubber outsole, deep enough to give the women's 574 the stacked look that carried the model back into fashion rotation. The shoe has no nickname and no release story attached to it, which is normal for the bulk of this line; New Balance runs dozens of colour variations a year against one fixed pattern. This version listed at $90 in 2023. Lavender over grey is a particular kind of choice, a shade with enough saturation to register in a photograph but not enough to fight with what it is worn against, and on a silhouette this heavily seamed it stays an accent rather than taking over.