Puma Suede Bloc 'White Silver Blue'
Colorway: White/Silver · Style code: 380705-06 · Release date: February 6, 2022 · Price: $2452 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Puma Suede Bloc 'White Yellow Pear' (380705-01) · Puma Suede Bloc 'White Amazon Green' (380705-02) · Puma Suede Bloc 'Black Ivory Glow' (380705-03) · Puma Suede Bloc 'White Dark Slate' (380705-04) · Puma Suede Bloc 'Black Ice Flow' (380705-05)
Metallic silver is the outlier in the Bloc series, the only accent in the set that is a finish rather than a flat colour. It sits against a white leather base, and the effect depends entirely on light: in shade the shoe reads as white on white, and in sun the silver panels separate sharply from everything around them. Puma priced the pair at 100 dollars and dated it February 6, 2022.
Metallic panels are a risk on a sport silhouette, since the wrong proportion turns a shoe into a novelty. Keeping the silver to the blocked sections rather than the full upper is what saves it here, and the white around it does the rest. The practical advantage over a coloured accent is that silver pairs with anything, with no clash risk against black, navy, grey or brown. The disadvantage is durability, because a metallic surface scuffs to a duller grey and does not recover the way dyed leather does. Worn carefully it stays sharp; worn hard, it ages faster than anything else in the series.