Puma Suede 'Layers - Deep Olive Warm Chestnut'
Colorway: Deep Forest/Warm Chestnut/Deep Olive · Style code: 387480-02 · Release date: December 17, 2022 · Price: $89 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Puma Suede 'Layers - Firecracker' (382966-01) · Puma Suede 'Layers - Black White' (381939-02) · Puma Suede Big Kid 'Layers' (387804-01) · Puma Suede 'Layers - New Heritage' (389974-01)
The Layers treatment gives this Suede a three-colour upper rather than the usual two, working through deep forest, warm chestnut and deep olive. All three are dark, and none sits far from the others, so the shoe reads as one muddied green-brown at a distance and separates into panels close up. Puma dated it December 17, 2022 and listed it at 80 dollars, ten above the plain Classic 21 of the same period. The material is the same nap leather the line has used from the start; what changes is how many pieces it is cut into.
A palette like this is built for the months it arrived in. Chestnut and olive are the two colours that sit most comfortably against wet-weather clothing, and the absence of white anywhere on the upper means the shoe does not advertise every scuff it picks up. That said, suede and December are an awkward pairing in most climates, so a protector spray is worth the ten minutes before the first wear. Where the brighter versions of this shoe ask to be noticed, this one behaves more like a boot inside an outfit: it anchors, it does not lead.