Puma Suede Vintage 'Blue Coral Yellow Alert'
Colorway: Blue Coral/Yellow Alert/Gum · Style code: 374921-17 · Release date: December 18, 2021 · Price: $122 · Availability: Available now
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Retro detailing and a gum outsole define the Vintage version of this shoe, and this pair runs blue coral across the upper with yellow alert as the accent, a combination with roughly zero subtlety. The gum bottom warms both colours and keeps the shoe from looking like a modern release in period clothing. Puma dated it December 18, 2021 and listed it at 90 dollars, twenty above a standard Classic 21 from the same stretch.
Bright blue with a yellow accent is a 1970s sports palette, which suits a retro build better than it would a contemporary one. Gum rubber is the element that ties it together: it takes the edge off both colours and gives the shoe a warmer base than white rubber can. It also darkens as it wears, so the contrast softens over time instead of turning grubby. The premium over a standard pair buys detailing rather than a different material, since the upper is the same brushed hide. Blue is also among the easier colours to keep, showing neither the dust that settles on black nor the stains that ruin cream.