Puma Wmns Suede Classic 'Dark Dreams'
Colorway: Black/Elektro Purple · Style code: 380624-01 · Release date: March 9, 2021 · Price: $2482 · Availability: Available now
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Dark from the sole up, this women's Suede Classic uses Elektro Purple as its only deviation from black. Upper and tooling are both rendered in the same dark shade, which flattens the shoe into a single mass and leaves the purple to do all of the signalling. Puma put it out on March 9, 2021 at 70 dollars, the standard price for the women's Classic that season. Dark Dreams is the name attached to the pairing.
One bright accent on a blacked-out upper is among the oldest tricks in sneaker design, and it works here because the base is nap rather than smooth leather. Brushed surfaces eat light, so the purple looks stronger against them than it would on anything glossy. In practice this is the easiest kind of colourway to own: black covers everything, and the accent is small enough that nothing else in an outfit has to match it. It also survives a spring of wet pavements better than a pale pair would, which is the season it launched into. For anyone who likes the shape but not the two-tone contrast most versions carry, this is the quiet option with a pulse.