Puma Wmns Suede 'Jewel Metallic'
Colorway: Puma Black-Puma Black · Style code: 366725-01 · Release date: December 10, 2018 · Price: $145 · Availability: Available now
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Puma's Jewel Metallic reading of the women's Suede goes fully tonal, with the colour code listing Puma Black twice and no second shade anywhere on the shoe. Everything separating it from a plain black pair sits in the finish rather than in the palette, which is an unusual way to build a colourway on a model that normally trades on contrast. It went on sale December 10, 2018 at 95 dollars.
Black is the most durable colour brushed leather comes in, and that matters more on a December release than on a summer one, because winter buying means winter wearing. Marks that would show as pale scars on a tan or grey upper mostly vanish here, and the pile can be brushed back into shape instead of cleaned. The 95 dollar price sat above the standard women's pair of that period, a premium paid for the treatment rather than for a collaborator's name. Worn with black trousers the shoe more or less vanishes; worn with indigo or a pale coat it becomes the sharp end of a shape most people know in white and gum.