Puma Wmns Suede Platform SD 'Oatmeal'
Colorway: Oatmeal/Gold · Style code: 364718-01 · Release date: March 2020 · Price: $2482 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Puma Wmns Suede Platform 'Elderberry' (362223-11) · Puma Wmns Suede Platform 'Gem' (367452-03) · Puma Wmns Suede Platform Core (363559-05) · Puma Wmns Suede Platform 'Gem' (367452-01) · Puma Wmns Suede Platform 'Gold' (362222-02)
Oatmeal is a pale, faintly grey beige, and on a platform sole it gives this women's Suede a near-neutral look that the line's brighter pairs avoid entirely. Gold is the second colour, used sparingly against the beige rather than across it. Puma put the pair out in March 2020 at 110 dollars, which made it one of the pricier shoes in the women's range at a time when a flat-soled pair sat between 70 and 80.
Beige brushed leather on a thick sole was one of the defining sneaker looks of the period, and this landed at the end of that run rather than the start of it. The advantage of the shade is range: oatmeal sits between white and tan, so it works against black, navy, cream and indigo without the harshness a true white brings. The disadvantage is obvious, since pale nap marks easily and a raised midsole picks up grime along its edge faster than a low one does. Treated and brushed, it holds its colour; ignored, it ages fast. The gold trim is what keeps the pair from reading as purely casual.