Kanye’s next adidas shoe was the yeezy boost 350, a low top counterpart to the already insanely popular high top. To be straight forward, I like this shoe. At first I didn’t, and maybe it’s due to the hype, but now I really like this guy.
The sole is close to the same as the high, but for some reason works much better on this silhouette than it does on the high. I think this shoe lends it self to a much more athleasure aesthetic where the other one is a luxury sneaker/sneaker boot, and I think this works well with the athletic feel of the boost sole. the uppers are made of Adidas’s Prime-knit, a knock off of Nike’s flyknit, an innovation Kanye made popular while with nike. Adidas doesnt do prime knit nearly as well as nike does flyknit, they basically create knitted materials and then cut and sow. Nike knits the shoe to the exact specifications, and glues the knitted upper to the sole. It mainly utilizes recycled material and its waste is about 10 inches worth of string, rather than the old figure of %30 of materials go unused/thrown away. Anyway, adidas prime knit is very elastic, and lends itself well to the slip on no tongue aesthetic of the 350 boost. I don't understand the large stitches through the center of the font of the shoe, but something about it matches well with the thickness of the rope laces and the material used for the heal tab. I think the material around the color looks cheap and cheesy, but also somewhat goes with those other elements. I’d be interested in seeing a one piece upper without the stitches and material around the collar, ironically I think the shoe would look worse, but I could be wrong. Take off the laces and the heel tab too. it would be interesting. The pattern on the upper is cool and i appreciate that its consistent from model to model. I think it works best with the tonal colors, rather than the black on grey. I think the grey/black (turtle dove) color way is hands down the worst, as large hits of black (not shown in the above picture) look out of place when combined with small hits of read and two colors on the upper that don't flow too seamlessly together. The black pair is amazing, and the dark grey on black with extremely small red hits works incredibly well. My favorite is the “moon rock” color way. The greenish grey landed during a time where rogue green was the color of the moment and fit so perfectly on the shoe. the shades of grey green and slightly darker grey/green looked premium atop a sole that matched perfectly. additionally, this color way was really original, as I haven't seen colors like that on any model of any other company’s shoes. They oxford tan was a little too yellow/brownish for me, and reminded me of the “wheat” collection that nike puts together every fall. I think the color works well with the shoe and theres nothing on it that doesn’t flow, but it doesn’t hold up against the black and moon rock colors. More than anything else the shoe is super wearable and looks really comfortable. They pretty much all fetch 1200, which is again a ridiculous number, especially seeing of all the Yeezy’s this one was released in the highest quantity.
