New Balance 2002r Protection Pack Mirage Grey

The Protection Pack is New Balance's most self aware idea: take a shoe from the running archive and build it as if it needed to survive something. Mirage Grey is the right colour for it, a cool mid grey with a haze to it that keeps the shoe reading as equipment rather than as fashion. The 2002R sits in the running derived part of the catalogue, downstream of a company that has been solving foot problems since 1906, when William J Riley started the New Balance Arch Support Company near Boston. Grey is the house colour, the shade the 990 family made into a default, so a pack built around durability lands most naturally in exactly this tone rather than in a bright one.