New Balance Xc-72 Black Moonbeam

Released on 13 November 2021 and part of the XC-72 line. This release has a suede upper in Black/Moonbeam. The XC-72 is a shoe about a year rather than about a model. In 1972 a 28 year old Jim Davis bought New Balance when it had six employees making around thirty pairs a day, sold mostly by mail order, and the company that grew from that point built itself on domestic manufacturing and technical fit. The XC-72 reaches back into the cross country and road racing shapes of that era, low and narrow and flat, then rebuilds them with a curved sole and a stance that could only be current. Black Moonbeam gives it the sharpest possible reading, a black upper cut against a pale off white sole so the silhouette shows as outline rather than as detail.