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Adidas Adilette 22 Slides Clear Grey
Adidas Adilette 22 Slides Clear Grey
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Origin
Part of the Adilette 22 line. This release has a synthetic upper in Clear Grey/Clear Grey/Clear Grey. Clear grey is the coolest, palest finish the Adilette 22 comes in, and on a slide built around a sculpted, almost geological footbed the light tone matters more than it would on a flat sandal. Shadow is what makes this shape readable, and a pale grey shows every ridge and hollow that a dark colour would swallow. adidas sells slides in enormous volume because they solve a real problem for anyone who plays sport, trains or travels, and the 22 is the version where the brand decided the solution should also be a piece of industrial design rather than a strip of foam.
Utility
Two clear uses. Post training or post pool, straight onto wet feet with shorts, where the moulded surface dries in seconds and nothing absorbs water. Or as an everyday warm weather shoe with wide grey or black trousers, where the pale sole reads as deliberate rather than functional. It also earns its place in a travel bag for hotel corridors and airport queues. Moulded slides run large, so size down if you are between. Rinse with water and mild soap, dry in shade rather than direct sun, and keep them away from car dashboards and radiators, since heat permanently warps a moulded footbed.
Influence
adidas is a sponsor of athletes at the very top of their sports, Lionel Messi, David Beckham and James Harden among them, and slides are the least glamorous, most universally used piece of equipment in that world. Every dressing room and every training ground runs on them. The 22 takes that unglamorous object and gives it the sculptural treatment adidas usually reserves for its engineering projects, the same appetite that produced the adidas 1 in 2005 with a microprocessor adjusting cushioning five million times a second. Slides sit under the three angled bars introduced in 1997 rather than under the Trefoil, which is the company telling you this is equipment.
Construction
One piece moulded construction: strap, footbed and midsole formed as a single unit with no stitching, lining or glued overlays to fail. The footbed is contoured rather than flat, so it cradles the arch and holds the foot without a heel strap, which is why it stays on better than a traditional pool slide. The Three Stripes are cut into the strap as part of the mould. A pale grey surface shows dirt from studio floors, changing rooms and streets far more readily than a dark one, but it also cleans up completely with water and mild soap because there is no fabric anywhere to absorb a stain.




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