Onitsuka Tiger Tokuten Beige Tan

Tokuten is Japanese for score, and the name reads as a nod to where Onitsuka actually began: Kihachiro Onitsuka making basketball shoes in Kobe in 1949 for Japanese youth in the immediate post war years, choosing the tiger because he associated the animal with strength and agility. In Beige Tan the model comes in warm and quiet, a soft sand upper with tan tones through the panelling, which is not how court shoes usually announce themselves. That contrast is the whole idea. You are getting a silhouette with more volume and more presence than the Mexico 66, delivered in a colour that keeps it out of the gym and inside a wardrobe.