New Balance 725 Off White

Released on 7 November 2021 and part of the 725 line. This release has a mesh upper in Eclipse/Indigo. Off White on a New Balance is a deliberately awkward choice, and that is what makes the 725 worth reading. This is a house whose reputation was built on grey, on the runner nobody photographed, on the shoe you bought because your feet hurt. Off White pushes the 725 out of that camouflage and into something closer to a clean leather trainer, the kind of shape that reads as smart rather than sporty. The company that made it started in 1906 as an arch support maker outside Boston and only later became a shoe brand, and it has been privately held under Jim Davis since 1972, which is the reason its catalogue keeps odd numbers like 725 alive instead of collapsing everything into a handful of hero silhouettes. The code ML725Q is the whole identification you need.