Adidas Forum 84 Low Cl Magic Beige

The Forum belongs to the stretch when adidas basketball still dictated what a court shoe looked like, the lineage that runs back through the Superstar of 1969 and its shell toe, worn by a reported 75 percent of NBA players by 1973. The 84 in the name points squarely at the mid eighties hardwood, when high collars, ankle straps and X shaped lace loops read as equipment rather than styling. The CL treatment strips that apparatus back to a low cut, and Magic Beige moves the shoe further from the gym: a soft sand tone across the whole upper instead of the usual white leather and team colour. What you get is the architecture of a basketball shoe delivered in a colour that behaves like a chino, quiet enough to wear daily and specific enough to be recognised on foot.