New Balance 1906l Black Suede

Designed by Charlotte Lee and part of New Balance's 1906L line. This release has a suede upper in Black. Black suede on the 1906L is the most direct way New Balance has of saying this is not a sports shoe. The 1906L takes the brand's Y2K running architecture and flattens it into a lower, dressier stance, and finishing it in black suede finishes the argument, because suede belongs to shoemaking rather than to performance. There is a logic to New Balance ending up here. The company began in 1906 as the New Balance Arch Support Company, serving people who stood all day, and a low, soft, supportive shoe in a serious material is arguably a truer descendant of that brief than anything with a foam stack.