New Balance 530 Steel Grey

Released on 21 January 2021 and part of New Balance's 530 line. This release has a mesh upper in Steel Grey/Silver/White/Navy. Steel Grey is the 530 in its most utilitarian register, a cooler and harder grey than the softer washes the model usually wears, and it suits a shoe that was never meant to be precious. The 530 belongs to New Balance's 1990s running output, the mid-priced end of the range where volume shoes were built to be run in and replaced. What makes those shoes worth revisiting is the same thing that made them worth buying then, which is fit. New Balance came out of the arch support trade it started in 1906, and it is still the brand that sells widths because supporting a foot properly was the original business, not a feature added later.