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- Cut
- Low Top
- Upper
- Leather
- Colourway
- Smokey Mauve
Nike Dunk Low Smokey Mauve (W)
Nike Dunk Low Smokey Mauve (W)
- Cut
- Low Top
- Upper
- Leather
- Colourway
- Smokey Mauve
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Designed by Peter Moore and part of Nike's Dunk line. This release has a leather upper in Smokey Mauve/Playful Pink/White. The Dunk's second life has been driven almost entirely by colour names, and Smokey Mauve is one of the better ones: mauve is already a difficult, in-between shade, and smoking it down pushes it further into grey. The result is a purple that behaves like a neutral, which is a genuinely useful thing on a women's low top. Nike has been chasing this kind of subtlety since it had the market position to stop shouting, having held roughly half the US athletic shoe market by 1980 and gone public that year. A shoe like this is what that confidence eventually produces: a court silhouette in a colour no sports team would ever choose.
Look one: grey and cream, a grey wool trouser with a cream knit, where smoked mauve reads as the warm tone in an otherwise cool fit. Look two: black denim with a charcoal overshirt, letting the purple show only when the light catches it, which is the most flattering way to wear a shifting shade. Avoid bright pink or lilac clothing, which will expose the grey in the shoe and make it look washed out. Use a grey or cream sock rather than white. Matte muted finishes mark easily, so protect before first wear, keep the pair dry, and clean gently with mild soap on a soft brush rather than scrubbing.
Nike's court shoes became staples of mainstream American youth dress as the brand turned into a status symbol in urban and hip hop fashion from the 1980s, then reappeared through 1990s and 2000s casual and athleisure looks. Muted purples are where the silhouette went once it had to compete with clothing rather than with other sneakers, since they sit against wool, denim and cotton without demanding attention. The Swoosh, drawn by Carolyn Davidson and first used on 18 June 1971, is doing quiet work on a shade like this, keeping the shoe identifiably Nike when the colour gives nothing away.
Built on the women's last, this Dunk Low runs narrower through the heel and midfoot than the standard cut, with the model's usual low collar sitting below the ankle bone. The upper follows the Dunk's panelled layout, base, toe, Swoosh, eyestay, collar and heel, and a greyed purple relies on that blocking to show any contrast at all, since the shade shifts noticeably between artificial and natural light. Muted tones tend to be finished matte rather than glossy, which softens how creasing reads across the toe box. Underfoot the platform is flat and court-derived, in the traction lineage that starts with Bowerman pouring rubber into a waffle iron in pursuit of a lighter, grippier sole.
- Cut
- Low Top
- Upper
- Leather
- Colourway
- Smokey Mauve
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