Styles · An idea under Athleisure
Retro runners for men
Low profile trainers, vintage track silhouettes, and trail runners.
Retro runners are running shoes from past decades, or new versions of them: low profile trainers in suede, canvas and leather, in white, grey, cream, blue and green. Wear them with wide trousers, heavy cotton socks and boxy coats.
New Balance began in the Boston area in nineteen oh six making arch supports, and in nineteen sixty it made the Trackster, the first running shoe sold in different widths. ASICS, founded in Kobe in Japan in nineteen forty nine, put its Gel cushioning into running shoes in nineteen eighty six, and the Gel Kayano followed in nineteen ninety three. Song for the Mute, a Sydney label, has made trainers with Adidas, among them a reworked Tokyo that looks back to low profile gym shoes.
Utopia in Toronto brings New Balance, ASICS, Nike and Jordan pairs, many of them collaborations and some pre owned. WDLT117 in Toronto brings Song for the Mute and Wales Bonner trainers made with Adidas, and Due West in Toronto brings Adidas x Wales Bonner Sambas.
