By JACOB BROWN |
A pair of serious running shoes first entered my wardrobe last January, by accident. I’d left my gym bag at home and couldn’t be bothered to retrieve it preworkout. So midafternoon I found myself leaving a Champs Sports store in Times Square, wearing a new pair of Nike Free Run+ sneakers in black, with a red Swoosh and a white tread. The svelte silhouette had caught my eye. Light and easy to pack, the Frees got shoved in my suitcase a few weeks later when I headed to Europe for the men’s fashion shows. During an outfit panic in Milan, I made a gamble, pairing the shoes with a spring 2010 Prada suit; they looked good outside the gym. Soon I bought a pair of the updated Nike Free Run+ 2 and Lunar Glides (both in all black with a white tread). More recently I added Lunar Glides+ 3 (yellow tread with black upper, touch of aqua) and replaced my worn-out Frees. And my running followed, going from the treadmill to the road, from 3 miles to 10.
I’m not special: running and running shoes are cool right now. But a random fashion trend this is not. These latest shoes are a result of 40 years of sneaker culture, an eon of human evolution and the eureka moment of a track-and-field star turned Nike designer named Tobie Hatfield.
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