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title: "Adidas NMD City Sock (White, Gum)"
date: 2021-09-14T15:59:21-04:00
categories: [shoes, adidas]
tags: [nmd, white]
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![Adidas NMD City Sock [White, Gum]](/images/adidasnmdcitysockstock.jpg)

Balenciaga released the Speed Trainer to mass appeal in late 2016. They 
penetrated popular culture, even leading to a hip-hop shoutout from Cardi B, 
where she called them "(the shoe) that look like a sock". They quickly 
dominated many fashion circles, leading to a hypersaturation of textile-upper 
shoes that is probably killing the hype they once had, now almost seen with 
disdain, which is unfortunate, because conceptually, they were very 
interesting, as a jumped-to conclusion of the advent of the Yeezy Boost 350. 

Arguably what kicked-off this saturated movement was the "City Sock", an 
early variant of the Adidas Originals&trade; NMD, which already featured a 
knit upper. The City Sock took the NMD's design further by omitting the 
traditional expectation of laces, leaving only a knit with a heel counter 
attached to a sole. This particular colourway wasn't released until 2017, but 
the original was one of the first models available in March 2016, the first 
NMD release since its quiet debut in New York in December 2015.
