Written by Sean Ho
The Adidas Spezial line of shoes has always been very niche focus, and to those who know, really know how to appreciate the term behind the shoe more so than any other consumers. And the new SS19 SPZL collection brings fans back to the UK’s casual culture, a subculture formed from football fans of the 70s and 80s, one that practiced hooliganism and stole expensive designer clothes to wear to football matches.
The Adidas Spezial SS19 features a capsule collection from outerwear to sneakers, with the few key pieces being the Whalley Spezial sneakers and the Norfu Spezial silhouette. Coming in two colourways for the Whalley’s, a blue base with fluorescent three stripe branding, as for the other one it comes in red suede as a base colour with white three stripe branding. Both comes with a gum outsole, retaining the super classic look from the original archives.
Over on the apparel side, Adidas decided to bring back the vintage soccer jersey from the 80s. The Lymwoon Jersey is definitely one of my personal favourites from this drop. It features jacquard material with related Spezial mod motif all over, with a number ‘3’ on the back of the jersey. Another piece which is the hoodie comes in a pestle blue colourway made from heavyweight French Terry, a very premium cotton. The hoodie is finished with a Spezial box logo graphic on the chest.
This collection is set to release on the 8th of March at 10:00AM on adidas.com.my.
