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During its pre-order limbo we grew to love this adidas release even more than we did before. Since last summer Originals have been dropping some colourful treats for fans of the Superstar into their ranges without any hype or excessive announcement. This is still our favourite incarnation of the shelltoe (salutes to all of those tireless shoe weirdos who pushed this silhouette through) and we're getting the kinds of colourways that might have given us seizures if we'd spotted them in one of the many defunct grey-marketing and deadstock peddling stores who helped carve the nation's sneaker landscape and speckled our fair capital city back in the early '90s.

We think that their ability to evoke a time before everything became so damned familiar is what makes us love pieces like this (other than a current preoccupation with yellow adidas shoes). We're frequently surprised that a Superstar can still get our pulses racing, but the suede, shade of yellow, white stripes and contrast between toe and upper maintains a certain power. Never underestimate the power of a silhouette that spent so much time out our reach in its perfect form. These are in the store now...