Most impressive to me is that the suede has held up well and resisted stains. With these at the flexpoint of the shoe, that can really be expected. After being pulled out of the closet 100 times, the only real area of wear apart from the outsole is some loose threads on the orange stitching. Overall, the materials have held up incredibly well. The designer threw some hits of teal here and there as well. Of course, Adidas couldn’t help themselves, and added another green. The density of the strands changes in different areas of the midsole, creating a variety of patterns depending on where you look at the midsole.įinally, the outsole rocks a mostly black 80’s inspired pattern. The 4D midsole, again in a different shade of green, is made of thousands of small individual strands. Inside, the bottom of that tongue is a bright orange, a color that is shared with the insole. The laces – a third green somewhere between the other two – runs through a grey faux leather panel with the shoe’s name at the bottom and alternate over the teal tongue before reaching a grey panel with the Adidas Originals logo at the top. The rear of the shoe features a stiff panel that curves back away from your foot. The only real adidas branding is the cloudy three stripes logo along the side. In between the blue panels, a mint green and blue primeknit pattern makes up the majority of the rest of the upper, broken up by grey padded areas along the heel. Moving back to the midfoot, bule suede panels run along the eyelets and frame the majority of the upper, where it features the wavy ZX Logo that Adidas has used on various ZX models.

Starting at the toe, you have a tighter-knit neon green primeknit upper, flanked on the interior side with a blue primeknit panel and on the exterior by a suede panel – held on with orange stitching – at the flex point. With the various options now available with this sole, is this something that can be a successor to Boost? Or should Adidas go back to the drawing board to find what’s next?Īs crazy as the 4D sole is, the upper is what you notice first on the Adidas ZX-4000. Attached to the sole we’ve seen running-style uppers, ultraboost-style uppers, collaborations, and 80’s inspired uppers such as the one seen here. Three years later, Adidas hasn’t found a way to get the custom-made products into our hands, but 4D has become far more available using normal methods. Instead, you would be able to go into an Adidas store and have a shoe custom made for the contours of your foot, made while you waited. Initially released in very limited numbers and in extremely limited sizing, Adidas said that 4D was the end of needing different tooling for every sole. Unfortunately, this left Adidas in a tough position: what do you do next? How do you build upon something that changed the industry? The answer was the introduction of what Adidas calls “4D”. Further, there was a time when anything with boost sold out in minutes. Boost is comfortable, and everyone agreed it looked wild when it first came out.

Cons: Too expensive at MSRP, Odd shaped lastĪdidas’ Boost technology was completely revolutionary.

Pros: Nails the 80’s retrofuturism design, Great support after some wears.

Ultraboost 4d on feet