Release Info:
Retail Price: $225
Size Run: Men’s
Colorway: “Rumba Red”
Style Code: M997END
Region: Global Shipping
Purchase: END. (App raffle)
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Initial Impressions and Predictions:
The Shoe
The UK-based retailer END. has found itself on the winning end (no pun intended) of a few hot collabs with New Balance in 2019, but none bigger than its upcoming holiday release.
This time around their silhouette of choice will be the “Made in the USA” New Balance 997. This is a retro lifestyle shoe with running shoe roots. Not only is this a stylish choice, but functional choice, as well. The New Balance 997 is one of the most comfortable shoes on the market and has been one of New Balance’s best selling silhouettes for quite some time.
Adorning the upper of the “Persian Rug” will be New Balance’s normal combination of premium materials such as suede, mesh, and leather. As far as the colors used on the shoe, Rumba Red dominates the shoe’s upper, but there are nicely placed hits of beige, and blue hues located around the shoe as well.
“This is a retro-inspired lifestyle shoe with running shoe roots that makes it not only a stylish choice, but functional choice, as well.”
Release and Resell Predictions
END. distributes all of it hyped sneakers via their online raffle system which will be open for this shoe until December 13, 2019.
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It should go without saying that sneaker will sellout immediately. This easily one of New Balance’s hottest drops of the year and New Balance 997 fans will be eager to get their hands on a pair.
If the latest Aimé Leon Doré x New Balance drop provided us any insights as to how this sneaker might perform on the resell market, you can expect these to have some resell value.
The margins won’t be great, be there should be a chance a small profits.
