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adidas Turns the Handball Spezial Into a Loafer, This Time in Office-Ready Olive Suede

adidas and Beauty & Youth United Arrows team up on an olive suede Handball Spezial loafer, keeping the sneaker's original upper silhouette and rubber outsole. Priced at ¥15,400, it's exclusive to adidas Japan's online store.

Taylor Wu, Style Director
adidas Turns the Handball Spezial Into a Loafer, This Time in Office-Ready Olive Suede

adidas has already run the Handball Spezial silhouette through animal print and full-leather formal treatments, but olive suede is one colorway that's never made an appearance—until now.

This exclusive drop from Beauty & Youth United Arrows features a suede upper in a deep, muted olive green. The napped texture of the suede paired with that shade gives the shoe more visual weight than your standard office shoe, without tipping into stiff or overly formal territory.

The silhouette itself hasn't been reworked. It retains the Handball Spezial's inherently dressier upper lines, along with the clean rubber outsole from the original sneaker version. In other words, this shoe looks like a loafer on top but rides on sneaker underpinnings below—and that's exactly what sets it apart from your typical commuter dress shoe.

Combine that rare colorway with the model's built-in sneaker DNA, and you get a formal loafer with more standout appeal than most others in its category.

This olive Handball Spezial loafer is available exclusively through Beauty & Youth's official website, priced at ¥15,400 (roughly $97 USD). Whether it'll land in Taiwan and an exact release date remain unconfirmed at this time.

adidas Turns the Handball Spezial Into a Loafer, This Time in Office-Ready Olive Suede

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