Oh yes, this can be a attractive looking shoe. The Adidas Archive Trimm Star trainers reissue inside a bold shade of purple.

This is really a Size exclusive, so no reason hunting around elsewhere for a pair. Well, perhaps eBay if you don't get lucky with this particular shoe, but nowhere else beyond that.

The Adidas Trimm Star is definitely an interesting shoe design too, not least how it came about. As you might know, the shoe's heritage goes back so far as the mid-1970s, taking its name from a German sports initiative created by the federal government to try and get people out of the house and getting healthy. I've no idea in the event that worked, but when there was a set of shoes like this inside it for me personally, I'd have been off the sofa and away from home in an instant.

Since then, the lightweight training shoe has turned into a sought-after item and reissues are pretty rare and always popular. Stating that, there is a reissue of the style in January, but in a far more subdued brown.

This time the color scheme is purple and green, apparently based on a colourway originally found on a Japanese rendition from the Athen, with the purple covering around the entire suede upper and tongue portion, matched with the green leather stripes and heel panel.

Outside of that you receive the minimalist shape, gold branding, a gum Eberswalder midsole unit and ghilly loops replacing the standard eyelets, meant to offer a righter fit during physical activity.

So that's the shoe, now we are down to price and availability. Well, the price is lb80 and the shoe is going to be available from Size? stores an internet-based from 8am on Friday 23rd February. So don't forget to set the alarm.