ASIC GEL LYTE 3 “KIMONO DENIM” 👘👖

Tei Hipster
3 min readApr 23, 2016

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-Hands on- The combination of Denim and Kimono sneaker.

A S I C G E L Y T E 3

Jeans sneaker?

It’s not often to see the sneakers with denim upper but not for this special edition for Asic Gel Lyte 3 and following with codename Kimono. It’s easy to see the contrast between the denim and kimono fabrics the merging of two different eras in Japanese history, while making for an extremely attractive colorway coz I don’t see much the Kimono style on sneakers. It comes with 2 ropes, one is the denim colour and another one is the mixed of yellow-red which is smaller but more visible.

Solid indigo wash to offset the kimono accents on the red neoprene mesh.

Another one of this model unique is the split tongue. Surprisingly, it’s a bit small for its regular size. It runs quite narrow than other brands. And I’m not sure about the denim look, weather it will be faded in the future or not.

credit : http://www.freshnessmag.com/2015/08/15/asics-gel-lyte-iii-kimono/

Rope laces and a two-tone red and yellow, made it oustanding from navy jeans look. Another shoelaces is flat navy with wax I guess. The colour is the same of shoes, so if you don’t want to get more attention, this shoelaces may be good in this case.

Kimono & denim texture represent the sense of Japan

It’s considered as a comfortable shoes because it’s perfect fit to your feet if you like the running shoes and have a narrow feet. Or else highly recommend wear 0.5–1.0 size up if you want a more space inside or have a wide feet. Myself usually wears 9 US for Nike and it’s not comfortable with Asics with the same size at all. For the pricing, it’s around 180–220 USD at that time which is in the normal range of Asics or other brands.

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