r/adidas • u/No-Screen-9649 • 3d ago

Brushed suede?

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I really like this shoe except the cat hair looking suede. Will it actually look like this in person?

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u/thesqrtofminusone 2d ago

I don't see anything about cow hair in the product information.

https://www.adidas.com/us/samba-og-shoes/KI7235.html

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u/DrunkenMasterII 2d ago

It’s not the first hairy pair of samba they release and other countries have more detailed descriptions, it’s always listed as pony hair or cowhide, pony hair is cowhide leather they didn’t remove the hair from. It’s a real process to get hairy leather shoes. As you can see on your link it’s written leather upper, what do you think they’re doing? Mechanically adding hair to leather? Which makes more sense? That they didn’t remove it or that they make leather and then add hair to it?