All in all, the shoe’s durability was below average. While the hype was high to skate these adidas Samba ADV’s up, we were a bit let down with the durability of the shoe. Read on below to see how they did during our weartest. We here at Weartested got our hands on a pair of the classic black white with gum sole Samba ADV’s and noticed immediately that the shoe’s silhouette didn’t change too much, which made us more curious to what technical elements were hidden inside. With this in mind, the subcultures of The Casuals and skaters today don’t seem too far apart, which is a no-brainer that adidas adapt the Samba’s technical elements to withstand the abuse from skateboarding. These sharp dressers would wear expensive two piece track suits from Stone Island and Lacoste, and fit themselves with an iconic pair of adidas Sambas.

This move from “function” to “fashion” can be dated back to the mid 70’s to the influence of England’s surviving football subculture, “The Casuals”, where smoking, drinking and fighting football hooligans would wear expensive designer clothing to avoid the attention of law enforcement as well as to intimidate rivals. This type of sales number didn’t just happen overnight originally designed as an indoor soccer shoe, the adidas Samba was well received initially by footballers but soon became a lifestyle shoe as well. The adidas Samba is the second highest selling adidas model, following after the adidas Stan Smith, with over 35 million pairs sold to date.

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