The Samba is one of the hottest everyday sneakers in the world but it wasn’t always that way. Adidas’s perennial stalwart goes back to over 75 years, when it began its journey as an outdoor soccer shoe designs to tackle hard, icy pitches.

Since then, the Samba has ebbed and flowed with the times. Adidas has given the Samba more than one full-on redesigns, with the design we know today only arriving in the early ’70s.

The latest evolution stays true to that reimagined form. However, it retools some of the Samba’s various components to take it back to its early days as shoe born from the world’s most popular sport.

The Adidas Samba JP, available now, trades the OG’s suede overlays for stitching borrowed from the brand’s retro soccer cleats. Adidas

Pitch perfect

From afar, the Samba JP may look like your typical Samba: it has a simple leather upper, three contrasting stripes, and a flat rubber sole that even features Adidas’s signature 3-zone profile design underfoot.