{"id":60310,"date":"2022-11-11T14:06:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T06:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/?p=60310"},"modified":"2022-11-11T17:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T09:23:45","slug":"new-balance-2002r-toast-is-more-hot-than-toasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2022\/11\/11\/new-balance-2002r-toast-is-more-hot-than-toasty\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Balance 2002R \u201cToast\u201d Is More Hot Than Toasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There&#8217;s a time and place for everything, as evident in New Balance 2002R&#8217;s history. It originally debuted in the 2010s but it almost disappeared as fast as it came. Deemed too expensive and underappreciated at the time, but with the market&#8217;s evolving palate and with some well-timed collaborations, the high-end runner is experiencing a resurgence, and NB struck while the iron was hot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Helped by some well-executed general releases, the inertia will likely last awhile, especially with the arrival of this new &#8220;Toast&#8221; colorway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The pair arrives in a tonal, uniform brown with a multi-material mix construction of leather and suede. The former making up the base layers with the latter taking up plenty of real estate. This high-quality arrangements of materials more than compensates for the pair&#8217;s lack of color variance, elevating it above its contemporaries nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Further stretching this disparity is the leather lining that suggests a more unique fit overtime with wear. Underfoot lies the sole unit borrowed from the 860v2, arriving in off-white to complement the luxe, classy makeup of the upper it&#8217;s supporting.<\/p>\n<p>A release date in North America hasn&#8217;t been disclosed by New Balance but the pair has seen a release in select overseas boutiques.<\/p>\n<p>In other sneaker-related news, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2022\/11\/11\/hender-scheme-x-the-north-face-marks-their-final-chapter-with-fw22\/?slide=right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hender Scheme x The North Face Fall\/Winter 2022<\/a> collection that includes two pairs of some cozy-looking footwear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/snkrdunk_int\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22285 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy.webp\" alt=\"Magazine-Bottom-Banner\" width=\"970\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy.webp 970w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy-300x93.webp 300w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy-768x238.webp 768w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy-282x87.webp 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a time and place for everything, as evident in New Balance 2002R&#8217;s history. It originally debuted in the 2010s but it almost disappeared as fast as it came. Deemed too expensive and underappreciated at the time, but with the market&#8217;s evolving palate and with some well-timed collaborations, the high-end runner is experiencing a resurgence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":60311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21,18,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brands","category-calendar","category-latest-news","category-new-balance","category-releases"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60310"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60582,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60310\/revisions\/60582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}