Green Feet

This year, your wardrobe may get a lit­tle greener.

New Bal­ance will re­lease an Ivy League edi­tion of its pop­u­lar H710 sneaker as part of its spring 2011 col­lec­tion, ac­cord­ing to EU Kicks. The shoes sport the col­ors of each Ivy ex­cept for Cor­nell and Yale. The tongues bear the logo of a par­tic­u­lar school while the sides, which are that school's color, have the fa­mil­iar N logo of New Bal­ance. The col­lec­tion will in­clude mid and low-cut ver­sions of the sneak­ers.

The price for the shoes is cur­rently listed as 7,460 Japan­ese yen, or roughly $90, on the site Mita Sneak­ers.

"Oh my gosh, I have to get them," Stu­art Ghafoor '14 said after hear­ing about them. "It sounds ridicu­lous. I can't be­lieve they're ac­tu­ally mak­ing them."

The com­pany hasn't an­nounced an of­fi­cial re­lease date in the United States, but the shoes are ex­pected to ar­rive in Japan­ese re­tail­ers in Feb­ru­ary, ac­cord­ing to the web­site SneakerObsession.​com.

Japan, in par­tic­u­lar, has had a fash­ion ob­ses­sion with the Ivy League since the 1970s, when the "all-Amer­i­can preppy style" was im­ported into the county, ac­cord­ing to The New York Times. The trend has made a come­back re­cently, thanks to the In­ter­net.