The Goadome Low Foam Follows the Foamdome by a Day, and Nike Gave Them Different Names

Nike puts the Goadome Low Foam into SNKRS on November 6 in Metallic Gold, Black and Cargo Khaki under style code IV7693-700. It lands one day after the Air Max Foamdome boot, which this site covered last week, and the two shoes are the same idea cut to two different heights. Nike has given them different names. On the low it has also quietly dropped the three letters that explain where the platform came from in the first place.

The Air Max Goadome arrived in 2000, built for ACG, and it was built to answer something specific. Timberland’s 6-inch boot owned winter in American cities, and Nike’s reply was a leather boot on a lugged rubber outsole with full-length visible Air Max cushioning under it, which is a sneaker company solving a boot company’s problem with the parts it already had. The Foamposite shell is three years older. It came out of a 1997 manufacturing experiment in which liquid urethane went into a mold and came back as an upper with no panels and almost no seams. Nike married the two ideas in 2008 in a shoe called the Air Foamdome and retro’d that pairing in Eggplant in 2016 under style code 843749-500. None of that is new, which matters, because when designer Frank Cooke previewed a low-top version in June the feeds ran it as Nike combining two silhouettes for the first time and this site corrected it then. The new part was never the combination. It was the height, and cutting a winter boot down to an ankle changes who it is for more than a colorway ever does.

Which brings up the color, where Nike cannot agree with itself. The Nike.com listing for IV7693-700 describes synthetic leather overlays in Metallic Silver. The SNKRS listing for the same style code calls the same overlays Metallic Gold. The official colorway string sides with SNKRS and reads Metallic Gold, Black and Cargo Khaki. The press photographs show neither one flatly. The molded shell is iridescent, reading olive green through the forefoot and shifting to a warm bronze at the toe and around the heel as the angle changes, which is closer to a petrol finish than to either metal Nike named. Under it the upper is black leather, and the shell carries the rippled relief lines that mark a Foamposite rather than a printed pattern. Seen from above the pair reads almost entirely black, with the shift confined to the vamp and the toe, so most of what makes this colorway worth the money is invisible to the person wearing it.

The tooling is where the argument is. The midsole carries ACG in raised letters on the lateral side, the outsole repeats it at the heel, and the lug pattern underneath is a real hiking tread rather than a styling exercise, with the Air unit left exposed in a window cut through the midsole wall. So the shoe says ACG twice in places a buyer will see every time they put it on, and says it nowhere on the box. Other Goadome releases this year have carried ACG in the product name, including the croc-embossed Low from October. This one is listed as Nike Goadome Low Foam SP and nothing else, and the only Nike marks on the upper are a small Swoosh at the toe and the branding on the tongue.

Nike is now selling one platform under four names. There is the Air Max Goadome, the Air Max Goadome Low, the Air Max Foamdome and now the Goadome Low Foam, and three of those have shipped inside six weeks. Read generously, that is a sub-line being widened past the ACG label so it can be merchandised as general Sportswear instead of as outdoor gear, which is where the volume is. Read less generously, nobody owns the naming. The practical cost is the same either way. A buyer looking at the boot on November 5 and the low on November 6 gets no name that tells them these are relatives, and the one word that would have connected them is molded into the sole of the shoe Nike left it off.

Retail is $200, which puts the low $65 under the Foamdome boot it follows by a day and level with the Air Max 95 Big Bubble Lux entering SNKRS on the same morning. The Air Jordan 6 “White Infrared” the following day runs $215. For a shoe carrying a molded Foamposite shell, full-length Max Air and a boot outsole, that is priced as a normal premium SNKRS release rather than as the collector object the Foamposite name usually drags along behind it.

The Nike Goadome Low Foam releases November 6 at 7 a.m. Pacific on SNKRS, with a wider listing at Nike. Style code is IV7693-700, the official colorway is Metallic Gold/Black/Cargo Khaki, and retail is $200. Nike has it flagged with a one-pair limit, so expect a draw rather than a straight release.

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