While the Cole Haan GrandPro Tennis Sneakers are designed as tennis shoes, don’t expect to see them in the feet of your favorite players at the ATP tour any time soon. For all intents and purposes, they’re more everyday kicks than technical tennis sneakers. Do expect to catch them on the feet of your friends who can appreciate the finer style points of an all-white leather tennis shoe, though, especially for the more relaxed days of dressing casually throughout spring and summer.
Embracing the classic lines of 70s-era tennis shoes, the footwear offers a nice addition to the growing list of choices in vintage tennis silhouettes, bringing a styling and overall aesthetic that should help it blend with outfits even better than your well-worn pair of all-white Stan Smiths. Seriously, this thing looks cool, whether you’re wearing it with slim pants, board shorts, or a folded-up wide leg trouser that’s bound to end up in your closet before the summer is over.
The Cole Haan GrandPro’s main selling point is its light weight, tipping the scales at a mere 8.8 oz. That puts it at around two-thirds the heft of regular tennis shoes, courtesy of the outfit’s weight-shaving Grand.OS technology. Features include a smooth leather upper, suede lining, textile-covered footbed for breathable performance, EVA outsole, rubber pods in the heel and forefoot for better traction, and tonal stitching. Aside from the all-white colorway, it comes in four other styles, just in case you have enough all-white sneakers from the trend’s 2014 heyday to last you till the 2020 presidential elections.
Available now, the Cole Haan GrandPro is priced at $130.