Most air trainers ask you to build an outfit around them. The colourways are too loud, the profile too aggressive, or the tooling too specific to whatever sport they were originally designed for. Useful on a track. Less useful when you’re wearing them three days a week with everything from tailored trousers to weekend denim.

These are different. We’ve been looking specifically at air cushioned trainers that carry the technology and the construction quality without demanding all the attention in the room. Clean uppers, considered colourways, and silhouettes that sit well whether the trouser hem is cropped or sitting on top of the shoe. White, grey, navy, the occasional earthy tone. Nothing that makes you plan your whole morning around it.

The air unit still matters. Comfort over the course of a full day is a genuine differentiator and you feel it by early afternoon. We just think you shouldn’t have to sacrifice versatility to get it. These trainers don’t make that trade.