It wasnโ€™t but four months ago that I said I was doneโ€”โ€œDONE I TELL YOU,โ€ I shouted like a teenager with a broken caps lock keyโ€”groveling at the feet of shoe companies for free coffee- (or avocado toast)-inspired sneakers. But like the Simone Biles of not-sticking-to-my-guns that I am, Iโ€™ve done a full-on tucked triple double flip-flop (and stuck the landing) thanks to these Cafรฉ du Monde-inspired Sauconys. And I would like it very much if someone gave me a pair, thank you.

Designed by Sneaker Politics, a sneaker boutique based in New Orleansโ€™ French Quarter not but a half mile from the world famous Cafรฉ du Monde, the limited release shoe takes the Saucony Shadow 5000 and gives it a beignet-keover with two different colorways: โ€œBeignet Brownโ€ and โ€œPowdered Sugar.โ€ According to Hypebeast, the Beignet Brown โ€œfeatures a three-tone brown suede leather and mesh upper, detailed with white flecks mimicking the powdered sugar sitting atop the delicacy.โ€ The Powdered Sugar features a white suede and mesh and a powdered tan upper. Both colorways receive a pop of color from the green soles, โ€œa nod to Cafรฉ du Mondeโ€™s iconic green and white awnings,โ€ per NOLA.com, as well as the perfect green Cafรฉ du Monde in green script on the tongue.

And if you needed just an extra just *mwah* chefโ€™s kiss to really set the whole thing off, โ€œthe sneaker box looks like the goddamn beignet mix,โ€ as one Sprudge editor so succinctly described it in our covetous Slack chat.

But if you were hoping to get your hands, or your feet I guess, on either version of the Cafรฉ du Monde Shadow 5000, your ability to do so has a one-to-one relationship with your knack for being in New Orleans on June 22nd at precisely 11:00am CST. The extremely limited releasesโ€”like less than 200 of each colorwayโ€”will pretty much only be available at the New Orleans Sneaker Politics location. According to NOLA.com, โ€œa few hundred will go out to stores nationwide,โ€ but I wouldnโ€™t hold out much hope of getting any of those.

The Saucony Cafรฉ du Monde Shadow 5000 retail for $120 and $125 for the Beignet Brown and Powdered Sugar colorways, respectively, but you can go ahead and assume a significant multiplier will be added to that once these hit the secondary market.

So Iโ€™m just going to throw this out there one more time, should anyone want to send a pair of size 10 Saucony Cafรฉ du Monde Shadow 5000s to me, preferably in Beignet Brown but I will gladly update my entire wardrobe to make the Powdered Sugars work too, I wonโ€™t say no.

Zac Cadwaladerย is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.ย Read more Zac Cadwaladerย on Sprudge.

Top image via Hypebeast

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