Nike and Carhartt WIP last built shoes together in 2018, when four Nike classics came back wrapped in 12-ounce Dearborn canvas and sold through fast. The reunion lands on a boot this time. Carhartt WIP has taken ACG’s Air Max Goadome, cut it low, and rebuilt the upper with a canvas side panel, metal D-ring eyelets, rope laces and a bronze Swoosh stitched into the tongue.
Three colorways, $190 a pair, on sale Thursday at Carhartt WIP. The green one stays home.
A 2000 boot wearing a workwear upper
The Goadome first showed up in 2000 as an ACG boot: tall, lugged, built around a big visible Air unit in the heel. The low version keeps that tooling untouched, so the chunky rubber outsole, the heel cushioning and the ACG stamp in the midsole all carry over as they were. What changes is everything you see above the midsole line.
Carhartt WIP built the redesigned upper around Nike’s archival Half Dome, and the giveaway is the sidewall, where a stitched canvas panel cuts through the overlays instead of running leather all the way down. Canvas breathes where leather cannot, and it scuffs into colors of its own. Give it a season of wear and the panel will not match the overlays anymore. That fade is the point of buying workwear materials in the first place.
Metal D-ring eyelets replace the standard eyelets, and the laces turn to rope. Stitching doubles up along the foxing, a small Carhartt Script label sits at the heel, and the Swoosh on the quarter goes metallic.
Nothing on Carhartt WIP’s page claims waterproofing, and the materials explain why. Canvas and leather shrug off a drizzle and soak through in a storm. There is no membrane in the spec, no sealed anything, so save this pair for dry days and keep a real rain boot by the door for the wet weeks.
Three colorways, two sets of names
Cypress is the green pair, style code IW6306-300, and it is the one Carhartt WIP keeps for itself. Leather overlays sit over a black canvas panel, the hardware runs black to match, and the only bright note on the shoe is the bronze Swoosh stitched over W-I-P lettering on the tongue.
Green has been Carhartt’s workwear color for decades, long before it was a fashion color. Of the three pairs, this is the one still signaling collaboration in five years, when the black pair has blended into every other black boot on the street.
WIP Hamilton Brown, IW6306-200, is the most Carhartt pair here: suede overlays, a Cypress canvas panel, brass D-rings.
Black, IW6306-001, keeps the leather overlays and the black canvas panel, then slips Cypress in at the collar and in the tongue embroidery. It is the quietest pair of the three. It is also the one I would bet on surviving the most winters of actual wear.
Nike calls the same three pairs Twilight Marsh, Light British Tan and Black on its own channels, which tells you something about how the two brands think. Carhartt WIP names colors after its own workwear fabrics and dyes. Nike names them after weather and landscape. Same shoes, same style codes, two vocabularies, so search by the code when you hunt across both stores.
The clothes carry half the drop
Six apparel pieces land the same morning, and they are not filler around the shoes. A Windrunner x Active Jacket anchors the set, folding Nike’s chevron jacket into the work silhouette Carhartt WIP built its name on. A Windrunner x Drewe Pant borrows the Double Knee’s reinforced front panel.
A hooded sweatshirt in heavyweight brushed cotton, a graphic tee, a waffle long-sleeve and a beanie round out the six, all cut looser than Nike’s usual athletic fit. The palette stays in workwear colors: WIP H Brown and Black with Cypress running through it.
Select pieces carry a pale Fleur de Sel highlight, and some garments are pigment-dyed, landing pre-faded like a work jacket after a year. Nothing screams collaboration until you are close enough to read the labels.
None of the clothing follows the shoes to SNKRS, so the jacket and the pants are a Thursday errand at Carhartt WIP’s own stores, site and app, or not at all. Miss the morning and you are shopping the resale listings for a work jacket, which is a sentence nobody should have to live.
Thursday first, SNKRS second
Carhartt WIP opens sales Thursday, November 12 at 10am ET, 7am PT, across the US, Canada and Mexico, online, in stores and in the app. Pairs are limited to one per customer. Sizing is unisex, listed in combined men’s and women’s sizes from a men’s 4.5 / women’s 6, and every pair ships in a co-branded box with co-branded tissue inside.
Eight days later, SNKRS and select retailers get the Black and WIP Hamilton Brown pairs. Cypress stays home.
The standard boot skips the line
If the silhouette is the appeal and the collaboration is not, the standard Air Max Goadome Low in black is sitting on Amazon today. You get the same lugged tooling and the same heel Air under an all-leather upper, style code IR2174-001, with none of the canvas or hardware.
Amazon had it at $139.18 with free delivery when we checked today, $50.82 under the collaboration’s price. Fifty dollars buys the canvas panel, the D-rings and your pick of the three colors. That is the whole decision, priced out.
Price: $139.18
Where to buy: Amazon
My call: Cypress is the pair to chase on Thursday, because it is the only one with a closing window. WIP Hamilton Brown is the pair I would end up wearing most, the one that goes with everything in my closet. And if your size disappears before you clear checkout, take the standard boot at $139.18 and skip the sulking. It is the same boot, minus the story, the only part built to fade.
