Developed by adidas in the late 1970s/early 1980s as one of the ‘City’ series of shoes, the Dublin is included as part of the ‘Leisure’ category. The City models are interesting as they were a notable step away from performance shoes. With the leisure market particularly in mind, the colors adidas employed were extremely important, and this Dublin model exhibits the same silhouette, flat sole and color suede upper design commond to the ‘European Capital City’series. These sneakers were popular with the soccer-following public, too.