Adidas München

If you start a City Series collection with one shoe, this is the sensible one. Introduced in 1976 as an indoor training shoe and named after the Bavarian capital, the München quickly won the respect of the casuals, and its super suede upper put it near the top of every wish list. The version people argue about is not the 1976 original, which had a chunky white sole, but the early 1980s Made in Japan pair with a gum sole. Recent reissues lean on that Japanese release, brown suede included, so the shoe you can buy now is closer to the one collectors chase than to the first one off the line. Worth knowing before anyone tells you yours is not the real thing.