New Balance’s material choices are rarely expected, as they’ve put seemingly every skin, hair or fur on their various silhouettes. For these 575s, horse hair was chosen, accompanying leather and suede on the uppers.

Thanks to a heads-up from Daily Drop, these are now available for only $49, down from the original $150 price tag. The shoe uses dark colors throughout, mixing black and dark brown. They also rest on a black sole with white speckles on the heel half. If you recall, we saw pony hair on a New Balance 757 not too long ago, though they used white leather and tan hair.

Click here to weigh in on these. Are they thoroughbreds?

Each of the three make use of suede, leather, and mesh uppers along with boot style laces. Little accents of metallic silver leather and hits of reflective 3M add more cosmetic interest as well.

The New Balance 575 Trail set will be available in November and December at New Balance dealers for $75. Click here to check out pics of each of the shoes after the break.

While it was black pony hair used in the aforementioned collection, this Newbie uses tan hair over a white premium leather upper. That’s pretty much all there is to these, with the exception of the light splatter graphics on the heel, and the leather laces, which look like they took inspiration from horse reins to keep in theme with the hair.

For those that are interested, these are now available at atmos Japan. How do these stack up against other NB’s we’ve seen before, or even other sneakers that use pony hair?

The Staple x New Balance 575 “White Pigeon” was easily the most highly anticipated New Balance sneaker of the year so far. It remains to be seen what else New Balance will surprise us with for the rest of 2009; however, photos of three New Balance 575 models, set to release in the spring of 2010, have surfaced on the web.

The most notable of the three seems to be the colorway shown at the forefront of this picture. It features a vibrant aqua, black and grey color scheme with the predominance of the aqua shade seen on the suede sections. The remaining two pair feature a black/yellow-blue colorway and a grey/blue colorway, respectively. As stated earlier, all three sneakers are scheduled to release in the spring of 2010. Click here to view additional photos.

The Staple x New Balance 575 “White Pigeon” had heads lined up literally around the globe last week when the shoes release on August 18th at only a handful of retailers.  The shoes are now available at Reed Space and open to phone orders if you are still on the hunt for a pair.  Give them a call or pop into their shop.

Reed Space
151 Orchard St
New York, NY 10002
212.253.0588

Currently the release date is set for 8/18 limited for 1,000 pairs.  Stay tuned for more information as we get closer to the release.