Yeezy 350 V2 sizing: why the guides say go half a size up

Take your usual size in a 350 V2 and plenty of people will tell you it’s tight across the toes. The V2 runs about half a size small. Stadium Goods, Farfetch and SNKRDUNK all say so. None of them tells V2 owners to stay in their usual size.

The half size isn’t the whole answer, though. Wide feet, thick socks, a knit that gives over time and four variants that don’t all follow the same rule can change the call.

Half a size up, and who says so

Stadium Goods put it plainly in its October 2022 guide: the V2 “fits small”, so size up half a size from your normal sneaker size. Farfetch’s January 2022 guide doesn’t disagree, and SNKRDUNK’s April 2024 Yeezy guide puts most Yeezys about half a size small, with a true 10 better off in a 10.5.

So if you wear a 10 in most runners, a 10.5 is the place to start. Stadium Goods doesn’t single out a colourway. It applies that to the V2 as a whole. Every 350 sits on a full Boost midsole, and every V2 but the Mono has a Primeknit upper.

Wide feet and thick socks

The tight spot is the front of the shoe. One of Farfetch’s contributors called the toe box “awfully narrow” and suggested a full size up for wide feet. They didn’t think most people need that much.

SNKRDUNK adds a socks rule: if you wear thick ones, go up half a size. That’s on top of where you’d normally land, so a wide foot in heavy socks can end up a full size over its usual.

The knit gives

The upper isn’t fixed. Farfetch and SNKRDUNK both note that the Primeknit stretches with wear, so a pair that’s snug on day one loosens up. That’s why some people stay at their true size and live with a few tight weeks.

Farfetch printed that view too. Two of its contributors wear the V2 in their normal size, and one takes the insole out for extra room. If you like a close fit and your feet aren’t wide, that’s a reasonable way to go. If you’re buying for comfort straight out of the box, take the half size.

The V1, Mono, MX and CMPCT

Not every 350 follows the V2 rule.

• 350 V1 (2015). Stadium Goods and Farfetch both say it’s true to size. The full V1 story is in Turtle Dove and Pirate Black.
• 350 V2 Mono. It swapped the knit for a see-through monofilament mesh, the only 350 without Primeknit. Stadium Goods still says half a size up.
• 350 V2 MX. The marbled knit, like the MX Dark Salt. Half a size up, per Stadium Goods. More on that run in the 350 V2 after the adidas split.
• 350 V2 CMPCT. The exception. Stadium Goods says the extra padding and different knit mean you should take your normal size.

If you’re between sizes

Go with the bigger one. Every guide that gives a direction points up, the knit only ever loosens, and a little extra length is easier to live with than a narrow toe box. The one shoe in the family where that’s wrong is the CMPCT.

Farfetch’s own contributors couldn’t agree between true size and half up. The guide still landed on half up, and Stadium Goods got there without the argument.