Yeezy 700 sizing: adidas says true to size, the guides say half a size up

When the 700 Bright Blue was listed on adidas.com in 2024, the size note under it was short: “True to size. We recommend ordering your usual size.” Most of the sizing guides don’t agree, at least for the original 700. Farfetch, The Sole Supplier and SNKRDUNK all put the Wave Runner shape about half a size up.

The 700 isn’t one shoe, though. The V2 moved to a Primeknit upper, the V3 added an inner sock lining, and the MNVN swapped the laces for bungee. Each one moves the answer a little, and the guides don’t always land in the same place.

The original 700 runs about half a size small

The Wave Runner first sold as a Yeezy Supply pre-order in August 2017. The guides call that shape the V1, though adidas’s own listings, the Bright Blue’s included, just said Yeezy Boost 700.

Farfetch’s June 2022 guide, by Joseph Furness, put the 700 “between slightly small and true to size”, then let its contributors argue. Nathaniel Wiradiradja wears a 10 but didn’t buy one: he went to a 10.5. Aaron Roszko recommended half a size up “because of the narrow toe box”. Li-Anne Kuek called the toe box tight and shallow, and the whole shoe a lot more rigid than the 350 V2.

The Sole Supplier’s March 2022 guide got there faster: the Wave Runner fits a little tight, like the 350 V2, so buy half a size up. SNKRDUNK’s 2024 chart says the same for the V1. So if you’re a 10 in most runners, a 10.5 is the place to start, and the 350 V2 sizing guide works the same way.

What the big guides say, version by version

Version	adidas.com (2024)	Farfetch	The Sole Supplier	SNKRDUNK (2024)
700 V1 (Wave Runner shape)	True to size	Half size up (2022)	Half size up (2022)	Half size up
700 V2	True to size	True to size (2022)	Half size up (2022)	True to size
700 V3	No size note found	Half size up (2021), true to size for one contributor (2022)	Full size up (2021, 2022)	Not covered
700 MNVN	True to size	Half size up (2021)	Not covered	Not covered

adidas’s line was the same on the Bright Blue, a 700 V2 and the MNVN, so read it as the store’s default rather than a call on each shoe. The guides are the ones who’ve had the pairs on.

Wide feet and narrow ones

Wide feet push the call up. Farfetch’s guide says the 700 can feel snug on a wide foot, and Wiradiradja suggested a full size up for wide feet in the V1. Kuek’s comfort note cuts the other way: the shoe loosens a little with wear, so a snug pair on day one won’t stay that snug.

Narrow feet are the one case for staying put. The Sole Supplier thinks the Wave Runner’s toe box is a touch wider than the 350 V2’s, and says people with particularly narrow feet may prefer their true size. It also says most people still end up happiest half a size up. Farfetch’s contributors found the toe box narrow, so if you’ve struggled in 350s, don’t count on the 700 being roomier.

The V2, V3 and MNVN fit differently

• 700 V2. Farfetch’s Kuek and Roszko both stay true to size, because the Primeknit upper needs less padding and leaves more room at the toe. adidas’s listing and SNKRDUNK agree. The Sole Supplier is the outlier. It doesn’t split them, and says half up for the V1 and V2 alike.
• 700 V3. The tightest of the family. The Sole Supplier’s March 2021 guide says a full size up, and its staff explain why: one called the shoe “exceptionally tight”, another blamed the inner sock lining. Farfetch’s 2021 edition said half a size up, but in 2022 Chevonne Sprinine tried half up and went back to her true size. The V3’s origins are in the 2018 and 2019 samples.
• 700 MNVN. adidas sold it with a lightweight polyester upper, no-sew overlays and no-tie bungee laces, and called it true to size. John Alexander, in Farfetch’s 2021 edition, found it narrower and closer to the V3 than to the V1 or V2, and went half a size up.

If you’re between sizes

Go up in the V1 and the V3, and stay put in the V2. That’s where the guides cluster. It also fits what they say about the shoes: a rigid build on the V1, a sock liner on the V3, Primeknit with less padding on the V2. The MNVN is the genuine coin toss, with adidas on one side and a single, careful contributor on the other.

Ye wore the Wave Runner around Calabasas months before anyone could order a pair, as the Calabasas story and the 2017 samples show. Nobody was asking him what size he took.