Object Details
- designer
- Burnside, Cara-Beth
- Whitehead, Cindy
- Vans, Inc.
- Description (Brief)
- Cara-Beth Burnside pro model skate shoes worn by pro skater Cindy Whitehead. The shoes are white canvas with a white suede Vans side swoosh and white laces. There is a light blue sunburst with "CB" embroidered on the heel and Cara-Beth's signature is printed on the inside of the shoe. They have a brown gum sole with blue and white edges as Burnside preferred a gum sole shoe and wanted it to be a feature on her pro models. These Vans are the first pro model shoe designed by a woman skateboarder and to be sold exclusively to girls.
- Cara-Beth Burnside was a pro skater in the 1980s often competing against men because there were no contests for women at the time. She was the first woman to be featured on the cover of Thrasher Magazine and used her influence to convince the people at Vans that a girl skate shoe would sell. Skeptical at first, the Cara-Beth model became one of the most popular model shoes in 1999.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1999
- ID Number
- 2022.0067.01
- accession number
- 2022.0067
- catalog number
- 2022.0067.01
- Object Name
- shoes, skateboarding
- Physical Description
- canvas (overall material)
- suede (overall material)
- leather (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 in x 4 in x 5 in; 25.4 cm x 10.16 cm x 12.7 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Sports & Leisure
- National Museum of American History
- name of sport
- skateboarding
- level of sport
- Professional
- web subject
- Women
- Record ID
- nmah_2015241
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng406d13e2e-6c50-47e0-a3be-35efb51b841c
