Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Vans skateboarding shoe is blue and white checked with a dark blue suede toe and eyestay. The trademark sidestripe is white leather along with the shoe midsoles, the sole is the trademark deep tan, waffle pattern. Paul and Jim Van Doren, along with partners Gordon Lee and Serge Delia opened the Van Doren Rubber Company in 1966, manufacturing shoes and selling them directly to the public. Vans uses a vulcanized shoe making process where the rubber outsoles are heated and stretched onto the “lasted upper” of the shoe before the rubber is completely cured. The entire shoe is then heated to over 300 degrees. This process creates a ‘sticky’ sole popular with skaters for ensuring a good contact surface with their board. Using pro skaters to design their shoes, producing pro skater models and creating the trademark “sidestripe” recognizable around the world, Vans became the shoe of choice for a generation of skaters and grew into an international enterprise in just 50 years.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1960s
- 1970s
- ID Number
- 2016.0351.04
- accession number
- 2016.0351
- catalog number
- 2016.0351.04
- Object Name
- skateboarding shoe
- Physical Description
- leather (overall material)
- fabric, canvas (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 28.575 cm x 10.795 cm x 11.43 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Sports & Leisure
- National Museum of American History
- name of sport
- skateboarding
- web subject
- Manufacturing
- level of sport
- recreational
- Record ID
- nmah_1826266
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-e68f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
