Edit: Yeah it's definitely Van DOren not Van DorEN... 😅 Hope y'all can look past that blunder, thanks for tuning in !!

Being a poor skater kid in the late 80s, all I wanted was a pair of Hi Top vans. My mom saved and got me a blue pair for my birthday. After just a few weeks, I wore the sole down from skating so much, I developed a hole under my big toe. I was so ashamed that I didn't tell my mom. Walking to school in the middle of winter suuuuuucked.

Even if you dont skate, the SKATE collection is definitely better made and more comfortable. Recommend over the normal line.

My entire casual sneaker line up consists of chucks and vans. They last a good amount of time and are practically timeless in their designs

I'll always have a soft spot for Vans shoes. They were a big part of my teenage years, skating the neighborhood and getting into trouble...they always served me well and the price was always affordable.

I rarely skate nowadays, but I have been wearing vans forever. They fit me very well and now that I don’t tear them up nearly as much, they last quite a while and are much cheaper than other shoes with styles I like. Definitely an interesting story!

I'm a professional drummer. Had never tried Vans until I was on tour last year, learning to skateboard at 39 years old. one of my friends on the tour bought me a pair and they're pretty much the only shoes I've had on my feet since. Absolutely awesome to drum in.

I’m a really fan of Vans Slip ons. As a flat footed person, I love how comfy Vans is. Also I lover their designs and collabs. Their shoes are so easy to match with.

Vans shoe traction is another level experience after only wearing dress, running or basketball shoes. It may look simple but if you buy many vans shoes you will realize the details in traction design these guys perfected over the years

As someone who has suffered from severe plantar fascitis for more than a year and seriously thought his walking-without-pain days were over, I run from that kind of disposable shoes as if the devil where breathing on my neck. With careful planning I was able to buy quality (and yes, expensive) shoes through the years and I now have a full set of very classic, very comfortable shoes that allows me to change them every day and let them dry thoroughly before wearing them again. As a curiosity, ballerinas get through more ballet shoes than even a skateboarder does. And those are expensive, usually hand-made.

where I'm from ( Zimbabwe ) Vans are known as the Universal School Shoe for College Students😅 But the company did a really beautiful collection in South Africa. Those shoes have character. Thanks for the Video

I used to have a pair of Vans MTE. I wore them for 4 years, through fall and winter. Never encountered any issues and kept my feet warm even in snow.

I honestly buy vans because they're so good for my flat feet and I know they'll be comfy, and even if I wear them as my main shoe I still get more than a year.out of them

I am 62 and have 22 pairs. They are so comfortable love them 😊

Shout out to Future Proof for always having a sustainability focus 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 KZfaq has so many haul and review sites where quality may be discussed but never sustainability not least all those Shien and other hauls going straight to landfill. Kudos to these guys ✨

Never owned many pairs of vans growing up but I'm a fan of the Van style shoe design so i tend to just buy cheap no name brands of that slip on shoe style/boat show style (not the one with the shoelace or high tops) coz they comfy af. Great watch as always. Good to learn more about them as a company.

Really enjoyed this video. Super informative! Would love to see the Converse version.

This Channel never fails to deliver, love y'all!

I've been wearing the same Vans shorts and sweater for 15 years and you couldn't tell it from the way they look. A good quality brand in my experience.

It is hard to quantify cool, you know it when you see it, Vans pioneered the way.

I am a proud member of the Tacoma gang. In Puerto Rico, Tacoma are extremely popular being the most sold truck in the island. I have a 2006 4x4 and it barely has devalued. Of course it is in great condition. The truck has never let me down.

Born in 95'. i've been skating since i was 12 years old. i retired from sateboarding 2 years ago. No matter how much time has passed and even though i don't skate anymore, i got a warm place in my heart for vans shoes:) i even own 3 differenst pairs of them now. Thank you for the awesome video!

Interesting to see how different people wear out shoes. Never had the back of them break down like that but I walk weird & like those shoes specifically because they're so bendy-twisty flexible that I don't crack them down the middle while stretching or walking on tiptoes & get to wear them for a long time until the waffle grid at the front is flattened out & even then they still last a while before falling apart. Usually the front of them is worn down but the back looks new because it hardly touches the ground.

I love my slip on pros. Wearing them rn. Where I live, the summers get to over 100° and you definitely feel the heat beneath your feet but hey! I wanted good board feel haha

Vans are wonderful because they serve as the great equalizer in youth. Rich or poor, if you show up in a pair of vans you are accepted and your shoes are considered up to par. This is contrast to Jordan's, yeezys, etc. Everyone has their favorite styles and the older crowd looks down fondly on the times they spent in the styles that still hang around today. I love vans and while I have trashed many a pair in my youth the new more durable styles hold up just fine for me as an adult.

Love your videos so much! One remark, would be nice if you would have told us which brands to look for, to have cool and repairable shoes. And no please don’t tell me Birkenstocks. 😉 Thanks to you guys I’m changing in the long run to Patagonia and Fjallraven instead of Arc‘Teryx - once it is beyond repair.

I bought my first pair of vans (razor) in the late 90s and I still have them. They don't even look too bad. I have kept buying them over the years, but I feel like they've become less comfortable and wear out quicker. It could also be that my old, wide feet need more support now, but it is quite interesting that I can still walk all day in my old shoes and get blisters in my newer ones. Btw, I had no idea that Vans were created by a Dutch man. As a Dutchie, I'd thought my fellow cheese-heads would claim him more.😄

Never wore them but a friend still has an old pair. He stopped wearing them because he was getting foot problems and a podiatrist advised him to wear lighter shoes. We did a little weight comparison between his old vans and the shoes he wears now and the vans really were damn heavy.

One of my favorite channels on yt! keep up the good work

I had a pair of leather SK8-HI. It was great. Now my daily footwear is a pair of SK8-HI checkerboard. All very sturdy and comfy. Love those high tops.

I was never much of a skater, but I love Vans as an everyday shoe, especially limited editions with fun prints. Super comfy and affordable, as well as kind of sustainable in terms of materials. I own like 5 pairs or so. I really don’t have any issues with wear of them, mine last multiple years usually, but I seem to have very even wear of my shoes in general, I’ve never worn holes in any of my shoes before.

I'm a skater and I use something called Shoe Goo. It's a glue thet you put on the shoe where holes start forming. When it dries it's really rubbery. It makes my shoes las so much longer. It's awesome.

I'm always going to have a soft spot for Converse. They fit my feet really well, and they also are ridiculously aesthetic and comfortable!

11:53 not sure if you going to mention this but you can get like rubber things that stick onto your sole or toe so your soles dont get warn down in those most worn down places theres probably a larger variety of them then i know about but if you were to start implementing those your basic throw away sneakers can last much longer. Just a useful tip for you and your viewers not sure if your going to mention it further in the video

big fan of Vans here. great video Levi. love it

cargo pants and shorts are just too functional to not be relevant. they have been favorites of mine ever since I was a kid and now I'm approaching that "middle aged" stage. They are more appealing than ever because who doesn't want more pockets?

I used to wear vans all the time.its been a part of my life since I could remember! I believe when we got them they were like $20 then $30 -$45 and now they're like ~$70! Anyways in the early 2000s when I started skating it was crazy to see that vans actually had a whole Skate park inside a freakn mall! There were two of them near me I would have my mom leave me there to watch so pro-ams skate these huge ramps while my she shopped around. After and during my love of skating I got into music. I found that you could tear off the top of the box and use the box itself to store your CD cases. Of course my next phase was going to concerts and of course vans was there once again providing the various lineups of artists. Now I just buy any collab I like nintendo, Sailor moon, the simpsons and now stranger things.

Coming from a older person in their 40’s vans are really comfortable so comfortable most of my shoes are vans and I’m not a skater these are some of the most comfy casuals you can get for a good price

I like probably many other have always worn some type of High Top Chucks Taylor's or high top Vans in the 80s or 90's. Was simply a to me a comfortable natural wearing piece of garment in my day & thats all i could get! Needless to say, at almost 50yrs old I still wear them! -Thx you Vans Thx you Converse🤙🏽

Vans can be pretty durable depending how you take care of them. I got a pair of second hand Sk8-hi’s, I took them everywhere and they lasted me 4-5 years.

one of the original vans stores is down the street from my parents house in Orange County, CA i still go there its awesome

Vans are also great for mountain biking as their grip is so good, and are soo comfy

Vans Authentic model just goes with everything man

Maybe my cobbler is just a giant weirdo, but he has replaced soles on sandals that I bought at Kmart in 1998. Cemented construction is how almost all women's shoes are made. A Goodyear welt will allow shoes to be resold many more times than a non-welted shoe, but as long as you aren't committed to the exact same sole as came on your shoe, you can get a new sole.

So while not a more repairable shoe vans has been looking more into the future ramifications of shoe production. They’ve recently came out with a line called VR3 (Vans Reduce Reuse Recycle) made out of mostly recycled, and recyclable, materials.

So is the Skate line what I should get if I keep wearing out my vans, or is there a company that makes similar shoes that don't fall apart after a year/can be repaired but are similar in style and comfort to vans slip-ons?

I only wear the Kyle Walker pros now because they have a fat sole and last me years of daily wear. The cheap slip-ons can’t last a few months before they thin out as you mentioned. I used to have to duct tape them back together in high school and college…

They look good and they’re comfy plus you can skate in them

I wear Vans for the comfort. I have had mine for several years and there still fine.

🤓😎These shoes are so nostalgic. Brings me back to when I was a kid.

I’ve been skating for over 6 years now and no shoe last longer than vans. I have had pairs that withstood so much abuse they felt like slippers to me. Not just skating but walking miles and hiking vans literally do it all.

I'm not a big shoe person or anything, so literally all I know about vans is that they're comfortable and easy slip ons that serve me well whenever I get them.

Vans are also super popular in the lifting community because of how flat they are. Fortunately that last longer for us lifters than they do for skaters, although you’ll still probably be buying a new pair once a year if you lift in them every day. So cool to learn more about their history!

I'm surprised to think about vans as being particularly quick to wear out, but I guess it makes sense when compared to most really highend, $150+ price range shoes. When I used to bartend and was on my feet all damn day, Vans styled laceless slip on shoes were my favorite to wear to get through the day. As for comfort name brand Vans weren't that much better than the cheap walmart brands or whatever, the only thing that made Vans really worth spending extra for was their durability. Off brand shoes in that style would wear out after a few weeks, but my Vans could go about a year before I wanted to replace them. Now that i think about it I probably could've made them last even longer if I never spilled commercial cleaning supplies on them lol.

I'm a huge fan of Vans old skool. I track the wears of my wardrobe and this is my conclusion. I bought my last pair back in 2019, I use them for 356 days (probably more than this, I started tracking back in 2020) and my cost per wear right now is 0,22€. Right now there are tearing apart in the common spots, but i think i can gave them at least 60 wears more before buying a new pair. I use them as a regular shoe, not for sports. Still a good inversion for me 😊

Vans are one of the best shoes for my Wide feet. They fit perfect

I love vans. I wear them the people Jordan’s. I worked for Vans too. I love the company and the brand and did all of that before even working for them. They company they are now is kind of the same they were when they tried expanding too much. The only reason this works is bc they are owned by VF. The same company that owns Dickies, Supreme, North Face etc. They drop colors, and collabs, push them for like a week and if they’re successful they will drop more colors and slight variants and slightly increase the price, and if they fail they will sit for another month and full size runs from full price stores will get sent to outlet stores. I can’t say they’d be doing this if they didn’t have a retail giant investment company owning them, but it only “works” bc they do own them. They do so very well I would say because a lot of casual fans of the brand haven’t noticed this. It used to be you could go to your favorite retailer before their own stores popped up most everywhere and still would see the basic silhouettes and colors and they’d have a wall or 2 with cool colors, designs, and shapes outside of the basics. It was understood you get them bc they won’t last forever, and it was cool when you saw someone with a cool color in public bc they were not all that common. I miss those days lol. They upped their prices. They are still on par with their competitors, but Authentics used to be $45-50 dollars, and they start at 49.95-$55. Anything outside of their starting 5 lines up (Authentics, Slip-Ons, Eras, Old Skools, and Sk8-His) start at $70. Old Skool V’s are just Old Skools with Velcro. They start at $70 now and they readily available when they used to be unicorns.

Could you do a video on Terracycle? They have some amazing recycling claims and initiatives but its hard to find the outputs or technologies they are using even in broad terms.

I actually buy the Authentics because they last longer than some other canvas sneakers I had before. So I guess it depends with which other canvas sneakers you compare the durability here.

As a BMX rider, the waffle sole just grips on your pedal like no other.

This kind of thing is why I try to wear boots as often as possible. Traditional leather boots follow that pattern you describe of just putting a new sole on the same upper for all time.

My pro-model vans lasted me for 4 years. It broke down when lockdown happened and the glue/ sole went brittle.

Ive worm vans for about 7 years and the heel wear was only a problem for me when i was younger because i would drag my feet.

Always got to have a pair of vans in the collection

I have one pair Vans patchwork slip-ons. They are really pretty and patchwork has real stitches. I haven’t worn them yet, just admiring whenever I take them out of box. I actually prefer Converse 5-eye low profile sneakers. The rubber outsole is stiffer to my liking.

I miss the Vans on the 2010s. They really tried new things, like more upscale fabrics, also different silhouettes. Like surfer shoes, meant to be worn to the beach with out socks. I still wear them, I like the simple lines, and the quirky details that they have. Like on black shoes, they use white thread. The don't seem to be made the same way like in the 2010s, and I really miss the LPE, a dresser shoe but not a dress shoe perfect for business casual. I think the investment company that bought them out is raising their prices too fast, and is has streamlined things a little too much. That being said, I will continue to wear them, even though I am not a skater, and I am an old man.

I am not sure how easy it would be to film future proof videos when you're on the road in the wilderness. A backdrop of nature would be a nice change.

バンズはペタペタと地面を感じれる所が好きだね。夏のアスファルトの熱さ冬の雪の冷たさ。全て足裏に体感できる。唯一無二のスニーカーです。

Sneakers are comfortable as hell and I like comfort. I could dress up when I need to in heels but I have more Vans than dress shoes lol I don’t skateboard..My style of dress for years was always in jeans, t shirt and sneakers. Converse hurt my feet so I bought Vans and love it. I have 10 different pairs in all colors too! Love them! We buy Vans for my son too. It’s nice and affordable too!

i love vans because many models are narrow, perfect for my narrow feet and high arches. i like how the ankle and sides are grippy and solid and yet you have more wiggle room than converse in the toe box. but above all, i LOVE HOW SQUISHY THEY GET!! a beaten up pair of vans gets so squishy and soft and they turn ridiculously comfortable.

It would be very interesting to see a video about Peak Design!

I basically wear Vans exclusively, I have for years, I own some pairs which are over 5 years old and are still in great shape. I always tell my friends I should be sponsored by Vans already 😅 and yeah, the Skate Pros are amazing!

Skate shoes are also not intended for weightlifting but I use Circa brand shoes for that. I am not the only one either. There is a skateshop here I heard the kids working there say everyone is either skinny or looks like the hulk. The owner said well weightlifters use skate shoes too for the gym

In the 80's it was BMX, today, my mountain bikes. The no slip grip on my pedals!, they look good as well.

Rubber was intently use in Skate shoes not becos it's cheap but becos of board feel and grip. They break easily, but it's still the best grip you can get on the grip tape. They have been trying hard to innovate on materials especially in the Pro-Skate category. Stay tune.

Affordable, comfortable, stylish, and a bunch of colors. What's not to like!

Every time I see Vans I get reminded of that meme where, the higher the Vans, the scarier is the person who wears them.

i think i saw on their website somewhere that they have a take back program in so cal where their shoes are most popular but idk for sure

2017 was all about the burgandy mid and half cab 🙏🏽

Were you in marching band? That is some major “heel-toe” action!

Love my vans, usually last me around 3-5 years

It's just sad that sneakers can't be repaired, there really isn't a lot of other comfortable summer shoe alternatives if you don't want sandals. Just watching this video after I've worn out my expensive Veja sneakers in less than five months 😭

Early 2000s skater kid, we would duct tape the heck out of our shoes to the point we just walked with a ball of grey tape on our feet! Practicing kick flips and such takes alot out of shoes no kid could afford.

I've always wore skate shoes even if I don't skate. The quality is just 💪 and look way better than those bulky ass shoes people like wearing these days.

Its beautiful

Could you do a video on the brand solamon

Vans might be biodegradable since they're made of rubber, canvas and/or suede. They might turn to dust while synthetic shoes just sit in landfills for eternity.

Great video. Love Vans and always will, been wearing them my entire life.

When my mom discovered vans recently she was so excited! She thought only skater kids could wear them!

I used to wear these but the lack of arch support sucked so badly

I wonder what happened to Tom Delonge's Macbeth shoes? They were an alternate for Vans back in the competitive skateboarding brand days

I have had at least one (often more) pair of vans for 40 years since around the age of 14. NO MORE! the last pair I got started to fall apart after a week. I tried to return the shoes. On first try the store had decided to close early. The next time i tried they denied i had even got them in that store? I didn't have my receipt but the shoes were in the box and in original bag. I had three members of staff basically pulling apart my story. I left with the obviously brand new but falling apart shoes. I did tell them i had been a customer of vans for this length of time and they could not give a F so much for brand loyalty!

Best skate shoe ever ! At 55 I still wear vans ! Old school cool 😎! They only had three styles when they first came out ! I just wish they where still made in AMERICA though

yeah, the exact same thing goes for Converse classic Taylors - they are super comfortable way above anything for my legs personally, but they age so quickly. sometimes not even a full season. and yeah, it’s always the heel for me too. i am able to repair them for some additional runtime with the pieces of rubber from last year’s pair (yeah loool, i’m not kidding), carefully glueing them from the inside to cover the damage, but for real, man - this is pathetic lifetime for a pair of shoes

I love them, got 4 pairs

One on air jordans please?

do converse next. or levis

never skated, but i almost exclusively wore Vans in the mid to late 00s, and being the emo/scene kid i was, i had bright neon green and blue laces on my solid black Vans 🤘

I do skate so I love vans for life

I rock puma to workout and grey vans or Etnes at all other times. Unless its a posh do then i put brown Chelsie boots with a grey suit. Thats it 4 pairs of shoes every occasion covered