The birth of the checkerboard to customize his vans
The Vans checkered motif, recognizable between a thousand, has become a symbol for the Californian brand. He appeared on the shoes called today "Slip-ons" thanks to Paul Van Doren, the son of the creator of the Vans brand who noticed that some skaters liked to customize their vans themselves with this motif on their soles. The checkered underwear will be the shoes worn as a sign of protest and a racial unit because they appear in a complicated political context. You may have seen them at the foot of Sean Penn in the film "It heats up at the Ridgemont high school" in the 80s? The checkered pattern also came to customize the Old Skool Vans, which became the essential sneakers of skaters looking for good shoes for their board.