Hello everyone! Welcome to another wonderful episode of The Authentic Era. We’ve now got 15 of these under our belt, and almost nothing to show for it, lol. After popping open our drinks of choice for the evening, we remind everyone that this upcoming Sunday is the Burgeon Oasis’ 1yr Anniversary in Escondido, CA. Joey will be managing the event, and Bill will be trying to please everyone in attendance, with some great music. Come hang from 12-6 PM on Sunday 10/24.
This week, Vans will be dropping a super sick Skate Sk8-Hi by pro skater Ben Kadow, featuring a primarily black shoe, with olive green side panels with spider web embroidery. Eddie takes us on a trip down memory lane, to remind us of a few cool spider web Vans, like the vintage print pair that has been recently seen in the Anaheim Factory collection, as well as the Kadir Warriors x SBTG collab. We can’t forget the WTAPS Sk8-Mid “S”, which then got us talking about other WTAPS releases, which then transitioned into Japan exclusives from WTAPS, Porter, and so on. CDG has restocked their Authentic and Old Skools in-store at DSM.
Somehow, we found ourselves on mostexpensivehub.com, looking at the top 10 most expensive Vans shoes of all time, and naturally the list was comprised mostly of Supreme or Fear of God pairs. We immediately started judging, lol.
Vans Checkerboard Day 2021 will be on Nov. 18th. Leading up to that date, Vans will be teaming up with DoSomething.org to rally global fans to participate in a variety of initiatives focused on getting involved in community action.
We went on a heavy discussion about how we were let down by Offspring UK. Our pairs arrived in a torn and crushed bag, AND NOT ONE SET OF COASTERS! Misery loves company, and we were looking for sympathy. We didn’t find it in our chat, cause they all received theirs nicely protected in a double box, with a bag, AND THEY ALL RECEIVED THEIR COASTERS! We’re heated.
For Show and Tell, Bill came up on an unheard of sample pair of Stumptown Coffee Roasters Authentics, as well as a few Yoox come-ups. Joey picked up the Andy Reynolds Skate Half Cabs which are beautiful. Eddie shared a couple of Japan exclusive Metropolis’, in black and dark green, as well as a vintage USA pair of white Authentics, with a funky little stain for character.
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