What is the vans squiggle anyway?

[botefdunn]

I took a shower when I came in from skating earlier. As the hot water danced it's rhythmic dance across my shoulders, my mind wandered and I realized I have no idea what the Vans logo is. Anyone?

[Silky Johnson]

A skateboard

[behavioralguide]

It's a flat wave-like v

[SneakySecrets]

Interestingly, each of Adidas’ three stripes represents a Gibb brother.  Apparently the founder was a big Bee Gees fan.

[stets]

I took a shower when I came in from skating earlier. As the hot water danced it's rhythmic dance across my shoulders, my mind wandered and I realized I have no idea what the Vans logo is. Anyone?

We just talking about the side piece of leather on the Old Skool and Sk8-Hi and such?

I've always heard it called the "Jazz Stripe" by fellow nerds like that PillowHeat guy, but lately on Vans' website and other corporate run verbiage, they call it the "side stripe".

According to that PillowHeat collector dude, the stripe made it's debut on the Style 36 (which turned into the Old Skool), so all it is is a "tribute" line to the top eyerow and the collar line, as far as I can tell.

[Ray C. Usery]

They stole it from Kung Fu shoes. Hammer and all

[stets]

They stole it from Kung Fu shoes. Hammer and all

Haha yeah, I don't think these rando China knockoff shoes you found on Amazon came out before the Old Skool in 1977.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WZFFWZY

[biaherl]

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They stole it from Kung Fu shoes. Hammer and all

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Haha yeah, I don't think these rando China knockoff shoes you found on Amazon came out before the Old Skool in 1977.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WZFFWZY

low tops

[Chavo]

The original store in Santa Monica had a mural that referred to it as the "Flying V". The squiggle used to have sharper angles so I always thought it was an abstraction of a lighting bolt (a ubiquitous logo in the late '70s used by Lightning Bolt surfboards). I have zero evidence to support this other than the timing and when one of the Van Doren owners branched off to start his own shoe company, he completely appropriated the high top and replaced the squiggle with a lighting bolt.

[Skart]

Same as venture

V

An A falling

Listen to how rowley speaks about it

[Reed Richards]

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I took a shower when I came in from skating earlier. As the hot water danced it's rhythmic dance across my shoulders, my mind wandered and I realized I have no idea what the Vans logo is. Anyone?

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We just talking about the side piece of leather on the Old Skool and Sk8-Hi and such?

I've always heard it called the "Jazz Stripe" by fellow nerds like that PillowHeat guy, but lately on Vans' website and other corporate run verbiage, they call it the "side stripe".

According to that PillowHeat collector dude, the stripe made it's debut on the Style 36 (which turned into the Old Skool), so all it is is a "tribute" line to the top eyerow and the collar line, as far as I can tell.

I worked at a Vans store twice, and yeah they call it a jazz stripe.  Not sure if it got phased out or even explained otherwise.