Vans Old Skool "Checkerboard"

Colorway: White/Black · Style code: VN0A38G127K · Release date: February 28, 2018 · Lowest resale ask: $113.68 · Availability: Available now

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About the Vans Old Skool "Checkerboard"

Few patterns belong to a shoe company as completely as this one does, and here it arrives in its most familiar form. The toe, heel and eyestay are overlaid in Off-White suede, a shade warmer than the check's white squares, which gives the shoe two different whites working against each other.

Below the upper sits a white vulcanised midsole, edged by a black foxing strip, while the Off The Wall licence plate at the heel is picked out in red, the only other colour anywhere on the pair. It released on February 28, 2018 at $60. Canvas check wears in a specific way: the black squares hold while the white ones grey, so an old pair looks lower in contrast than a new one, which is the look most people are actually buying when they hunt down a worn example.

Written with AI from brand specs; facts checked against our catalog data on Sep 18, 2026.