Vans Old Skool 'Color Theory - Iceberg Green'
Colorway: Iceberg Green · Style code: VN0005UFCJL · Price: $84 · Availability: Available now
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Color Theory is the run of make-ups where a single dyed shade covers the whole upper, leaving the shape to carry itself. Iceberg Green is a pale, cold green with enough blue in it to look like sea ice rather than mint, and on suede it holds its character in a way that the same colour printed on canvas would not. There is no second tone anywhere on the panels, which turns the leather sidestripe into the shoe's only line.
The pair was priced at $70, the standard figure for this part of the range. The parts below the upper are the ones every version shares, meaning a cushioned collar, a strengthened toe, eyeleted lacing and the waffle rubber bottom. Light greens sit oddly in most wardrobes and beautifully in a few, which is exactly the bet a single-colour programme makes; it runs the full spectrum and lets people find the one shade they will actually wear.