Vans Old Skool 'Tri-Tone Green'
Colorway: Tri-Tone Green · Style code: VN000CR5CX1 · Release date: January 15, 2024 · Price: $63 · Availability: Available now
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Tri-Tone Green keeps a single colour family and lets the panelling do the work. Rather than dyeing the whole upper one shade, the toe cap, the quarter panels and the heel counter each sit at a different value, so the seams that usually disappear on a solid pair become the outline of the design. The sidestripe rides across the middle of that arrangement, and depending on the light it can look like the darkest or the lightest element on the shoe.
Suede takes graded dyeing well, which is why tonal treatments like this one turn up on the model far more often than on smooth leather sneakers. It released on January 15, 2024 at $70, the standard price for the line that season. Underneath, nothing is unusual: metal eyelets, a padded ankle collar, a reinforced toe and the vulcanised waffle sole that has carried the silhouette since the 1970s. Greens in this range sit comfortably with brown and cream clothing.