Vans Old Skool 'Ultramarine'
Colorway: Ultramarine/White · Style code: VN0A4BV5TGW · Price: $55 · Availability: Available now
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Ultramarine is not the navy this model usually wears. It is a richer, more pigmented blue with a violet lean, the shade the name has described in paint since long before it was a sneaker colour, and on suede it holds depth that the same colour on canvas would lose. Across the panels it is uninterrupted, which puts all the visual weight on the white leather stripe curving over the midfoot.
The pair sold at $60, the standard tier for the model. Everything in the build is common to the family: metal eyelets through the lacing, a padded ankle collar, a reinforced toe cap and a vulcanised rubber sole finished with the waffle tread. Saturated blues are among the more forgiving colours in this range because they do not grey the way a mid-tone does; dirt darkens them rather than dulling them, so a well-used pair reads as broken in instead of as worn out.