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I was just thinking about it recently, how all my years in school and college that I don’t remember seeing anyone wear a pair of vans. This is NY from 1990-2013. The skater kids would wear airwalks, dvs, etnies, element, dc, and all the other skate brand sneakers.
Maybe regional? Outside of living in San Diego, I lived in the South my whole life (FL, NC, AL, and TX) and I still wore them. Now, that said, I didn't have gobs of them. More like a pair of navy or black Old Skools or Authentics here and there, but that was about it. And not because I skated, but more so because I just liked the silhouette and the all-important "they've always been cheap". I didn't run across anyone in Mobile, AL or NC wearing them when I was; however, in FL people wore them a lot. Anyway, these days you're more apt to find people wearing them casually than actual "skaters". When I was younger, kids that skated wore Vision Street Wear, Airwalks, and before that Jordan 1s. DC, Element, Etnies and the like came around probably in my 20s and never owned a pair, but had buddies that wore them.