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The company's focus was directed elsewhere, on newer styles. After riding the wave of the ‘90s skateboarding boom, vans white sneakers womens christmas sale 2018 faced new competition from younger skate shoe brands like DC and Osiris. These companies—born only a few years earlier—favored a chunkier, more tech-forward silhouette (a word the fashion community uses to describe the shape of a shoe). Vans’ retro styling, by comparison, felt stale. By the early years of the new millennium, nearly a decade of sustained growth had fallen off—as had customers’ goodwill.

The brand, which is rooted in 1960s SoCal skate culture, has grown into a worldwide phenomenon under the stewardship of VF Corporation, which acquired it in 2004. In the years since the acquisition, vans shoes sale online christmas shoes for sale has gone from selling 90% of its products in California to growing its reach across the globe, making the leap to Asia and Europe.

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