Style 36 or as we all know it the Vans Old Skool. Before the Old Skool was originally released, Vans founder Paul Van Doren was looking for a way to help distinguish Vans shoes from other brands like Adidas and Nike, who already had recognisable logos. Van Doren was known as a doodler, and always had a pencil and pad close; he drew up the simple wave-like side stripe and called it the “jazz stripe”. The Vans side stripe originally appeared on the now iconic; Style 36 aka Old Skool in 1977, which just so happened to be Vans very first leather skate shoe. Now's your chance to bag yourself a pair coming in black black, you'd be silly not to.