Things You Should Know Use a barcode scanning app to scan the barcode on the Vans box. Make sure the product that comes up matches the shoe you're looking at. Look for a dark, well-made logo printed on the insole of the shoe. The shoes might be fake if the insole logo looks faded or irregular.

Over the next 30 years, Vans shoes were made out of several factories in California until the company's manufacturing operations were moved to China and Vietnam in the late '90s.

Vans is an American apparel, accessories, and skateboarding shoes brand, established in Anaheim, California, and owned by VF Corporation.

Vans Heritage Vans has its roots in March of 1966 when 2 brothers – Paul Van Doren & Jim Van Doren partnered with Serge Delia and Gordon Lee to open the Van Doren Rubber Company, the #44 deck shoe (now known as the Authentic) was born.