My soldier son has 2 pairs of these shoes...he ordered them from Iraq and had them shipped home for his return. I thought they looked familiar. He left a few weeks ago headed back off leave and took them with him, but the box is here. Yep used for skateboarding....but he wears his with jeans (no skateboard), seems to be the wave now.
Skateboard shoes are the equivalent of ‘tennis shoes’ when I was a kid. There are only 2,378,789 different kinds of sneakers now. LOL! I would get a headache shopping for shoes when they were in school. What I thought were ugly, they loved, and what I loved, they thought were ugly. Then THAT changed, and I never did catch on : )