Vans Re-Releases Checkerboard Slip-Ons for the Next Generation of Jeff Spicolis

A new limited-edition pair 37 years after the release of Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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Fifteen years ago, the Library of Congress selected Fast Times at Ridgemont High for inclusion in its National Film Registry, where it joined the likes of Lost Horizon and Hitchcock’s The Birds as a motion picture “deemed culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” In the two generations since this 1982 teen flick was released, much of what’s in it hasn’t aged so well, like the movie’s near-total exclusion of black characters, for instance, or the vapid gag of taping a sign to a dude’s back that reads: “I am a homo.”

But one element from the movie has held up and, in fact, might even be approaching timeless.

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