Cara-Beth Burnside pro model skate shoes
date: label: date made
content: 1999
name: label: designer
content: Burnside, Cara-Beth
label: user
content: Whitehead, Cindy
label: maker
content: Vans, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Cara-Beth Burnside pro model skate shoes worn by pro skater Cindy Whitehead. The shoes are white canvas with a white suede Vans side swoosh and white laces. There is a light blue sunburst with "CB" embroidered on the heel and Cara-Beth's signature is printed on the inside of the shoe. They have a brown gum sole with blue and white edges as Burnside preferred a gum sole shoe and wanted it to be a feature on her pro models. These Vans are the first pro model shoe designed by a woman skateboarder and to be sold exclusively to girls.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Cara-Beth Burnside was a pro skater in the 1980s often competing against men because there were no contests for women at the time. She was the first woman to be featured on the cover of Thrasher Magazine and used her influence to convince the people at Vans that a girl skate shoe would sell. Skeptical at first, the Cara-Beth model became one of the most popular model shoes in 1999.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: skateboarding
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2022.0067.01
label: accession number
content: 2022.0067
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0067.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shoes, skateboarding
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: canvas (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: suede (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 4 in x 5 in; 25.4 cm x 10.16 cm x 12.7 cm