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The whole debut Vans OTW line has been covered here already in a conversation with the creative director behind the collection, Mr Tom Cooke a while ago, but to commemorate the line's impending arrival in the Crooked Tongues store we've got a pair of white Larkins (UK 10) or a pair of blue Alomars (UK 9) to give away courtesy of our friends at Vans. Seeing as there's a spot of crossover in the design language, it feels like a nice merger of old world classic into some contemporary creations with an air of classicism about them. The OTW line is just wearable shoes with high levels of quality and reasonable pricepoints. This is a very 2010 way of handling a collaboration without the usual crosses, hyperbole, bells and whistles. It takes a lot to break us out of sneaker autopilot at the moment, but OTW has certainly grabbed our attention.

Buy any pair of Vans from the store until midnight on the 1st of August and you're automatically in the running to win one of the pairs we've been given. Wear 'em or share the love...whatever you want to do with them. Have we thought of a mechanism to ensure they only go to the right size? Nope. We thought we'd leave it in the hand of the footwear gods when we pull names out of a sweat-soaked New Era. Full rules and regulations are here, and good luck to all who get involved. Expect big things in coming seasons from this project and the rest of the Vans ranges — from inline classics to the increasingly avant-garde Vault and the militant creativity that Syndicate always attracts.

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