Originally released as a mid-top version of the classic Vans Caballero high-top, the Half Cab was created in direct response to the demands of a new generation of skateboarders changing the game and taking skateboarding back out into the streets after the vert-riding heyday of the 1980s. "In '91, I noticed that a lot of street skaters were cutting my shoe halfway down and wearing them that way," Steve Caballero remembers. "So in '92, I gave Vans the idea to make a lower cut shoe and call it the Half Cab."
