The In-N-Out Classic Slip-On by Vans covers a black canvas upper with small crossed palm trees, each pair embroidered in red thread. The chain sells it only through its online company store.
Nothing on the shoe is printed. The design stays in the thread. The net proceeds from every pair go to HIS EYES, the foundation serving people experiencing homelessness.
Palms planted in red thread
The crossed palms repeat in a loose scatter, the same spacing the chain uses when it plants two palms in an X in front of a restaurant. Each motif is small, roughly the size of a thumbnail, and the red thread sits slightly proud of the black canvas, so the pattern catches the light first and the branding second.
The rest of the shoe stays stock, and the restraint runs through every panel the embroidery leaves alone. The white rubber sidewall keeps its black pinstripe, the elastic side panels stay white, and the small Vans flag label at the midfoot carries red lettering on white.
Sizes run from men’s 3.5 to 14. Under the embroidery sits the standard Classic Slip-On, a canvas upper and the waffle outsole in rubber, imported.
A treasure marker from 1972
In-N-Out began planting crossed palm trees in front of most of its restaurants in 1972. The mark comes from a film.
One of founder Harry Snyder’s favorite movies, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, sends its characters racing toward treasure buried beneath four palms arranged like the letter W. Each store was Harry’s treasure, so the crossed palms became its marker, planted out front where drivers read them as a sign. The insole print pairs the arrow with the Vans logo and a small Van Doren tag.
The heel carries the second signature. The In-N-Out arrow is embroidered there in yellow over red lettering, the same arrow the chain first put on its signs in 1954.
Where the money goes
In-N-Out launched the His Eyes Foundation in 2025, a nonprofit built to provide hope, immediate support and sustainable solutions to people experiencing homelessness. The shoe sits in the company store’s Foundation Items collection, and the product page states the mechanism in one plain clause: “net proceeds from each pair will be donated to HIS EYES.”
Evan Ellingson founded His Eyes after walking his own path through homelessness, and he devoted his time and resources to serving others in the years that followed. President and owner Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson and her husband, Sean Ellingson, had the foundation legally formed to honor his heart and vision, and the shoe turns that founding story into a product anyone can buy.
The price stays ordinary. At $80, the pair costs what a limited canvas Vans shoe costs.
Buy the pair if the crossed palms carry meaning for you, because the embroidery is the genuine marker and the $80 sends its net proceeds to HIS EYES. Skip it if you want a skate shoe first, since the canvas Classic Slip-On under the stitching is the standard shoe, unchanged.
