There was nothing more fashionable than being a skater back in 1997. And if you weren't a skater, the next best thing was to dress like you were anyway, even if the only time your tried to skateboard you wiped out after going ten feet on a flat sidewalk. Thankfully, achieving the look didn't require good skate skills, but rather a brazen commitment to skater fashion. And at the time, that especially mandated the proper footwear, which was either Airwalks or Vans. Narain recalled the trend, and told me, "Airwalks were the easy way to show the world we were down with street style and skate culture... without actually having to go near a skateboard." 

If we've learned anything from one of the Internet's most popular viral sensations, it's that Vans have remained fashionable all these years later. Airwalks, on the other hand, while still in business, are synonymous with '90s nostalgia fashion, enshrined in the years when half pipes were church.