Are these your first Vans or the first pair of sneakers to wear through the heel fabric? All of my sneakers do it (I guess it’s due to the shape of my foot) and I just buy cheap heel patches/pads and put them in all of my sneakers.

She wants to make her shoes cooler…

I used to not care at all but ever since I saw a seemingly regular dude going barefoot in a public toilet (with squatting toilets, no less!) completely unfazed, I now definitely question those kinds of people…as well as my own existence and sanity but that is besides the point. And this was in a big urban area/capital city, not some bumf*ckville