Unlock Your Ultimate Summer Power Move: The Sneakers That’ll Transform Every Man’s Game

OK, maybe you already are intimately familiar with a canvas Vans, but old favorites die hard. And the premium Authentics are a standout right now, with the parchmenty white upper and light blue foxing stripe. They read just as beachy as they do skate shoe, and they are $75.

We love already Morjas’s well-made, well-priced dress shoes, and we are thrilled with the deck shoe for much of the same reasons. It’s a streamlined low-top made with a canvas upper, removable cork insole, and a grippy rubber sole if you’re actually wearing them on boat/other wet surfaces. They are perfectly understated.

Tretorn’s signature Nylite shoes have been around since 1967—once a luxury tennis shoe—and though we probably won’t be hitting the courts in them, we can do just about everything else. These low-profile, lightweight, breathable sneakers are perfect for summer outings and vacations. They are easygoing, practical, and very thin, which we appreciate for packing purposes.

Leave it to Tyler, the Creator’s Golf le Fleur to make a canvas sneaker a little more fun just because they can. This one is in the brand’s signature boat shoe shape (made in collaboration with Converse) done with a white-ish canvas, thin green foxing stripe, and a few little flowers. There are standard laces and green rope laces, which lean in even harder to the nautical motif.

The Astrograbber feels not at all like a yachty type shoe and, to be honest, quite unlike any of the other canvas sneakers we’ve got. The waxed canvas upper sits on some thick waffle soles for grabbing all that Astroturf you may or may not be wearing them on. It feels less tied to summer wearing, so it’s a great option if you want something more year-round.

If you want a less traditional canvas shoe, Stepney Workers Club’s brown sneaker is cool as hell. The British brand makes casual canvas sneakers that feel like a modern Converse (positive! We still love Converse, too): subtle but wearable, this low-top lace-up on top of a cushioned cupsole. We love the brown canvas.

Our Commerce Editor Luke Guillory argued that an on sale pair of black Converse would be the best $45 you ever spent. And while this Throwback pair is $85, our statement still stands. The best $85 dollars you’ll spend on sneakers? These are a little chunkier, with the white toned down a bit, the laces fattened up ever so slightly.

Novesta is a must for the canvas sneaker fiends. The brand is best known for its vulcanized rubber, which has its own personality. The slightly undone foxing is the remnants of its nearly century old construction process. The canvas colors are excellent, too, like this denim-ish blue.

SeaVees makes shoes best served on and around the beach, or on and around a boat. While these sneakers serve the same purpose, they low-key look like they jumped out of a streetwear store and onto your feet. They went extra here, with chunky foxing and a thick toe cap. That contrasted with a breathable black canvas? Cool.