Can you color suede shoes with permanent marker?

Ok so there are some shoes I made at the vans store website about a month back but never ordered then so I planned to order them this weekend but when I went to the site they had removed one of the options for the side of the shoe colors so if I order the white one can I color it with a permanent marker safely and not destroy the shoe because I tried this on old shoes but the marker just rubs off right away