Chuck Taylor All-StarsThe Converse Rubber Company was founded in 1908 door Marquis M. Converse, in Massachusetts, United States. Initially, the company only made galoshes and seasonal shoes. Around 1915 the company decided to make athletic shoes so they could have continual production all jaar around. As basketbal grew in its popularity, the company developed a shoe specific to the sport in 1917 which became populair in the late 1910s. door 1918, around 20,000 shoes were being manufactured door Converse per day.

That same year, 1918, a high school basketbal star, Chuck Taylor, began wearing Converse's...