Chuck Taylor All-StarsThe Converse Rubber Company was founded in 1908 par 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 an around. As basketball, basket-ball grew in its popularity, the company developed a shoe specific to the sport in 1917 which became populaire in the late 1910s. par 1918, around 20,000 shoes were being manufactured par Converse per day.

That same year, 1918, a high school basketball, basket-ball star, Chuck Taylor, began wearing Converse's...