Chuck Taylor All-StarsThe Converse Rubber Company was founded in 1908 kwa 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 mwaka around. As mpira wa kikapu grew in its popularity, the company developed a shoe specific to the sport in 1917 which became maarufu in the late 1910s. kwa 1918, around 20,000 shoes were being manufactured kwa Converse per day.

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