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A pair of Nike Air Jordan 1 sneakers. Sneakers or trainers , also known by a wide variety of other names, are shoes primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise but which are also widely used for everyday casual wear. They were popularized by companies such as Converse, Nike and Spalding in the mid 20th century. Like other ...
The earliest known shoes are sagebrush bark sandals dating from approximately 7000 or 8000 BC, found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938. [5] The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in the Areni-1 cave complex in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3500 BC.
Woodcut of shoemakers from Frankfurt am Main, 1568. Two shoemakers in Vietnam in 1923. Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cordwainers (sometimes misidentified as cobblers, who repair shoes rather than make them [citation needed]).
[1] [2] Keds's original shoe design, the Champion, was the first mass-marketed canvas-top shoe. [3] They became known as "sneakers" as the soft rubber soles allowed "sneaking around silently". [4] By the early 1920s, the shoes were worn by Olympic soccer players, national and international tennis champions, and college athletes. [5]
A plimsoll, also spelled plimsole, [1] or pump [2] (also known as a gym shoe [2] [1] or a sandshoe [1]), is a light sports shoe with a canvas upper and flat rubber sole. The shoe originated in the United Kingdom, [ citation needed ] there called a "sand shoe", acquiring the nickname "plimsoll" in the 1870s.
Invented by a man named Brock Seiler, and led by former Beats by Dre CEO Susan Paley, DropLabs aims to take audio to a whole new level by syncing music, movies and other audio to shoes that ...
The iconic shoe designer fills us in on his design work, the ins and outs of creating sneakers, and his unexpected NBA Finals collab.
These shoes took more liberties with the Chuck Taylor design than the Chuck II, and the metal grommets and rubber toecap were removed. Nike technology included a circular knit upper with a shiny finish, a cushioned foam rubber sole similar to the Air Jordans , a neoprene tongue, and a TPU -fused toecap.