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By the 1950s, Chuck Taylor All Stars had become a standard among high school, collegiate, and professional basketball players. [10]In the 1960s, Converse had captured about 70 to 80 percent of the basketball shoe market, with Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars being worn by ninety percent of professional and college basketball players.
Taylor's greatest legacy is the iconic Converse All Star shoe that he helped to improve and tirelessly promoted for nearly four decades. Most American basketball players wore Chuck Taylor All Stars between the mid-1920s and the 1970s. Converse All Stars were also the official basketball shoe of the Olympic games from 1936 until 1968.
Established in 1939 and later named as an homage to the Chuck Taylor All-Stars, an iconic basketball shoe in the early 20th century, it has been awarded every year with the exceptions of 1944 due to World War II and 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. [1]
"Chucks" – Converse All-Stars, though the "Chuck" nickname has been used to describe them since at least the 1950s (e.g. Chuck Taylor All-Stars), in reference to their original designer, Chuck Taylor "Clearout" – Selling many pieces of a collection to make room for others "Colorway" – The combination of colors or symbols on a pair of sneakers
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While for all intents and purposes the low top is the same shoe, only the high top version is a Chuck Taylor. They are however both Converse All-Stars. Chuck Taylor is synonymous with the high top version bearing the round patch. The photo of the shoes here is unfortunate as it shows the low top version which as mentioned is technically not a ...
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