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Its original design featured the classic three stripes, as well as the gold trefoil on the foldable tongue. As years progressed, the trainer evolved into the Samba Millennium (which was made without the extended tongue) and the Samba '85. [3] Vintage versions of the trainer are still in production, under the name Classic M. [4] [5] [6]
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.
The word was already in use at least as early as 1887, when the Boston Journal made reference to "sneakers" as "the name boys give to tennis shoes." The name "sneakers" originally referred to how quiet the rubber soles were on the ground, in contrast to noisy standard hard leather sole dress shoes.
It is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe, and the second largest in the world, after Nike. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is the holding company for the Adidas Group , which also owns an 8.33% stake of the football club Bayern Munich , [ 7 ] and Runtastic , an Austrian fitness technology company.
Keds Champion sneaker, for women, 1916. In 1916, U.S. Rubber consolidated 30 different shoe brand names to create one company. Initially, the name "Peds" was chosen for the brand from the Latin word for feet, but it was already trademarked. [1] [2] Keds's original shoe design, the Champion, was the first mass-marketed canvas-top shoe. [3]
Adidas Stan Smith is a tennis shoe made by Adidas, and first launched in 1965.Originally named "Adidas Robert Haillet" after the brand endorsed French prominent player Robert Haillet, in 1978 the sneakers were renamed after Stan Smith, an American tennis player who was active between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1980s.
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Similarly, amid Perestroika and the Fall of Communism, Italy dismantled its domestic industry, outsourcing its work to Eastern Europe, which proved less dependable than the Chinese and further eroded their market share. [39] Beginning around the year 2000, China has constantly produced more than half of the world's shoes. [40]