Chuck Taylor All-StarsThe コンバース Rubber Company was founded in 1908 によって 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 年 around. As バスケットボール, バスケット ボール grew in its popularity, the company developed a shoe specific to the sport in 1917 which became 人気 in the late 1910s. によって 1918, around 20,000 shoes were being manufactured によって コンバース per day.

That same year, 1918, a high school バスケットボール, バスケット ボール star, Chuck Taylor, began wearing Converse's...