Converse All Star 70’s Ox Shoes – Natural
Canvas Upper
Classic Converse sneaker silhouette
Rubber Chuck Taylor badge on heel
Plain Natural colour rubber toe cap and soles
In
his mid 30s, Marquis Mills Converse, who was previously a respected manager at
a footwear manufacturing firm, opened the Converse Rubber Shoe Company in Malden, Massachusetts in February 1908. The
company was a rubber shoe manufacturer, providing winter rubber soled
footwear for men, women, and children. By 1910, Converse was producing 4,000
shoes daily, but it was not until 1915 that the company began manufacturing
athletic shoes for tennis.
The company's main turning point came in 1917 when the Converse All-Star
basketball shoe was introduced. Then in 1921, a basketball player named Charles H. "Chuck" Taylor walked into Converse complaining
of sore feet. Converse gave him a job. He worked as a salesman and ambassador,
promoting the shoes around the United States, and in 1932 Taylor’s signature
was added to the All Star patch on the classic, high-topped sneakers. He
continued this work until shortly before his death in 1969.
Converse also customized shoes for the New York Renaissance (the "Rens"), the first all-African
American professional basketball team. On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain, an American basketball player for the Philadelphia Warriors, scored 100 points in a game while wearing his
pair of Chucks, taking a 169–147 victory over the New York Knicks.
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