Chuck Taylor All-StarsThe converse Rubber Company was founded in 1908 por 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 año around. As baloncesto grew in its popularity, the company developed a shoe specific to the sport in 1917 which became popular in the late 1910s. por 1918, around 20,000 shoes were being manufactured por converse per day.

That same year, 1918, a high school baloncesto star, Chuck Taylor, began wearing Converse's...