Chuck Taylor All-StarsThe कॉनवर्स Rubber Company was founded in 1908 द्वारा 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 साल around. As बास्केटबाल, बास्केटबॉल, बास्केट बॉल grew in its popularity, the company developed a shoe specific to the sport in 1917 which became लोकप्रिय in the late 1910s. द्वारा 1918, around 20,000 shoes were being manufactured द्वारा कॉनवर्स per day.

That same year, 1918, a high school बास्केटबाल, बास्केटबॉल, बास्केट बॉल star, Chuck Taylor, began wearing Converse's...