The first appearance of sneakers were called Plimsoll. They were rubber shoes design for beach wear.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
First sneakers
Posted on 5:14 AM by michi
Sneakers go back a long way. In the late 18th century, people wore rubber soled shoes called plimsolls, but they were pretty crude—for one thing, there was no right foot or left foot. Around 1892, the U.S. Rubber Company came up with more comfortable rubber sneakers with canvas tops, called Keds. By 1917, these sneakers began to be mass produced. (They got the nickname sneakers because they were so quiet, a person wearing them could sneak up on someone.)
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