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Keds Champion sneaker, for women, 1916. In 1916, U.S. Rubber consolidated 30 different shoe brand names to create one company. Initially, the name "Peds" was chosen for the brand from the Latin word for feet, but it was already trademarked. [1] [2] Keds's original shoe design, the Champion, was the first mass-marketed canvas-top shoe. [3]
A pair of modern black mule shoes A pair of red and animal skin high heeled mules . Mule is a style of shoe that has no back or constraint around the foot's heel. The English word mule—originally written moyle—comes from French, which was using it specifically for women's slippers with an open heel since at least 1556. [1]
Champion supplied the football uniforms for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. In 2001, Notre Dame signed a five-year exclusive agreement with Adidas, which ended a partnership Champion had with the university that spanned over 50 years. [8] In June 2024, Hanesbrands announced plans to sell the Champion brand to Authentic Brands for $1.2 billion. [9]
Huaraches are a type of minimalist shoe. In their 2018 paper for the Journal of Sports Sciences, Devon R. Coetzee their co-authors defined minimalist footwear as having a sole and upper that weighed 200-gram (7.1 oz) or less and were highly flexible, a heel height of 20 millimetres (0.79 in) or shorter, and a "heel-toe differential" of 7 millimetres (0.28 in) or less.
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The earliest known shoes are sagebrush bark sandals dating from approximately 7000 or 8000 BC, found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938. [5] The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in the Areni-1 cave complex in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3500 BC.