The following are a handful of details and dates on the subject of the topic of training shoes. Hopefully you will like them.
The difference between what we see today, for example the Lacoste womens trainer and the shoes we saw in the past is huge. However it has take a lot of time to arrive at where we are today.
Before anything else a small list of a small number of of the more specialized terms used to describe these shoes from a range of countries:
Today’s training shoe may possibly trace it’s origins back to the 1852 and the advent of rubber. With no rubber there would be no training shoe.
This list provides some of the important dates and events in the history of the training shoe:
1890s - Reebok was born in The United Kingdom.
1900 - 1909 - Sports shoes developed for basketball teams by the Spalding company.
1910 - 1919 - The now famous Adidas company was formed in Germany by Adi Dassler. The basketball shoe known as the Converse All Stars arrives.
1920s and 1930s - Post WW1 mass marketing of sports and sporting goods including trainers.
1936 - Spring Court a company from France, markets a tennis shoe with eight ventilation holes.
After the Second World War - Puma was formed by Rudi Dassler, the brother of Adidas founder Adi, after a family feud.
1960 - 1969 - The founders of the Nike company import Japanese sneakers into the USA. In 1964 the first all-leather tennis shoe was sold by Adidas. 1968 saw the arrival of the Puma suede trainer.
1970 - 1979 - Marketing pushes the innovation of sneakers into a variety of niches. Shoes for individual sports are highly focused..
1980s - Trainers are everywhere. The era of the global brands such as Reebok and Nike is born. New markets develop, lacoste kids trainers,
