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Converse (/ ˈ k ɒ n v ər s /) is an American lifestyle brand that markets, distributes, and licenses footwear, apparel, and accessories. Founded by Marquis Mills Converse in 1908 as the Converse Rubber Shoe Company in Malden, Massachusetts, it has been acquired by several companies before becoming a subsidiary of Nike, Inc. in 2003.
Connie Converse. Musical artist. Elizabeth Eaton Converse (born August 3, 1924 – disappeared August 1974) was an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known under her professional name Connie Converse. She was active in New York City in the 1950s, and her work is among the earliest known recordings in the singer-songwriter genre of music.
By the 1950s, Chuck Taylor All Stars had become a standard among high school, collegiate, and professional basketball players. [10]In the 1960s, Converse had captured about 70 to 80 percent of the basketball shoe market, with Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars being worn by ninety percent of professional and college basketball players.
Red or ginger hair may come in different shades - from strawberry blond to auburn. [1] With only 2% of each country's population having red hair, [2] red is the rarest natural hair-coloration. [1] The list includes people who have dyed their red hair into another color or whose red hair has gone grey with age but not people who have dyed their ...
Red hair, also known as orange hair[citation needed] or ginger hair, is a human hair color found in 2–6% of people of Northern or Northwestern European ancestry and lesser frequency in other populations. It is most common in individuals homozygous for a recessive allele on chromosome 16 that produces an altered version of the MC1R protein.
Young woman in 1980 wearing a low-cut spaghetti strap dress. The early 1980s witnessed a backlash against the brightly colored disco fashions of the late 1970s in favor of a minimalist approach to fashion, with less emphasis on accessories. In the US and Europe, practicality was considered just as much as aesthetics.
2000s in fashion. The fashion of the 2000s is often described as a global mash up, [ 1] where trends saw the fusion of vintage styles, global and ethnic clothing (e.g. boho ), as well as the fashions of numerous music-based subcultures. Hip-hop fashion generally was the most popular among young people of both sexes, followed by the retro ...
Bob cuts were favored by women. ( Saffron, 1996) Fashion in the 1990s was defined by a return to minimalist fashion, [1] in contrast to the more elaborate and flashy trends of the 1980s. One notable shift was the mainstream adoption of tattoos, [2] body piercings aside from ear piercing [3] and, to a much lesser extent, other forms of body ...