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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Red shirt (photography) The red shirt school of photography is a trend which first became popular in the 1950s. It was pioneered by National Geographic photographers, who had subjects wear, or chose subjects who wore overly colorful clothes (not necessarily of red, though red was preferred as it rendered best on Kodachrome film). [1]
Comme des Garçons ( French for 'Like Boys', pronounced [kɔm de ɡaʁsɔ̃]; Japanese: コム・デ・ギャルソン, romanized : Komu de Gyaruson ), [1] also CDG for short, is a Japanese fashion label based in Paris, founded by Rei Kawakubo. [2] Its French flagship store is located in Paris, while its other physical retail stores are in ...
Reebok International Limited (/ ˈ r iː b ɒ k /) is an American fitness footwear and clothing brand that is a part of Authentic Brands Group. It was established in England in 1958 as a companion company to J.W. Foster and Sons , a sporting goods company which had been founded in 1895 in Bolton , Lancashire.
Red Shirts (United States) The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white supremacist [ 1][ 2][ 3] paramilitary terrorist groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Reconstruction era of the United States. Red Shirt groups originated in Mississippi in 1875, when anti ...