Chuck Taylor

I've always thought that Chuck Taylor was the creator of Converse All-Star shoes... my most favorite shoes in the world! Imagine my surprise when I did a research for my blog today and found out I was dead wrong...

Marquis Mills Converse founded the Converse Rubber Shoe Company in 1908. In 1917 came the company's main turning point when it introduced Converse All-Star basketball shoe.

So who the heck is Chuck Taylor? Chuck, on the other hand, was actually an athlete: a basketball player! He was born Charles Hollis Taylor in 1901. In 1921, he walked into Converse complaining of sore feet. Converse compensated him by giving him a job as a salesman and by taking his suggestions of altering the design of the shoe to provide enhanced flexibility and protection, and also including patch to support the ankle. He went on to promote the shoes around the United States while almost single-handedly teaching Americans the fundamentals of basketball. By 1923, Chuck Taylor's signature was added to the patch, and the shoe became the Chuck Taylor All-Stars, thus making his name into a brand.

So there. I'm sharing what I just found out.

I've always said that flats are my best friends, but 'Chucks' will always be my BFFs :)

life begins at 26

I finally died last year. Well at least, my coward, weak self did. But not the totality of me. I knew somehow, there's a part of me that likes to put up a fight. So I have chosen to live again.. to love again.. and to love living.​​​ And I am glad I have made the right choices. 

 

As the saying goes... you have to die a few times before you can really live...