In the 1820s, a rubber overshoe made its mark. Elizabeth Semmelhack, senior curator at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, told Business Insider they were the start of iconic sneaker wear.

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The iconic rubber-soled, canvas high-top sneaker first emerged over a century ago in 1917 as a basketball shoe, tied to none other than Chuck Taylor himself. Initially, Marquis Mills Converse began ...