Four sneaker facts you didn't know

We look at the penultimate name - Nike air jordan dior Max sneakers. On the site from which the order was made, there are easily sneakers with the same name and description. And then we find these sneakers on our main character too... On the same day, many more checkered, Hawaiian and colorful shirts were ordered. For example, this blue one with snowflakes. The Prime Minister chose her for a walk around Sochi ... It is obvious that these online purchases are made by Medvedev himself. But appreciate the scale of premier shopping. In three months, he ordered 73 T-shirts, 20 pairs of sneakers and 30 pairs of swimming trunks. Clothes and shoes were ordered for only one person - all the same size, the same brands, the same stores, and so on.

We all have them, we all love them: sneakers. It is more than just sportswear, it is an item of everyday life and a fashionable image. Collecting sneakers has become a popular hobby in recent years. But there are things that not many people know about their favorite shoes. For example: what about the fact that the biggest collection of sneakers cost over $750,000 and turned a guy's life from poor to rich? How is this possible? You can read the answer to this and many other interesting facts about sneakers below!

Did you know… how the sneaker got its name?

There are several words for them: in Australia they are called "slippers", "joggers" or "sneakers", in Nigerian-English they are called "canvers", and in South Africa they are called "tackies" or "sneaks". The most common English word is sneak, which comes from the Old English word snican and means "creeping" or "creeping". Over the years, the word “sneak” has come to be used to refer to people who walk around without wanting others to see or hear them. Hiding in the 1800s was not as easy as it is today: in those days, people wore loud, clumsy shoes. Later, rubber-soled shoes became popular and became the first mass-produced shoes: sneakers were created. Their main advantage is that people can now finally move faster and quieter without attracting anyone's attention.

Who first invented them?

Many people think that Keds invented the first running shoe because they were the first to mass-sell the product. In the beginning, Goodyear made air jordan dior sneakers possible. In 1839, they were the first to obtain a license for the vulcanization process, namely the attachment of fabric to rubber. Rubber shoes were first created in the 1870s in Great Britain and were used for playing croquet - they gradually became popular for sporting purposes under the name "plimsolls". In the 1890s, the Keds brand began producing the first running shoes in the US, calling them "the first Sabbath day running shoe".