Pro-Keds recently released this Original Royal Mid that offers a good choice to those looking for a little something else but love the look and feel of vulcanized rubber shoes. Four different ...

According to the brand, Hood Rubber began advertising its first basketball sneakers in its 1914 catalog. The shoe was a laced-to-toe high-top made with heavy duck canvas and a vulcanized rubber sole.

Three years later, they were all consolidated under the name Keds, which became the first company to sell a rubber soled canvas sneaker, a precursor to countless silhouettes, in 1917. Even the name ...

That same day, on its official Facebook page, Keds revised a claim that said that in 1916, it “made the first shoe with a soft rubber sole and coined the term ‘sneaker,’ ” to say instead ...