welcome to the history of the entire
world class today
i'm wearing my brand new red sneakers
look at those little things down there i
personally like to call them squeakers
because when i walk they squeak
in honor of my brand new super red
sneakers i thought that i'd do the
history of
the sneaker
let's take a jump into history shall we
it's a long time ago people needed to
protect their feet
they love their feet but they're getting
all mucky and dirty and
gross i mean they had shoes but how
comfortable are wooden shoes ask the
dutch there was a guy named norman and
his feet were enormous and people called
him enormous norman and he decided i'm
sick and tired of my feet getting wet
when i walk so he put rubber on the
bottom of the shoe you see so that
really caught on people started wearing
all kinds of rubber shoes like gouaches
things to keep their feet from getting
wet but they still weren't sneakers but
this was the first step towards sneakers
and you know what they call them
they call them
plimsolls
i know it sounds like i'm making it up
but that's the truth one problem with
the plimsolls is that they didn't have a
left foot shoe and a right foot shoe
they were both exactly the same but then
in 1892
there was an invention called the
sneaker and it had a rubber sole on the
bottom and canvas on the top
just like an artist would paint on a
canvas and people liked them a whole lot
because they had a left foot shoe and a
right foot shoe and they were very comfy
and they kept your feet dry and they
were very very quiet which is how they
got the name sneaker
because you could sneak up on people and
they wouldn't know what
that's essentially the story of the
sneaker they made some for sports and
they made some for walking and some for
hiking and eventually evolved over time
but the very very very very first
sneaker was called a plimsoll
which is just the weirdest and strangest
word i think i can think of
other than
smorgasbord or
pensacola or uh huh
honorific
wow huh that's it for the sneaker store
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