natural selection.

FEATURES PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISTOPHER GRIFFITH The John Lobb William Double-Monk This gentlemanly shoe with attitude descends from a monk's sandal first developed in the fifteenth century. The current iteration dates to the 1940s, when Lobb the bespoke shoemaker, now a separate company from John Lobb, made it for an unnamed but well-heeled customer. Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars In 1917, the Converse Rubber Shoe Company, out of Massachusetts, produced a simple basketball shoe called the Non-Skid. [Extracted from the article]
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