If you, too, are eager to put away the winter boots in favor of fresh white sneakers for spring, might we recommend some Keds? Specifically ... Swerdloff says. The shoes are over 50 percent ...

Because of this, they became known as 'sneakers', and in 1917 the Keds shoe company was set up to sell them to America. In the late 1890s a British company called J.W. Foster and Sons (now known as ...

Pro-Keds was conceived as performance footwear for top athletes and quickly gained recognition in basketball, American football, running ... It was the official shoe of the five-time NBA champion ...