Adidas Stan Smith

The Stan Smith is a tennis shoe of the German sports goods manufacturer Adidas.

Adidas developed the shoe in 1971 with the model " Nastase " for the tennis player Ilie Năstase and Stan Smith, who faced each other in 1972 in the finals at Wimbledon and won a doubles together in the same year. Horst Dassler was since the withdrawal of Robert Haillet - Adidas after 1965, almost same shoe named - in search of new active athletes whose name he could use. Daniel Dell, an American tennis manager, suggested the American Stan Smith. This took the offer to get royalties for the use of his name. For Adidas, the shoe was a market opener in the United States.

The shoe is similar to developed in 1969 basketball shoe Adidas Superstar, of which the sole, heel and side parts originate in many areas. Unlike the superstar of the Stan Smith has no front hard rubber cap, but a piece of leather. The hallmark of Adidas - the three stripes - is unlike the other models not sewn on the side, but in the upper, leather Initially, punched therein in the form of three rows of small holes.

As the hip-hop culture, the Adidas brand discovered in the 1990s, Adidas Stan Smith began, the superstar and other products as " Adidas Originals " hang up. By 2005 Adidas sold 40 million pairs of the model. Were offered special edition models with different color and material combinations, such as the Adicolor - shipped with colors for self-painting - or a model with a green surface and an image of Kermit the Frog.

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