The average temperature in Vienna in September is 15Â°C, which is already four degrees fewer than it was in August, but still also five degrees more than it will be in October. In the afternoons, the mercury climbs to a still comfortable 19Â°C high, but at night, it drops to a chillier low temperature of 10Â°C.
Trippen might well have been the predecessors of wooden shoes, or âklompenâ, as the footwear is called in Dutch. Anyhow, wooden shoes gained in popularity ever since the beginning of the 16th century. Because wooden shoes are made out of one piece, they proved to be a firm, practical and relatively cheap alternative. They protected the feet from dirt and formed a useful additive in the moistures Dutch climate.
By 1917, these sneakers began to be mass produced. (They got the nickname sneakers because they were so quiet, a person wearing them could sneak up on someone.) That same year, Marquis Converse produced the first shoe made just for basketball, called Converse All-Stars. In 1923, an Indiana hoops star named Chuck Taylor endorsed the shoes, and they became known as Chuck Taylor All-Stars. These are the best-selling basketball shoes of all time. Sneakers Go Global. Sneakers went international in 1924.