Everyday Casual Dresses. While floor-length dresses used to be associated with formal evening wear, they are now a very chic dress option for everyday wear. A very popular casual floor-length dress is the maxi dress. The maxi dress is an informal, comfortable dress that can be worn to the beach, on a date, or to the office.
The Nike Swoosh is a corporate trademark created in 1971 by Carolyn Davidson, while she was a graphic design student at Portland State University. It was here that she met Phil Knight, who was at the time teaching accounting classes at the university.
He was 88. From 1917, when Keds, the first popularly marketed sneaker, was introduced, until the 1960's, sports footwear underwent little change. Then came the Nike team of Bowerman and Phil Knight, a former runner whom Bowerman had coached at Oregon.Bowerman and Knight sought to develop athletic shoes that were lighter and had more traction than longstanding designs.y RICHARD GOLDSTEIN. Bill Bowerman, a renowned track coach at the University of Oregon who spawned a revolution in athletic footwear and America's jogging boom while helping build a worldwide marketing powerhouse as the co-founder of Nike, died Friday at a retirement home in Fossil, Ore. He was 88.