Shoe is an essential part of our daily equipment and no body can leave their shoe in daily activity. Commonly people need at least 1 pair of shoe every year, special for woman may be need more than 2 pairs each year. Every month millions pairs of shoes are produced to fill world consumption and around 60% made in Asia region.
The shoe industry absorb millions people as employee, that’s why shoe industry become one of big industry in the world. Even generally shoes are produced in mass production but still there are some segments in market for limited edition shoes like Blowfish shoes.
If we focus on hand made or normally called home industry shoe, there is some point plus inside the product:
- The quantity of produced shoe is limited, so it can be let’s say exclusive shoe. Most of middle and high class people like this kind of shoe
- The most quality is depend on the personal skill of employee, it can say the quality can not controlled 100%
- The size of shoe based on order. For example for Blowfish women’s shoes commonly produced size (UK) 3 – 8 and for Blowfish men’s shoes are produced from size 5 – 13 (UK).
- Most of hand made shoe using leather or imitation leather and only focus on casual or formal category.
To make a shoe need enough just have skill for process but need a knowledge about material, process and bottom part technology. The art sense can convert the shoe performance become nice and interesting shoe. My opinion is hand made shoe will always stay as along as people need a shoe.