Derived designs from basic styles Ankle Strap: Shoe with a strap that fastens around the ankle. Ballet shoe: Also called ballet slipper, is a lightweight shoe designed specifically for ballet dancing. It may be made from soft leather, canvas, or satin, and ... Read more...
Types of Footwear Footwear is classified according to uses. Invariably the styling and design of footwear vary according to users too like for gents, ladies, and children. Climatic requirements in different seasons of the year, price, comfort, locally available materials all these affect the styles... Read more...
Heel height and Toe spring Heel is introduced in the shoe to give uniform weight distribution on the foot. But as the heel height increase the weight bearing by the front part will be more. In high heel shoe, the foot is placed in extended position and knees also flexed slightly. As the he... Read more...
Springing and other ways of pattern development -Part 2 3.0 Other ways of folding patterns: Normally all the shoe pieces are unfolded using the center axis. For shoe pieces at heel area.They will be unfolded using a axis at counter. But in few cases the shoe pieces are need to unfolded using oth... Read more...
Springing and other ways of pattern development - Part 1 1.0 Introduction : This article explains the importance of the springing and how the springing will be done for individual pieces/standard . Also this document explains how shoe pieces are created/unfolded an axis using other than center... Read more...
GST to bring down footwear prices Over the years, multiple taxes from excise duty, CST, State VAT, octroi, other local body taxes, along with misguided rates of abatement, had made footwear un-competitive. New Delhi: The government has announced GST rate of 5% for footwear below Rs 500 and 1... Read more...
RSM process for material consumption calculation: For calculating pattern area we have to arrange the patterns in a sequence to get better interlocking. The objective is to get a parallelogram with the patterns including interlocking waste. Patterns can be arranged in two ways to make the par... Read more...
...Continued from Part-6 Ex: Finding the norms for the upper with the following data using Russ & Small method.. Model size=7, leather: Calf (brown), Area Discrepancy : 0.98, Shoe type: Medium Men, Order size: 6/50, 7/150, 8/100, 9/500, 10/200., Leather issued=24.7 s... Read more...
...Continued from Part-5 9. RSM: The first scientific method to estimate leather consumption was published in 1922 by W.W. Russ and F.L.Small in Boston, USA. Assume this is further extension of SLM. Their method consists of interlocking a Pattern until four patterns are facing the same direction.... Read more...
...Continued from Part-4 8. SLM: Scientific Leather Measurement was introduced to the shoe industry in early 1950s. It contain two separate components for allowance calculation i.e Pattern assessment and leather assessment. This system will not use old records. Its own records of usages and ar... Read more...
..Continued from Part-3 5. Square board method: In this method a board is used to calculate the area. The board may be wood, paper or hard board in rectangular with a size of 24” X 12” with rules (half and full inch). Lay the complete one pair of patterns on the board in the most compact and ... Read more...
...Continued from Part-2 3. Personal Administration (Approx. in 1951): During this period the scaling method was scrapped and method of measuring the pattern was introduced. From the past records a relationship between the leather area and the areas of the patterns were determined and a table... Read more...