The different parts of the footwear, materials used vary. Our feet fairy explain point by point the various materials found in our shoes to become a true professional of leather and co!
Top to bottom, is first found the outsole (composition: leather in the collar, alphacellulose, cardboard, rope and synthetic materials)
Then the sole of cleanliness, so dear to RED CARPET! They may be leather, fabric, or synthetic.
The sole for wear in the form of leather, rubber, wood, plastic, rope or synthetic.
The heel to give height girls! It is present in different materials such as wood, plastic, light alloy, the synderme (i.e. leather falls related to glue and resin), leather and good-end.
Then, to finish on the stem of the shoe, it is the part that wraps the foot outside. It is made or derived leather, fabrics, crèpe, metal, plastic, rope, wood or synthetic materials.
It knows all leather, nubuck, the daim… But do we know really the difference and origin of its contents? Rattrapage… session
In the family of leathers, I call:
The noble Nubuck= bovine leather on the outer side, the (smooth) flower, sanded to a velvety soft aspect, it gives very beautiful colors but is more fragile
Nice veal velvet= leather ends and presented on the side chair (sweet), coarser than the nubuck velvety aspect
The soft buckskin= describes more leather of this animal, but a leather "soft" appearance. He shortly be veal-velvet or Nubuck
The delicate buff= has now obtained from sheep-skin is tanned with fish oil
Wild leather crust= lower part of a slice in the thickness of the leather which is that the room has two side chair (sweet) and not of flower (side smooth)
The art Box calf= leather whose surface was smoothed artificially
The natural Nappa= skin in full flower (side smooth retained) and hue in depth
In the family of "imitation" of leather, we retrouvons…
The Synderme= falls of leather amalgamated with fibres of paper, glue and resin.
The synthetic leather= non-woven fabric of synthetic fibres (polyamide or polyamide micro most of the time) clotted in a resin, polyurethane generally.
The skaï= obtained by a textile coating. The skaï is a trademark German reproducing an aspect of leather but to properties and much lower costs.
Good to know: the "real leather" logo ensures that the material used is a leather of full flower (including the outer surface of leather, the most noble part) that is to say all those presented above except the crust leather.