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Footwear
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INTRODUCTION TO STUDY:-
Footwear is estimated to have started its long history of human use during the Ice age some 5 million years ago. Unkind weather conditions are said to have created the necessity of the footwear. Other evidences show that footwear came to use at end of the Paleolithic period, at about the same time the early humans learned the art of leather training.
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• Some of the retailer’s are reluctant to disclose some details in spite of their busy schedule
• There may be error due to respondent’s basis
HISTORY OF FOOTWEARS:-
Spanish cave drawings from more than 15,000 years ago show humans with animal skins or furs wrapped around their feet. The body of a well-preserved “ice-man” nearly 5,000 years old wears leather foot coverings stuffed with straw. Shoes, in some form or another, have been around for a very long time. The evolution of foot coverings, from the sandal to present-day athletic shoes that are marvels of engineering, continues even today as we find new materials with which to cover our feet.
INDIAN FOOTWEAR COMPONENTS INDUSTRY
The footwear component industry is a segment of leather industry in India. The footwear component which are mainly exported from India are leather shoe uppers and leather unit soles. The estimated annual production capacity of leather shoe upper’s is 112 million pairs. The major production centers are Chennai, Ranipet, Agra, Tamilnadu etc.