Manual customization Leather shoes were once popular for a while, but now they are "helpless". Business is not as good as a day. The shoemaker, who made money by this craft, lamented that he was "barely getting along" and was preparing to "collect" and return to his hometown.

In a quiet alley of Longhu village in Shantou, the reporter saw that a couple was lowering their heads in the shop, busy with hand stitching shoes. The shop was a bit cluttered. The old shoes were placed on the shoes rack, and there was a pungent glue smell in the shop. According to the shoemaker from Zhejiang, shoemaking is out of date. "There's nothing to report. Can you bring us business after your report?" behind the words, this hand-made business is also revealed. Frigid 。

It is said that the handmade footwear industry flourishing stage was in the middle and late 90s of last century, when the citizens seemed to be fashionable to customize hand-made leather shoes. As a result, there are many shoe factories in Jinsha, Longhu and big cellars. The shoemaker basically comes from Zhejiang Wenzhou or Fujian Jinjiang. But now, with the popularity of all kinds of fashionable elements in the market, leather shoes products are becoming more and more popular, and the relatively unitary customized leather shoes are gradually losing their attraction to customers, especially the fashionable young people. Coupled with the high cost of shop rents and labor costs in recent years, hand-made leather shoes shops which are entirely handmade or earn money are closed or diverted. Management 。 "It takes three or four days to make a pair of hand-made leather shoes from the customer's size, leather shoes and leather shoes. Nowadays, most of the custom-made leather shoes are elderly, or people with special foot sizes. Young people seldom make customized products. Only a pair of leather shoes deducts costs and only earns twenty or thirty yuan. It's better to go home to work in the countryside, "said Lao Wang, a shoe maker in Wenzhou, in the Palace Lane of Jinsha Township, telling reporters that he was cleaning up the store's stock and preparing for the end of the store's expiry.