The "Hand-Made Leather Shoes" Business Is Becoming Increasingly Cold And Closed.

Hand made leather shoes have been a sight for a while, but now they are "helpless". Business is not as good as a day.

The shoemaker who made money by this craft groans was "reluctant to spend the day" and was ready to go back to his home.

In a quiet alley in Longhu village of Shantou, the reporter saw a couple lowering their heads in the shop, busy with sewing shoes by hand, and a little mess in the shop.

On the shop, there is also 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According to the shoemaker from Zhejiang, shoemaking is out of date.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, the cold handmade business was revealed.

Allegedly, manual

In the late 90s of last century, it seemed that the public 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 store rentals and labor costs in recent years, it is entirely hand-made to make money.

Shops or shutting down or diverting, only a few of the remaining few are operating reluctantly.

"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.