What are men's shoes? Men's shoes literally mean men's shoes. At present, many categories include leather shoes, formal shoes, casual shoes, sports shoes, running shoes and dance shoes. The main feature of men's shoes is exquisite elegance, which shows the business, atmosphere and leisure side of men. At present, there are thousands of styles and types of men's shoes. Men's shoes, as the name implies, are shoes worn by male friends. Men's shoes are mainly divided into three categories: formal shoes (including quasi-formal shoes), casual shoes and etiquette shoes. The analysis before the design of men's shoes is to shape men's masculinity and reflect men's sense of authority and status. Generally, the modeling design of men's shoes should grasp a rigorous, solemn, noble or straightforward modeling style, which is reflected in the modeling elements such as shoe modeling, structural style, color, material, accessories and patterns. For high-end men's shoes, exquisite manufacturing technology is essential. The design of men's shoes should be classified according to age and class, because the gap between them often leads to great differences in their choice of shoes and boots, and the root of this difference lies in the fact that the above two factors often make men have different values and aesthetics. Young men usually have a strong personality and pursue fashionable, avant-garde and uniquely designed shoes and boots. By putting on these unique shoes and boots, they proved their existence, an independent spirit and an unruly nature. This kind of personality pursuit of young men is outstanding in sports shoes, avant-garde shoes, roller skates and casual shoes. Therefore, when designing and developing these shoes, shoe designer should not only design specific functions more reasonably and fully, but also try to create unique effects on the appearance of these shoes. Adult men become more and more mature psychologically, treat things more and more rationally, and their personality is gradually implicit, which is reflected in the change from wearing shoes and boots to pursuing generosity, solemnity and comfort. In addition, adult men's pursuit of social status and power makes men pay more attention to the symbolic functions of many items, such as clothing, shoes and boots, cars and so on. Therefore, under certain conditions, many adult men pay great attention to brand and noble sense when choosing many items to show their status and accomplishment. Therefore, they pay more attention to their own brand, function, symbolism and comfort, rather than pursuing excessive fashion in the appearance style of shoes. Through the above analysis, as a designer of men's shoes, we should first classify and analyze the wearing objects, and then design and develop new products according to specific male consumers, specific use purposes and use occasions. With the rapid development of today's times, the purpose and occasion of wearing shoes are becoming more and more detailed, and men choose different kinds and styles of shoes in different work and life occasions. Although this consumption trend and change of men's shoes is slower than that of women's shoes, it has fully predicted the development direction of men's wear design in the future. With the appearance of new consumption concept and fashion of men's shoes and boots, and the application of new materials and technologies, the design of men's shoes will surely have greater development. First, the design of men's formal shoes Men's formal shoes are a common kind of shoes, which are generally matched with formal clothes such as suits. Men's formal shoes, also known as gentlemen's shoes, refer to men's shoes with solemn and generous appearance without too much decoration (color map 7 1). The most typical traditional men's dress shoes are inner ear three-joint leather shoes (Oxford shoes) and outer ear three-joint leather shoes, and shoes with ear buckles (also called monk shoes) also belong to dress shoes. Nowadays, men's dress shoes are not limited to the above styles. Some simple and generous flat shoes, tongue shoes, front shoes and "Moccsin" shoes can be worn as formal shoes. With the development of the times and the appearance of yuppies, quasi-formal shoes with individual style have appeared. On the basis of adhering to the traditional dress shoes, this kind of shoes pursue a personality and its unique taste in modeling. Generally speaking, the shape of a shoe last is not too weird, and sometimes it will follow the formal shoe last style, such as shovel head, square head and inclined head. However, some unique and personalized designs have been made in structural style, material selection and accessories decoration. On the one hand, men wear formal shoes on specific occasions, which should be matched with suits and dresses. On the other hand, men choose to wear formal shoes to show their self-cultivation and status. Therefore, the design of men's formal shoes must be carried out under the noble, elegant and generous overall modeling style, and fully show a delicate sense of craftsmanship in the products, that is, there must be exquisite craftsmanship. The design of men's formal shoes is characterized by subtle changes in modeling elements, small range, and attention to the harmony between various modeling elements. The design of high-grade dress shoes pays special attention to the selection of high-grade materials, including upper materials, sole materials, accessories and various accessories. In addition, the design of formal shoes is greatly influenced by fashion (mainly the shape and materials of shoe last). The traditional style of three-stage formal shoes is basically fixed and stylized, and generally there will be no major design changes, such as the fixed ratio between the length of the head, the length of the upper and the length of the shoe body, and the fixed position of the foot of the upper. Of course, the shape, proportion and position of the above-mentioned fixed parts are not absolutely unchanged, and slight design changes are allowed, such as slightly lengthening and thinning the shoe shape (last shape). But the traditional style is almost perfect, and people have formed a format for its aesthetics. In order to meet the needs of this part of consumers, the traditional three-stage formal shoes can basically remain unchanged in design. (1) modeling design The modeling design of men's formal shoes includes the modeling design of three-dimensional modeling of the toe (last-shaped modeling design) and the planar outline modeling design of the upper parts. The modeling design of men's formal shoes generally excludes the traditional three-headed shoes. As mentioned above, this kind of shoes has its fixed stylized form, and changing its unique modeling format is often counterproductive. Generally speaking, no matter what the structural style of formal shoes is, on the one hand, we should pay attention to controlling the range of changes, following and pursuing the overall modeling style of formal shoes, on the other hand, we should pay attention to the fashion (mainly last type) of formal shoes at that time. The modeling design of striped tongue-shaped men's formal shoes focuses on the change design and head design of stripes, and stripes can also be regarded as accessories. Generally, the design changes of horizontal stripes are accomplished by hollowing out, stringing flowers, weaving flowers, inlaying and other decorative techniques. If it is an advanced men's dress shoe, the design of horizontal stripes should be elegant and novel, and at the same time, it should make people feel exquisite during the decoration process of this shape. The style design of dress toe should not only make some subtle modeling changes, but also pay attention to the combination with fashion. The modeling design of dress shoes (monk shoes) with ear buckles focuses on the head design and shoe drill modeling design. The head design should be generous and novel, but not exaggerated. The style of mixed ribbon should be coordinated with the head shape of shoes. If the head shape is elegant and slender, then the ribbon mix type should be slightly narrow and slender. (2) Color design The colors of men's dress shoes are generally black and brown, and they are usually matched with one color. Brown red, brown yellow, white, beige, brown and other colors are also acceptable. The color matching design of men's formal shoes is greatly influenced by fashion. Due to the use and nature of men's formal shoes, color matching design generally requires calm and implicit, and excessive pure and bright colors cannot be used. If you use two colors, you should use similar colors. (3) Material design The material of men's formal shoes is generally fine-grained, soft, smooth and plump calf leather and calf leather. For high-grade men's formal shoes, rare and high-grade upper materials are essential, such as crocodile skin, ostrich skin and shark skin. Natural leather is often used as sole material to make shoes more breathable. The design and application of the upper material of senior men's formal shoes pay great attention to the special texture of senior materials and the application of other ordinary upper materials with good texture. This design can not only save senior shoe materials, but also make shoes feel noble. In addition, due to different textures, it can also form a comparative aesthetic feeling. The key to the design of the application of different material combinations is that the arrangement of the shapes and positions of parts made of different materials should be innovative. (4) Accessories design The accessories design of dress shoes depends on the structural style. Under normal circumstances, ear-type three-stage dress shoes and front-opening dress shoes are not equipped with any accessories; Tongue dress shoes usually need to be equipped with a small logo accessory, or not; Tongue-shaped shoes are made by adding horizontal accessories to the back of tongue-shaped shoes, and there are many styles changes in tongue-shaped shoes; Generally speaking, dress shoes with ear buckles should be equipped with shoe brazing accessories with both practical value and decorative function, and now nylon adhesive buckles are also used instead of shoe brazing. Accessories often play a finishing touch role in formal shoes. Therefore, the design principle of formal dress shoe accessories is to coordinate with the overall modeling style of shoes, which has high artistry and really plays the role of embellishment, beautification and logo. The signboard installed on the dress shoes not only plays the role of decoration and beautification, but also has the practical function of brand recognition and publicity. Whether the brand logo of shoemaking enterprises is novel, unique and beautiful directly determines the functional effect of the logo on formal shoes. The logo on the dress shoes should be small and slender; There is a regular contour shape on the modeling contour, that is, the logo pattern is in a complete contour modeling, and there is also a free form, that is, the logo has no regular contour shape. For example, some logo outlines use the lettered or figurative pattern outlines of brand LOGO. Dress shoes generally have three colors: gold, silver and bronze. Gold and bronze are suitable for matching all kinds of dress shoes, while silver is not suitable for matching brown and brown, and is suitable for matching other colors of upper materials. The marking materials of dress shoes should be coordinated with the shoe materials. Metal or imitation metal is better for ordinary dress shoes. High-grade shoe materials and brand-name dress shoes can be made of high-grade metal materials such as gold plating, 18K gold and sterling silver, which fully set off the luxury of high-grade dress shoes. It is very important to deal with the logo of dress shoes. Assembling a rough logo on exquisite dress shoes will be extremely uncoordinated, which will greatly reduce the overall quality of shoes. The striped accessories on the striped tongue dress shoes are often the aesthetic visual center of this style of shoes, and designers should pay special attention to the design here. In addition to the novelty and novelty in modeling design, horizontal bar accessories should also be deeply considered. Unique or exquisite technology can make horizontal bar accessories have a unique aesthetic feeling, especially leather horizontal bar accessories. Generally speaking, the color of the horizontal bar accessories on formal shoes should be consistent with the color of the upper material. If it is a metal piece, gold and silver can be used, and silver is most suitable for the black upper material. Leather and metal are the main materials of horizontal bar fittings. Leather is soft, elegant, kind and harmonious, while metal is cold, rigorous, confident and resolute. The accessories design of formal shoes with straps and ear buckles mainly focuses on the shin. The design changes of this kind of shoes are generally in the shape changes of the head (last), straps and ears of the shoes. Shoe shin plays an important role in the overall modeling of this style of shoes, and designers should carefully design it. The modeling design of shoe drill should follow the principle of combining generosity with novelty. Only generosity, without novelty, will lose its decorative aesthetic function, and only novelty (or strangeness) does not conform to the essence of dress shoes. In terms of color, brown or brown upper materials are suitable for matching gold or bronze shoes, and black upper materials are suitable for matching silver, gold and bronze. There are two kinds of brazing materials for shoes: bright and matt. Generally speaking, the texture effect of accessories is better than that of uppers. For example, matching a shiny shin with crocodile skin, ostrich skin and other diffuse light textures on the upper will give the upper a aesthetic feeling of material contrast. The appearance of quasi-dress shoes is accompanied by the appearance of western yuppies. The so-called yuppies are a group of people who grew up in the fifties and sixties, received a good education, had a high income and a high social status, and were out of tune with society. They advocate freedom, pursue individuality liberation and are anti-traditional, but these people are gentle and reserved in the way they treat things, unlike the punk family who appeared later. So some quasi-orthodox things that break through the convention but keep a certain connection with tradition have become their pursuit, and quasi-formal shoes have emerged as the times require. Of course, it is not necessarily yuppies who like quasi-formal shoes now, and some young people with personality are becoming more and more obsessed with this type of shoes. The design of quasi-dress shoes belongs to the "golden mean" design. In the overall design style, we should not only have a traditional generous, dignified and elegant, noble side, but also have an innovative personality side. Generally speaking, the quasi-formal shoes are anti-unification and anti-trend, but they do not completely abandon the tradition, but show the existence of individuality in the tradition and create contradictions in harmony. The modeling design of quasi-formal shoes mainly includes head design, structural design and upper modeling design. For these three aspects of design, designers can make breakthroughs in one or several aspects, and the innovative design in form has a great influence on the overall design effect of dress shoes. The method of modeling design is generally to make moderate changes or exaggerations on the basis of traditional styles. For example, in the traditional three-stage style, designers can make the head shape of shoes sharper, more square or thinner, longer and so on. If you change the length ratio from the head to the upper part and the ear part, the ear part will become more square or round, and you can also add some decorative techniques and accessories. Color map 75 is a typical quasi-dress shoe. Designers made bold designs on the structural styles of shoes, and made a unique combination of various familiar traditional styles. In order to break the orthodox style, the designer also broke the seams in the middle of the toe and on both sides of the tongue, and combined with the rough cable laying technology and material comparison, this shoe type contains a strange sense of disharmony in novelty and generosity, which fully shows the unique taste of quasi-formal shoes. In addition to the commonly used black, brown and brown, the color design of quasi-formal shoes can also use bright and bright colors such as brown red, brown yellow, beige and white. From the color point of view, this kind of shoes are shaped very sexy, showing the unique taste of quasi-formal shoes. The material design of formal shoes pays attention to the collocation of different materials, such as patent leather and crocodile leather, embossed leather with unique patterns or woven leather with full grain leather without patterns, which can obtain unique visual effects. Quasi-formal shoes with metal accessories should pay full attention to the design and application of accessories. Accessories can play a great role in shaping the style of dress shoes. This effect is often manifested by the strange shape, increased volume and cold texture of accessories. Second, the design of men's casual shoes The concept of casual shoes emerged with the pursuit of leisure lifestyle after the 1980s. The concept of casual shoes, like its style, has not been clearly defined and standardized. Generally speaking, casual shoes are relaxing shoes that people wear after work. This kind of shoes is not limited by the structural style, and can be ear type, tongue type, "steamed stuffed bun" type or ear buckle type. The typical appearance style and technique of this kind of shoes is to sew an outer line on the bottom edge to strengthen the combination of the upper and the sole, which is natural and rough. In terms of structural style, the ear-shaped lacing structure with good foot binding is adopted, and the outsole is full-soled or the heel is low. This material is wear-resistant, light in weight and good in elasticity. The upper materials are mostly suede leather, frosted leather, embossed leather or rough cotton and linen fabrics and other natural materials. In addition, this kind of shoes borrows travel shoes and sports shoes at the mouth, and generally adds soft fillers to make the feet feel more comfortable in activities. Of course, casual shoes are not limited to the characteristics of the above styles, techniques and materials. In fact, the style characteristics, technological characteristics and use functions of casual shoes are constantly developing and changing. In order to meet people's different needs, in recent years, there has been a trend of combining leisure shoes with other footwear, which has continuously expanded the functions of leisure shoes. Casual shoes, for example, are more formal and have a rigorous, generous and elegant appearance style of formal shoes, but they also have a thick and soft outsole, full last shape, so that the feet can relax in the shoe cavity, and the edge of the shoe mouth is covered with a thin layer of soft filler, so that even if you walk a lot, you will not feel uncomfortable near your ankle. This kind of shoes satisfies people's desire to make their feet feel comfortable on formal occasions. Another example is the movement of casual shoes. The appearance of these shoes is a mixture of two kinds of shoes, just like leisure and sports, both functions can be realized, satisfying consumers' desire for exercise and fitness. With the increasing richness of modern life, casual shoes will develop in many aspects and be combined with the functions and characteristics of various shoes. The design of men's casual shoes should first meet the practical functional requirements, that is, wearing comfort, mainly through structural design and materials. In the case of satisfying practical functions, the design of men's casual shoes should pay attention to fashion and personalized performance, and the specific grasp degree, modeling style tendency and functional tendency should depend on specific consumers, use purposes and environment. The general principles of men's casual shoes design are comfort, relaxation and sexiness. (I) Modeling Design The main contents of modeling design for men's casual shoes include toe modeling design (last modeling design), structural design and upper component modeling design. Among them, the modeling design of uppers can be divided into two types: plane profile modeling design and three-dimensional composition modeling design, and the latter is mainly used for the modeling design of leisure sandals. Toe-style modeling design of men's casual shoes, first of all, let the front of the foot have enough space inside the toe, and don't make the foot feel uncomfortable for the novelty of modeling. Generally speaking, the toe shape of men's casual shoes is seeking changes in a relatively wide and full form. The upper design of men's casual shoes plays an important role in the design of men's casual shoes, and it is one of the important components of the visual aesthetic feeling of men's casual shoes. The modeling design of the upper parts of men's casual shoes includes the modeling design of all parts of the upper, with emphasis on the ear parts, which is the focus of the whole shoe shape design of men's casual shoes. Usually, the plane contour of the ear is changed or various decorative techniques are used to form a novel visual effect. (2) Natural colors designed with peaceful, elegant and warm colors are the main uses of men's casual shoes, and coffee, camel, brown, brown, khaki, beach color and beige are the common colors of men's casual shoes. Using these colors to form the same color collocation can achieve better color matching effect. Generally, the color matching design of men's casual shoes will not use cool colors with high purity. When casual shoes are matched with cool colors and warm colors, it is usually necessary to reduce the purity of cool colors to reduce the coldness, seriousness and tension caused by high-purity cool colors. Casual shoes specially designed for trendy and avant-garde young people can be matched with high-purity cool colors and warm colors, thus obtaining a strong color contrast effect and satisfying young people's psychology of pursuing enthusiasm, freshness and individual expression. (3) Material design The material design and color design of men's casual shoes are the same, and materials should be used around the style attributes of casual shoes. The material of men's casual shoes should be suede leather, matte leather, oil tanned leather, embossed leather, cotton and linen fabric, etc. , warm, friendly, delicate texture, and patent leather, pearlescent leather and other materials with exaggerated texture effects are generally not used. Advanced casual shoes can be matched with some rare materials such as crocodile skin, ostrich skin and mang snake skin. (IV) Application of Decorative Techniques The decorative techniques of men's casual shoes include: sewing stalks, punching holes, stringing flowers, sewing thread, weaving flowers, embroidery and so on. In the application of decorative technology, we should pay attention to the innovative design of pattern modeling, quantity, position, color, texture and other related factors, which directly determine the effect of decorative technology application. Third, the design of men's gift shoes Men's gift shoes are a kind of shoes worn with dresses when attending important social occasions. You can also wear it with a suit or other more formal clothes. The typical styles of men's gift shoes are three-section shoes with dovetail head and flower hole and tassel somersault shoes. The style of gift shoes is characterized by perforated uppers, lace and tassels, which are gorgeous and noble and classical in style. The modeling design of men's wedding shoes mainly focuses on the head shape. The head design of wedding shoes should be changed under the principle of left-right symmetry (small round head is the most typical), and the structural style has been basically formatted, that is, a tassel is added to the three-stage head-ear strap and the shoe back strap, or the tassel is directly designed on the turned-out long tongue. The punching decoration of three-stage men's gift shoes with swallowtail and flower holes is generally round holes, which are generally arranged at the edge of the parts. Usually, a slightly larger round hole and two vertical small round holes are regularly arranged at intervals. The change of perforated decoration is mainly in Baotou. Designers can give full play to their imagination and create various patterns composed of round holes in Baotou. The tassel flip wedding shoes are mainly for changing the tassel part. The tassel part is either turned out by the tongue or added separately. Generally, the tassel part is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and the length reaches the toe. The tassel part is generally decorated with perforated round holes. Generally, the color design of men's wedding shoes will not use cool colors. The most common and ideal monochrome color scheme is brown, and other colors such as black, camel and white are also acceptable. Men's gift shoes with two colors can also achieve very good results. Typical two-color collocation designs are black and white, brown and white, dark brown and light beige. Different shades of color are treated as follows: Baotou and the back are darker, and the middle side is lighter. This two-color collocation was all the rage in 1930s, and it is still popular today. The materials used in men's gift shoes are generally high-quality and high-grade full-grain cowhide with delicate texture, moderate luster and noble feeling.