This is a project that we did
for a local brand in 2012, who was starting their first boutique in Greenbelt,
Makati.
We just developed &
perfected the real foldable driving shoes, also known as pocket shoes. My
product development team consisting of my pattern maker Cindy, upper maker
Marina, laster Ding & technical consultant Noel Box, toiled for almost a
week just for the foldable prototype.
We’ve repeated the patterns, creating superb techniques in extracting
the perfect fit from the shoelast so that the foldable driving shoes will fit
like a glove.
This was also an important part of Cindy’s training for court shoe footwear pattern making because this was the first time that Noel Box taught this technique.
This was also an important part of Cindy’s training for court shoe footwear pattern making because this was the first time that Noel Box taught this technique.
The construction of the sample prototype was repeated numerous times, trying all possible techniques in constructing the foldable shoes with a perfect fit & at the same time easy on the production line.
I tried not to notice all the wasted materials and hours of work, but the result really paid off since we’ve made the foldable driving shoes so much more comfortable close to what Salvatore Ferragamo has developed, thanks to Kuya Noel.
