SHOES IN DEVELOPMENT AND ROLE IN COLOMBIA

The shoe story follows the trade of shoemakers, which began more than 14,000 years, evolve into the stone age because women were the people responsible for the designation clothing for the whole family. Similarly in the story, because Egypt is involved in the evolution of this country was unwrapping the shoe through craftsmanship from design workshops sandals, belts design, including sketches.

This entonce shoemakers created various workshops located in the city streets and at key points of the same, making them call Zapatería street. Within the story, the shoemakers used certain conditions for those who would like to enter into your guild from the X and XI century used: 2 "could be only those coming apprentices" an orderly and virtuous marriage, both by father mother's side "or those married to a widow shoemaker". (blog Eugenia Di Prego, 2008).

As demanded chastity of families and marriages pure, also required that he wanted to be with them was to spend 14 days in a shoe shop to check their talent and skill. The shoemakers were the field and work with few resources performing simple and inexpensive footwear for farmers.

Within the history of footwear has always prevailed in the daily lives of people especially men is because from the beginning when man start work options the primary use for this were the boots, which were considered very masculine. In the mid-twelfth and thirteenth centuries, changing the leather footwear was noticing because new designs began to emerge as peak shoes, using different materials like wood to leather to keep feet comfortably and dry them walking. Also, according to the range of power that each person had the type of footwear changed and the selection of the design was exclusively for people with higher ranks in society.

The raw materials used for the production of Colombian shoes are rubber, plastic and leather, the latter being the most used because the chain is made up of leather subsectors as cattle ranches, refrigerators, slaughterhouses and tanneries. Thanks to this, it is necessary to import raw materials from other countries, so that the production of footwear is easy, cheap and high quality.

After 90 subsectors of leather began to position within the top nationally, because they started to bring the country's foreign exchange market, the growth of the economy, job creation and other factors.

more practice used in the footwear industry is the leather industry, where the main raw material is raw skin, which represents between 60% and 70% of the cost of the final product. The tanning process requires high chemical technology which use a lot of chemicals that pollute the environment and human health. This practice is still carried out in a very empirical in our country, therefore, people who work in this medium not know the damage they do to the environment or to themselves.

There are 20 or 30 tanneries in Colombia modernized and technologically advanced, but they are mostly artisanal tanneries informal and low technology, which also are found in both rural areas and as in the big city. The tanner subsector devotes 80% of production to supply the domestic market supplying raw materials for footwear and leather goods also generate other leather products like conglomerates, soaps, capsules, candles, toys, dogs, etc..

Similarly within the footwear development in Colombia, the drastic changes presented in leather have been notorious because of the designs, colors, textures and materials recursion with the same cuero.3 (Agustín Gómez, 2000)

Today the shoe becomes a circle through fashion due to modern changes and the combination with the old for many is something quirky and other chick within natural human dress.