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PRODUCT / FICTIONAL EXAMPLE
Shoe last
The form a shoe is built on. Every panel is cut and lasted against it, so the last is the specification the rest of the shoe is measured against.
How it is made.
A wood and resin last with the toe spring, the waist and the heel curve that a shoe takes from it. Two shoes made on different lasts may share a size designation and fit nothing alike.
Illustrative specification
- Length
- Example · 268 mm, EU 42
- Toe spring
- Example · 8 mm
- Waist girth
- Example · 212 mm
- Heel height
- Example · 24 mm
- Material
- Example · resin-filled beech
- Tolerance
- Example · ±0.4 mm
Every value above is an illustrative example for a fictional range. It is not a quotation, a capability statement or a measurement of any real product.
Why the last is the specification.
Because every panel is cut and lasted against it. A change to the toe spring or the waist moves every panel, so the last is the only drawing that can change and the rest follow.
What a photograph cannot show.
The fit. Two lasts of the same length and girth can differ across the instep and the ball, and the difference is a shoe that fits and a shoe that does not.