Shoebox
The shoe box (also: shoe box ) is a transport and sales packaging used for shoes , boots or other form-stable footwear , which can also be used as a storage container for the footwear.
history
Shoe boxes made of paper materials such as cardboard appeared around the middle of the 19th century in the course of the beginning industrial shoe production, when practical and at the same time inexpensive protective packaging was necessary for transport from the factory to the dealers. Since then, conventional materials such as wood or leather have been used less and less for shoe boxes and nowadays only appear in the corresponding accessories for very high-quality and high-priced shoes and bespoke shoes .
General
The traditional shape is mostly cuboid or cube-shaped , more rarely polygonal or even round or oval . Today a shoe box is mainly made of laminated or printed hard cardboard and is therefore often referred to as a shoe box . For protection, the shoes are usually wrapped in paper , e.g. B. wrapping paper or tissue paper ; Sometimes the shoe boxes are also filled with foam polystyrene balls or something similar.
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Shoe boxes are usually in two parts and usually consist of a taller, open-topped container . In the case of slip- lid boxes , the associated lids are designed as so-called (over-) slip-on lids, with flat lids (internal height approx. 35-50 mm) usually being used, and more rarely deep lids (height like the container). In addition, there are sometimes differently shaped boxes in which the lid is part of the container, such as hinged lids, which are usually connected to the container on one long side. Shoe boxes are sometimes also equipped with a grip hole , especially when used for (heavier) men's shoes, and rarely with corner reinforcements (case corners) made of metal or plastic.
The sizes of shoe boxes are mostly based on commercially available standard sizes, which on the one hand can accommodate the respective footwear in different shoe sizes, but on the other hand also take logistical requirements of transport and storage into account. Common inside dimensions for normal shoe boxes are around 200–205 mm wide, 320–340 mm long and 100–125 mm high; in the case of shoeboxes for children's shoes about 250–270 mm wide, 170–230 mm long and 100 mm high. Cardboard boxes for boots etc. are correspondingly larger. The shape, color and design of shoe boxes also depend on current trends and trends . They sometimes serve as “sales aids”, are often “ambassadors of the manufacturer's brand” (see corporate design ) and are therefore part of the overall design when buying shoes, so that many buyers attach great importance to this storage medium.
In 2005 over 90 million pairs of shoes were sold in Germany, of which the shoe retail chain Deichmann-Schuhe , which is the German market leader with a market share of two thirds , recorded over 60 million pairs. It can be assumed that the number of shoeboxes per year is slightly lower, i.e. almost 90 million in 2005. Analogous to the domestic shoe production of around 24 million pairs in 2005, it can be assumed that the German packaging industry produced well below 20 million shoe boxes domestically in the same year. The rest of the production of shoe boxes took place in the context of foreign shoe production also abroad, increasingly in the Asian area as in general with shoes.
Almost all shoe boxes are characterized by the fact that they can be opened and closed again quickly and non-destructively, which means that they are appropriately robust and durable. The reason is that shoes are usually tried on by customers before buying with regard to fit, walking comfort and fashionable appearance and a purchase decision is usually only made after trying on several shoe models. Shoe boxes therefore have to withstand several opening and closing processes undamaged and are therefore different from the usual transport and sales packaging. In addition, shoeboxes are sometimes "reused" by buyers as storage containers for the respective footwear.
Other uses of the shoebox
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In everyday culture , apart from their actual function as shoe containers, shoe boxes are often used as an all-purpose box for all sorts of stuff, especially for storing and collecting photos , stamps and small pieces of paper such as letters and notes. In the estate of the Swiss writer Robert Walser, for example, there was a shoebox with a myriad of his textual pencil miniatures, the so-called micrograms , which were only literarily evaluated long after his death.
As an all-purpose container, the shoebox is also used by the aid organization Gifts of Hope for the Christmas in Shoeboxes campaign supported in Germany , an international charitable initiative in which shoeboxes filled with small gifts are sent to people in need around the world during the Christmas season.
Such “misappropriations” of shoe boxes are sometimes also discussed in the fields of culture and science or used as a metaphor . For example, the Austrian writer and director Marlene Streeruwitz gave a lecture she gave in 2002 (as Samuel Fischer guest professor for literature at the Free University of Berlin ) in the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, which was highly regarded at the time and dealt with considerations on public language use in the debates after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 the provocative title: "From the life of hamsters in shoe boxes". The term “shoebox” or “shoebox” is often used in the sense of “simplicity” and then with a more negative meaning , such as the phrase “shoebox accounting” or “shoe box accounting”.
Concert hall type
Metaphorically rather than disparaging the designation is shoebox (English shoebox ) for long, rectangular concert halls used ( shoebox principle ). Such concert halls are relatively common, and their acoustics have been used by many composers such as Joseph Haydn to create effects.
See also
literature
- Günter Bleisch u. a .: Lexicon of packaging technology . 1st edition, Behr, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-86022-974-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deichmann has a record year . ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release from Heinrich Deichmann shoes , February 13, 2006.
- ↑ shoe industry. Industry sketch . ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. BMWi report , undated, accessed February 22, 2008.
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↑ Collecting as a passion . ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) Press release, Elmshorn Industrial Museum , January 19, 2006 ( PDF file) Tobia Bezzola: Collecting photos . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: From the photo collections of the Swiss Confederation , Federal Office for Culture and Edition Hochparterre, Switzerland, August 9, 2003 How do I keep old documents ...? ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from: Fundamentals of Family Research , on genealogie-forum.de, o. J .; Retrieved February 21, 2008.
- ^ Robert Walser and the micrograms . ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. mikrogramme.de , mahagonny - Theater Kunst Kulturarbeit Berlin e. V. , accessed February 21, 2008.
- ↑ On the life of hamsters in shoe boxes . ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. DAAD press release , January 23, 2002.
- ↑ Karl Leitner: Dramatic increase in bankruptcy in Upper Austria (Upper Austria) . ( Memento of March 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: WirtschaftsBlatt , December 18, 2003.
- ↑ Behavioral tips for failed bosses . Focus , undated, report on business start-ups ; Retrieved February 21, 2008.
