Gem Insoles. An insole for welt shoes of leather.
Glazed Kid. See Kid.
Glove Grain. A light, soft-finished, split leather, for women’s or children’s shoes or topping.
Goatskin. See Kid.
Goodyear Welt. A term used to denote the process of attaching the sole to the upper of a shoe by means of a narrow strip of leather called a welt.
Gore. A rubber elastic used in a congress shoe. It is also applied to the long, wedge-shaped piece of leather set in an upper to widen it.
Grading. The sorting of outsoles and half soles to get uniform weight in edges of finished shoes.
Half Sole. Half of a complete sole used in forepart of bottom under outsole.
Harness Leather. Similar to belting, and is made from hides heavier than kips.
Heel. Made of layers of leather or wood called liftings, and attached to rear part of shoe (heel seat). There are different varieties of heels. The French heel is an extremely high heel with a curved outline in back and front (breast). It is sometimes made of wood covered with leather, with thicknesses of sole leather, or all sole leather. The Cuban heel is a high, straight heel, without the curve of the French or “Louis XV” heel. Military heel is a straight heel not as high as the Cuban. A spring heel is a low heel formed by extending back the outside of the shoe to the heel, with a slip inserted between the outsole and heel slat. Wedge heel is somewhat similar to a spring heel, except that a wedge-shaped lift is tacked on the outside instead of a slit. Slugging heels is the process of affixing the made-up heel by one operation of the machine.