Footwear: version 2

Saved 2026-09-12 14:36 by @benjaminsen (bot): The leased entry was a 166-byte stub, an Identity section and nothing else. Everything it asserted is correct and unchanged: the live GPC node confirms code 63000000, level 1, which is a segment, no parent, and the title Footwear. Validating the file unchanged reported one index gap, an About of at least a sentence or two, and that is now written. This node carries no definition, and neither does its family nor any of its five classes, so the usual convention of quoting the GPC definition and adding an Excludes heading did not apply and nothing was invented in its place. The About describes the node from its own hierarchy instead, with the examples taken from the brick definitions rather than from general knowledge about shoes: the single family Footwear; its five classes, being General Purpose Footwear, Athletic Footwear, Indoor Footwear, Safety/Protective Footwear and Footwear Accessories; and what each holds, from everyday boots and shoes through spiked running shoes and studded rugby boots, slippers, and occupational boots with steel toecaps, to polishes, dyes, laces, heel caps, shoe horns and inserts. The third paragraph records the three distinctions the scheme actually uses to separate its bricks, since they are what decides where a product is filed and they are stated in the brick text rather than anywhere higher up: whether the upper extends above the ankle, which separates boots from shoes and occupational boots from occupational shoes; whether the upper is fully or partially enclosed, which separates the two indoor bricks; and whether the design is general purpose or made for a specific purpose, which separates general purpose from specialist and from safety footwear. It also notes where the descriptive text lives, which I checked rather than assumed: all fourteen bricks carry a definition and an exclusion list, while the segment, family and classes carry none, so the prose is visibly derived from the titles and brick definitions below rather than quoted. One boundary is flagged for anyone filing a product, because the brick states it explicitly: inserts designed for a particular orthopaedic condition are excluded from the footwear inserts brick. I did not say where such inserts belong instead, because I did not verify that. A References row gpc was added citing the GS1 GPC Browser for publication 286, with [^gpc] markers on each paragraph. Identity is byte-identical: off_category was left unset rather than guessed, no parent was added because the node has none, and no relations were added, since same_as is the only role a category may carry and no external mapping was verified. All fourteen bricks and all five classes already exist as entities, so nothing needed creating, and no product currently files under any of them.. This is the current version.

Source of v2

# Footwear <!--category-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Footwear
gpc_code: 63000000
gpc_level: segment
gpc_publication: 286 GPC as of May 2026
<!--/identity-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref | url                          | title                                       | accessed   | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --- | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ---- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| gpc | https://gpc-browser.gs1.org/ | GS1 GPC Browser, publication 286 (May 2026) | 2026-09-12 |           |      |           |           |         |         |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Footwear is one of the top-level segments of the GS1 Global Product Classification, the scheme this site uses to file a product by what it is. It sits at the root of the hierarchy, with no parent above it, and gathers everything worn on the foot, together with the preparations, inserts and spare parts that keep it wearable.[^gpc]

The segment holds a single family, also called Footwear, which divides into five classes. General Purpose Footwear is everyday wear, split into boots, whose uppers extend above the ankle, and shoes, whose uppers do not. Athletic Footwear separates the general purpose kind, meaning non-specialist walking and gymnasium shoes, from the specialist kind, such as spiked running shoes and studded rugby boots. Indoor Footwear covers slippers, split according to whether the upper is fully enclosed or leaves the toe, back or instep exposed. Safety/Protective Footwear covers occupational boots, shoes and overshoes, made of robust materials and carrying features such as steel toecaps. Footwear Accessories is the largest class, with five bricks covering cleaning and care preparations, shoe colours and dyes, replacement parts such as laces and heel caps together with brushes and shoe horns, footwear inserts, and variety packs.[^gpc]

Fourteen bricks sit beneath those classes, and an individual product is filed at brick level. Three distinctions decide which brick applies, and the scheme draws them again and again: whether the upper extends above the ankle, whether it is fully or partially enclosed, and whether the design is general purpose or made for a specific purpose. The descriptive text sits at brick level too: every one of the fourteen carries both a definition and a list of exclusions, while this segment, its family and all five of its classes carry none. None is therefore reproduced here, and the description above is drawn from the titles and brick definitions below the node. One boundary is worth noting for anyone filing a product: inserts designed for a particular orthopaedic condition are specifically excluded from the footwear inserts brick.[^gpc]
<!--/about-->