Shoe boxes made of paper materials such as cardboard appeared around the middle of the 20th 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 are only found in the corresponding accessories for very high-quality and high-priced shoes and bespoke shoes .