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Dress shoes tend to be identifiable by their smooth and supple leather finish, leather soles and sleek lines, while casual shoes tend to have sturdy uppers and a wider profile. Some types of dress shoe can be worn by either gender and they mostly cover the lower foot, but not the ankle.
This upper element of the shoe is often without apertures or openings, but may also be made with openings or even itself consist of a series of straps, e.g. an open toe featured in women's shoes.



Shoes with uppers made high to cover the ankles are also made; a shoe with the upper rising above the ankle is usually considered a boot but certain styles may be referred to as high-topped shoes or high-tops. Normally, a high-topped shoe is fixed by laces or zips, although some styles have elastic to ease slipping the shoe on.
There is a large variety of shoes available for women, in addition to most of the men's styles being more accepted as unisex. Some broad categories are:
High-heeled footwear may be shoes with heels 2 inches (5 cm) or higher. They are often seen as having more sex appeal than low heels and are as a result commonly worn by women for formal occasions or social outings.
Kitten heels are low high heels from about 1 to 2 inches high, and are set in from the back of the shoe.
Sneaker boot and sneaker pumps are shoes that look like an athletic shoe, but is equipped with a heel, making it a kind of novelty dress shoe.
Wedge Sandals are sandals but have the ankles higher as if wearing a high heels shoe, a kind of hybrid. Mules are shoes or slippers with no fitting around the heel (i.e. they are backless) also known as slip-ons. Sling backs are shoes which are fixed by a strap behind the heel, rather than over the top of the foot. Espadrilles are flat or high-heeled casual fashion sandals in a style which originally came from the Pyrenees. They usually have a cotton or canvas upper and a flexible sole of rope or rubber.
Clogs are a Platform shoe with very thick soles and heels. Moccasins originated by Native Americans, are a soft shoe without a heel and usually made of leather.
Sandals are open shoes of a sole and various straps, leaving much of the foot exposed to air. They are as a result popular for warm-weather wear, because they allow the foot be cooler than an enclosed shoe would. Slip-on shoes are dress or casual shoes without laces; often with tassels, buckles, or coin-holders (penny loafers). Boat shoes, or "deck shoes" are similar to a loafer, but more casual. Laces are usually simple leather or cotton with no frills. Typically made of leather and featuring a soft white sole to avoid marring or scratching a boat deck. The first boat shoe was invented in 1935 by Paul Sperry.
Boots: Long shoes (covering the ankle) frequently made of leather. Some are designed to be used in times of bad weather, or simply as an alternate style of casual or dress wear. Styles include rubber boots and snow boots, as well as work boots and hiking boots.
And finally who could forget the ever faithful slipper? Worn primarily at home, they can often be seen curled up in front of the TV with a pyjama wearing person.