Method of manufacturing shoe and shoe

A method of manufacturing a shoe, the method comprising:

• preparing a flexible shell having an internal space;
• preparing an upper body in a form of a bag, the upper body being provided with an opening in a portion corresponding to a topline;
• preparing a sole body;
• accommodating the upper body in the shell;
• partially fixing the shell and the upper body in a portion of the upper body adjacent to the opening and in a portion of the shell adjacent to the topline through which a foot of a wearer is inserted;
• forming the upper body with a last located in the upper body;
• taking the last out of the formed upper body;
• and
• accommodating the sole body in the shell;
• wherein the partially fixing the shell and the upper body is performed after the forming the upper body;
• wherein in the preparing of the shell, the shell is made to consist of a single bag-shaped member including a bottom wall portion and a peripheral wall portion extending upward from a peripheral edge of the bottom wall portion to the topline, the bottom wall portion of the shell defining an outermost surface of the shoe located on a lower side of the shoe in the vertical direction;
• and
• wherein an outer surface of the bottom wall portion of the shell is a tread of the shoe.