In reflecting over the recent style of pointy-toed shoes, I started wondering how shoe shape is determined. Women have more problems than men, and the higher the heel, the more bizarre the shoe shape. Most high heeled dress shoes for women get wider as you go from the heel to the arch of the foot, then taper at the toes. However, my foot gets wider starting at the arch, and doesn’t taper at all, except that my big toe curves inward, which it has probably been trained to do through years of being squeezed into ill-fitting shoes. The square-toed shoe was popular for a while, but that doesn’t match the shape of my foot either. Running shoes are closest, I suppose, but even their design could be tweaked a bit to be more comfortable. Is the shape of shoes indicative of desirable ideal foot shape, or completely unrelated to foot shape, just as heel height is unrelated to foot slope?
For you & I it’s a question of :Fashion - they designers make their shoes a certain shape, we’re duped into believing that they look awesome, and we buy them.
However, top footballers, the Del Pieros, Beckhams & Nedveds of this world, get their boots made from moulds of their feet - so they fit exactly - and they wear a new pair for every match. I know it woulnds like a waste, but think of all the cash they save on shoe-polish…
So, although it is expensive, it can be done…
“I know it woulnds like a waste” ??? WTF ? That was supposed to be “sounds like a waste”…
Check out shoes made by Dansko. More realistic, comfortable, and I think healthier:
Maybe because not all feet are the same shape-some have long, narrow feet, some have huge, wide feet, some have tiny skinny feet and some have small fat feet?
And toes are differents shapes.