1. Never Trust How Comfortable Shoes are by trying them on a store!
This sounds counter-intuitive but if you have bought a pair of expensive shoes before, there’s a good chance you bought them in a really nicely decorated store with carpeting. The reason most shoe stores use carpets is because they are trying to mask how comfortable the shoes that you are trying on actually are. Carpets are like shock-absorbers in cars. Nearly all uncomfy shoes will feel great when you walk on carpet. But that’s not real life! I recommend testing the shoes you are about to buy on cement or hard wood or even cobblestone (if you live in New York, you will know what I mean about cobblestone.) Specifically test to see how much give the shoe has and how the padding in the toe and heel supports your foot. Many shoe brands save money by not using enough padding underneath the shoe’s leather and enough shock-absorption on the heel.
2. Pitch over Heel Height
Most women who wear heeled shoes are obsessed with how many inches the heel is going to give them. Petite women are especially concerned with wearing five or sometimes six inch heels. However, some shoes with really high heels do not use a platform toe and as a consequence can be extremely uncomfortable to wear. This is not your fault! This is the shoe designer’s fault. He or she has constructed a shoe that goes against the laws of gravity. Who wants a pair of really expensive designer shoes they never wear? Nobody! In fact, this is one of the main reasons designer Christian Louboutin has become so successful As we all know, Louboutin utilizes a very high stiletto heel on most of his shoe designs, but he’s very smart using a platform above the toe to minimize the pitch of the shoe and therefore he is able to make shoes that are very wearable as well as very sexy. My advice to shoe buyers is this: Do not pay attention to how many inches in the heel, instead look at the pitch angle of the shoe where the foot rests and the amount of inches in the platform height. These other inches are just as important, if not more, for buying a sexy pair of high heeled shoes!
3. Leather Socks
The shoe sock or footbed is the part of the shoe on which your foot rests when you wear the shoe. This part of the shoe or boot is often overlooked and in some cases not able to be seen. Many shoe companies save a few bucks by using a non-leather sock (polyurethane) instead of using a leather sock. Leather is better cause it breathes and it will make sure that your beautiful new shoes don’t smell terrible. Sexy shoes are not stinky shoes! Look for the leather symbol or ask if the shoe’s footbed is made of leather. At Fortress of Inca we always use leather socks for our shoes and boots. Quality is important to us and we value creating good products over saving money. We hope that our customers appreciate the value of high quality shoes with premium materials as much as we do.
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Sneakers are a type of footwear with a flexible sole made of rubber or synthetic material and an upper part made of leather or canvas. Sneakers were originally sporting apparel, but today worn much more widely as casual footwear. They can also refer to athletic footwear like basketball shoes, tennis shoes, cross trainers and other shoes worn for specific sports. The British English equivalent of "sneaker" in its modern meaning is "trainer", while the traditional "sneaker" (pictured) is closer to the British "plimsoll". In some urban areas in the United States, the slang for sneakers is kicks. In Hiberno-English, Canadian English and Australian English the term is runners or sneakers. In South African English the term used is tackies. The name "sneakers" originally referred to how quiet the rubber soles were on the ground, in contrast to noisy standard hard leather soled dress shoes. Someone wearing sneakers could "sneak up" on you.
