Is It Okay To Go A Half Size Smaller?

Hey Ladies, We are going to get right down to it today! Ladies now about this illusion we have about the stretch of our shoes. You know when they are out of your size and you think the size below will stretch out enough. They look leather so they should give if I stretch it long enough.

Lies! All lies you have been told. If your shoes were to be full leather and not just leather upper- meaning the shell of the shoe, if your feet were to swell they would lift but not extend lengthwise.  If they were fully leather shoes they would only stretch a millimeter or so, and for some that may be enough but it will not stretch a half a size up. I have been in the same place trust me. I bought a pair of WONDERFUL pumps, just half a size down (because no one sell half sizes – especially a 9 ½ - besides Superb Couture Footwear).

 I was told if you walk in them they would stretch-

FAIL.

If you wear layered socks on and walk in them for hours-

FAIL.

If you put a shoe stretcher in them they will stretch-

Complicated.

My results were stretched shoes but you have to continuously put the stretcher in there and then if you do remember to put them in every night you risk breaking the binding of the shoe. Once the seam is broken of the binding is cracked there is no longer a point in the shoe.

Now by some wonderful way of magic your shoes did stretch with one of these tricks. The quality of the shoe would weaken because you are literally stretching it out. Just like a skirt too small you wear it often or stretch it out too much it will rip. What you would have left over would be just a reminder of what it use to be. Also they won’t be good for your feet, too tight shoes are the stepping stages of corns, bunions, and hammertoes.

Really think about it before you by that shoe you think you just have to have. Is it worth it to have pretty feet or pretty shoes?

            And to be honest sometimes it really is the shoes that win but if they do. Be warned and cautious.

Let us know if the pretty shoes won, did you regret it the next day? You have any stretching tips or warnings let us know too. We want you guys to tell us what we don’t know or what we might have forgot.