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- Have your feet measured while you’re standing.
- Always try on both shoes, and walk around the store.
- Always buy for the larger foot;feet are seldom precisely the same size.
- Don’t rely on the size of your last pair of shoes. Your feet do get larger, and lasts.
- Shop for shoes later in the day;feet tend to swell during the day,and it’s best to befitted while they are in that state.
- Be sure that shoes fit well in the front, back and sides to distribute weight.
- It sounds elementary, but be sure the widest part of your foot corresponds to the widest part of your shoes.
- Select a shoe with a leather upper, stiff heal counter, and flexibility at the ball of the foot.
- Buy shoes that don’t pinch your toes, either at the tip or across the toe box.
- Try on shoes while you are wearing the same type of socks or stockings you expect to wear with the shoes.
- If you wear prescription orthotics- biomechanical inserts by a podiatrist- you should take them along to shoe fittings.
