The truth about shoes

I love shoes. I love it high heeled, flat out, pointed, shimmery, matt - I just love shoes. But the truth about shoes after many painful years of affair with it? It hurts to wear them most of the time.

Call me stupid, but after many years of experimenting, I have decided that whatever the price is, only leather shoes are fit to wear.

I have an odd feet measurement. My rightie is a 6.75 and my leftie is a 6.25. So they met with a consensus that they would both fit into a 6.5. Unfortunately, most shops do not carry a 6.5, and thus, I’m left with a torn-up decision. Buy one of the other size, either foot would complain.

Until, I started experimenting with squishing stuffings into the shoes.

Like all “eureka” moments, this discovery came quite by accident. Two years ago, I purchased a pair of 4 inch leather peep-toes from Nine-West. But, my feet weren’t exactly pleased with it. So, I just left the heels in its box, with its stuffings intact for exactly a year.

Perhaps the black heels got bored of sitting around in the box, or it grew fat over the year by drinking the stale oxygen, or simply the stuffings helped expand the front of the heels; making it a comfortable fit for my odd feet.

To make sure that this is not a one-off instance, I went on to experiment stuffing acid-free paper into all my ill-fitted shoes.

Guess what? It worked!

Perhaps some of the shoes require a little more coaxing, and hence, more incubating time, but it beats better than to cringe in pain whilst trying to season the shoes with my own feet.

Another discovery I made, it only works well on leather products. Apparently leather is stretchable over time. Plus, even the worse grade of leather shoes allow your feet to breathe a little, unlike pvc.

Give a woman a good pair of heels and she will walk a long way.

Give a woman a good pair of leather heels, that fits like a dream (do the stuffings! I promise you, you won’t regret it), and she will walk a longer way.