SUMMER SALE

50% OFF + FREE SHIPPING

SUMMER SALE | 50% OFF + FREE SHIPPING

00
DAYS
00
HRS
00
MIN
00
SEC

ORTHO-INSIDER
Scroll Progress Bar

I Tried 7 Different “Comfort” Sandals. Only One Actually Worked.

Let me save you the money I wasted on six pairs that only got me halfway there.

I nursed for thirty-two years, so I have been on my feet my whole working life, and I have spent years and a fair bit of money chasing sandals that promised comfort. Birkenstocks that are still in the cupboard. A pair of Vionics. Clarks. Skechers, because a woman at church swore by them. A pair that ran me $150 at a proper shoe shop. Two more I will not bother naming. Dr. Scholl’s inserts I moved from pair to pair. And $400 on custom orthotics on top.

Not one of them got me all the way there. A couple did help my feet, and I would not be seen out in them. Beige, chunky, the sort of thing you keep for the garden. My husband would be ready to go and I would be standing there in something out of a hospital supply catalogue. The ones I did like wearing felt lovely in the shop and were flat inside two months.

Then I found a pair that got both parts right. Wore them from the garden straight to lunch and never gave it a thought. First day I had them on I got to the evening and realised I had not thought about my feet once.

Note: Read this BEFORE you buy your next pair.

Carol M.

Retired Nurse & Orthopedic Sandal Enthusiast

1. Finally, a Comfort Sandal That Doesn’t Look Like One

1. Finally, a Comfort Sandal That Doesn’t Look Like One

I had two kinds of sandals in the cupboard. The ones that were kind to my feet were beige, chunky and obviously orthopaedic. The ones I actually liked wearing hurt by lunchtime.

So for years I picked the good-looking ones and paid for it that night. Every woman I know has had to pick one or the other.

These were the first pair I did not have to choose. Black, blue, pink, beige or white. They just look like normal sandals.

2. Two Months In, They’d Stop Working and I Didn’t Know Why

2. Two Months In, They’d Stop Working and I Didn’t Know Why

For a while I thought my feet were just getting worse. A few pairs in, I worked out it was the sandals.

Soft is not the same as supported. The cushion feels lovely in the shop, then a summer of wear crushes it flat and it stays that way. The sandal still looks fine. There is just nothing left inside it.

Press your thumb into the footbed of the pair you own now. If the dent stays there, that is your answer.

These have a shaped footbed that holds up under my weight. Two summers on and it still comes back. I have paid three times this for sandals that gave out in half the time.

3. I’d Been Buying the Wrong Size for Twenty Years

3. I’d Been Buying the Wrong Size for Twenty Years

This is the one that got me. Feet spread as you get older, and they get wider before they get longer. Most women my age are in something narrower than their own foot and have never been measured for width in their life.

That was me exactly. My feet got wider, the sandals started pinching, so I bought a longer size to get the room. I had been solving the wrong problem for twenty years.

These come in Standard and Wide. I was not bad at buying sandals. I was buying the wrong shape.

4. Nothing Presses on the Sides of My Feet Anymore

4. Nothing Presses on the Sides of My Feet Anymore

I have a bunion on my right foot. If you have one, you know a strap sitting straight across it is out of the question. Some days even a seam is too much.

My little toe was getting crushed on the other side, and I have calluses under the ball of my foot where all the pressure was going.

These are open at the toe and wide across the front, and the strap sits where the bump is not. First sandals in years I can wear on a bad day.

5. I Feel Steadier on Wet Tile Now

5. I Feel Steadier on Wet Tile Now

My foot slid on wet tile at the shopping centre last winter and I caught myself on the trolley. Nothing came of it. But I nursed long enough to know how these things go for a woman my age, and it is not the fall that takes your independence, it is what comes after.

Nobody is telling you a sandal fixes that, and I would not believe them if they did. But more than one in four adults over 65 falls each year, and women fall more often than men. That is the CDC, not the sandal company.

My old pair was worn down on one side, and a sole like that rolls when you put your weight on it. These sit flat with real tread under them. I do not think about it anymore.

6. My Knees and My Back Felt Better Too

6. My Knees and My Back Felt Better Too

I had been blaming my knees for two years. It never crossed my mind the problem started three feet lower.

But whatever your sandals do not absorb, your joints absorb instead. I was walking on a dead flat footbed across tile and pavement all summer, and every step went straight up through me.

Once my feet had something under them doing the work, I was not as wrung out by the evening.

SUMMER Sale
Title

SPECIAL OFFER , FREE SHIPPING
Title

50% OFF FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!

I had already wasted a thousand dollars, so I was in no hurry to spend more. But they pay the shipping and you get thirty days to send them back. Worst case I am out nothing but the trip to the post office.

TRY THEM RISK-FREE

Sell-Out Risk: High

|

FREE shipping

Try it today with a 30-Day Money Back Guarantee!

7. My Heels Don’t Bother Me by the End of the Day

7. My Heels Don’t Bother Me by the End of the Day

Mine came on about four years ago. Not sharp, more like I had been walking on two bruises. Worse on tile, worse in the evening.

Some mornings it was bad enough that I would stand by the bed a second before I trusted it. And the back of one heel got rubbed raw by a stiff strap, so I was putting a plaster on before church. At sixty-three you would think that part would be behind you.

What I found out is the padding under your heel thins out as you get older, so you end up feeling the floor through what is left. It does not help if there is nothing holding your arch up either.

These have real cushion under the heel and something shaped under the arch. I have not thought about my heels in months.

8. They Still Fit When My Feet Swell Up

8. They Still Fit When My Feet Swell Up

By the afternoon my feet swell, and a sandal that fitted at breakfast is cutting into me by three o’clock. The straps used to leave marks.

Then I found out the blood pressure tablets I take are a known cause of it. So it was not going away on its own.

This is the part that sold me. The buckle adjusts. I let it out a hole and carry on, and because there is a strap behind the heel it does not go flopping about when I do. I am not desperate to get them off the moment I sit down.

9. I Stopped Changing Shoes Before We Go Out

9. I Stopped Changing Shoes Before We Go Out

This is the part I did not expect. I used to come home and change before we went anywhere. Comfortable ones for the day, decent ones for dinner, and my feet paid for the second pair every time.

There is a little wedge on these, so they are not flat and they are not a heel either. I wear them with a sundress, with linen trousers, with capris.

I have not changed shoes before going out all summer.

10. Nine Hours on Hard Floors and I Didn’t Sit Down Once

10. Nine Hours on Hard Floors and I Didn’t Sit Down Once

Garden in the morning. Then the shops, then my daughter’s, then standing in her kitchen while the grandchildren ran about.

My feet used to start going around hour four. After that I was looking for a reason to sit down, and the tiles at the shopping centre were the worst of it.

Most comfort sandals are made for a woman who spends her day sitting down. I am on my feet all day and doing the same again tomorrow.

I had not slowed down. My sandals had.

11. The Best Money I’ve Spent on My Feet

11. The Best Money I’ve Spent on My Feet

Let me add up what comfort cost me. Custom orthotics, $400, still went flat. Birkenstocks, $135, never stopped rubbing the bunion. Vionics, $130, still went flat. Then Clarks, Skechers, a $150 pair from a proper shoe shop, and $50 of Dr. Scholl’s inserts I moved from pair to pair.

Well over a thousand dollars, and not one pair I got both things out of.

These cost a fraction of that. More than 18,000 women have switched over, and I only wish I had found them five summers ago.

12. I Checked Them Against What Podiatrists Actually Recommend

12. I Checked Them Against What Podiatrists Actually Recommend

I was not taking the company’s word for it. I nursed for thirty-two years and I have been sold to before.

So I looked up what foot doctors tell women to look for in a sandal after 60. Room across the toes. Structured arch support instead of soft foam, because foam packs down and stops holding anything up. A stable sole with real tread. And a fastening you can adjust, because feet swell.

That is the whole list. These tick all four, and I took a pair to my own appointment anyway.

SUMMER SALE
Title

SPECIAL OFFER , FREE SHIPPING
Title

50% OFF FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!

I had already wasted a thousand dollars, so I was in no hurry to spend more. But they pay the shipping and you get thirty days to send them back. Worst case I am out nothing but the trip to the post office.

TRY THEM RISK-FREE

Sell-Out Risk: High

|

FREE shipping

Try it today with a 30-Day Money Back Guarantee!

YES, I WILL TRY A PAIR

Carol M.

& 18,000 WOMEN WHO SWITCHED