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Let me save you the money I wasted on six pairs that only got me halfway there.
I’ve been on my feet my whole working life, and I’ve spent years and a fair bit of money chasing shoes that promised comfort. A pair of Hush Puppies I wear in the backyard. New Balance in a wide fit. Rockports. A pair of ASICS. Brooks, because a bloke at the running shop swore by them. A pair of Hokas that set me back $260. Scholl insoles stuffed in all of them. And $550 on custom orthotics on top.
Not one of them got me all the way there. A couple did help my feet, and I wouldn’t be seen in them. Beige, square-toed, velcro straps. My wife would be dressed for dinner and I’d be standing there in something out of a hospital supply catalogue. The ones I did like wearing felt fine in the shop and were flat inside two months.
Then I found a pair that got both parts right. Wore them from the backyard straight to the restaurant and never gave it a thought. First day I had them on I got to the evening and realised I hadn’t thought about my feet once.
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Dale W.
VerifiedRetired Electrician &
Orthopaedic Shoe Enthusiast
I had two kinds of shoes in my wardrobe. The ones that were kind to my feet were beige, square-toed and covered in velcro. 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 man I know has had to pick one or the other.
These were the first pair I didn’t have to choose. They just look like normal sneakers.
For a while I figured my feet were just getting worse. A few pairs in, I worked out it was the shoes. Soft isn't the same as supported.
The cushion feels great in the shop, then a few hundred kilometres crush it flat and it stays that way. The shoe still looks fine. There's just nothing left inside it.
Then the rest goes. I've had a pair where the soles came off in clumps, and another where the heel pad tore out inside three months.
These have a shaped footbed that holds up under my weight. Six months on it still comes back. I've paid twice this for shoes that gave out in half the time.
This is the one that got me. They measured 172 men aged 60 to 90, and 69% were wearing shoes longer than their feet. Only one man in the whole study was in something too short.
That was me exactly. My feet got wider, the shoes started pinching, so I bought longer ones to get the room. I’d been solving the wrong problem for twenty years.
I wasn’t bad at buying shoes. I was buying the wrong shape.
I get gout. If you do, you know a stiff narrow shoe during a flare is out of the question. Some days even a sock is too much.
My little toe was getting crushed on the other side, and I’ve got calluses under the ball of my foot where all the pressure was going.
These are wide and rounded on both sides, so nothing sits down on the joint. First shoes in years I can wear through a flare.
My foot slid on wet tiles at the supermarket last winter and I caught myself on the trolley. Nothing came of it. But I know a man it went badly for, and it took his independence.
Nobody is telling you a shoe fixes that, and I wouldn't believe them if they did. But women fall more often and men die from it more often. That's the public health research, not the shoe company.
My old ones were 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 don't think about it anymore.
I’d been blaming my knees for two years. It never crossed my mind the problem started three feet lower.
But whatever your shoes don’t absorb, your joints absorb instead. I was walking on a dead flat insole on concrete all day and every step went straight up through me.
Once my feet had something under them doing the work, I wasn’t as wrung out by evening.
I'd already wasted well over a grand, so I wasn't in a hurry to spend more. But they pay the shipping and you get thirty days to send them back. Worst case I'm out nothing but the trip to the post office.
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Mine came on about four years ago. Not sharp, more like I'd been walking on two bruises. Worse on tile and concrete, and worse in the evening.
Some mornings it was bad enough that I'd stand by the bed a second before I trusted it. The back of one heel got rubbed raw from a stiff shoe and I was putting a Band-Aid on it before church. That's not something a grown man should be doing.
What I found out is the padding under your heel wears down as you get older, so you end up feeling the floor through what's left. Doesn't help if there's nothing holding your arch up either.
These have real cushion under the heel and something shaped under the arch. I haven't thought about my heels in months.
By the afternoon my feet swell, and a shoe that fit at breakfast is a clamp by three o’clock. My socks used to leave marks.
Then I found out the blood pressure tablets I take are a known cause of it. So it wasn’t going away on its own.
There’s enough room across the front and the mesh gives. I’m not desperate to get them off the second I sit down.
This is the part I didn't expect. I used to come home and change before we went anywhere. Walking shoes for the walk, proper shoes for the restaurant, and my feet paid for the second pair every time.
Now I wear the same ones all day. Jeans, chinos, trousers. Out to dinner with my wife straight from the backyard.
I haven't changed shoes before going out in months.
Out in the shed first thing. Mow the lawn, walk the dog, then the supermarket and Bunnings in the same run.
My feet used to start going around hour four. After that I was looking for a reason to sit down, and the concrete at Bunnings was the worst of it.
Most comfort shoes are made for a man who spends his day sitting. I'm on my feet all day and doing the same thing tomorrow.
I hadn't slowed down. My shoes had.
Let me add up what comfort cost me. Custom orthotics, $550, still went flat. Hokas, $260, still went flat. Brooks, $230, still went flat. Then Hush Puppies, Rockports, New Balance, ASICS, and $60 of Scholl insoles stuffed in all of them.
Well over fifteen hundred bucks, and not one pair I got both things out of.
These cost a fraction of that. More than 700,000 men in Australia have switched over, and I only wish I'd found them five years ago.
I wasn’t taking the company’s word for it. I’ve been sold to before.
So I looked up what podiatrists tell men to look for in a walking shoe after 60. Same three things every time. Room in the toe box. Structured arch support instead of soft foam, because foam packs down and stops holding anything up. A stable sole with real tread.
That’s the whole list. These tick all three, and I took a pair to my own appointment anyway.
I'd already wasted well over a grand, so I wasn't in a hurry to spend more. But they pay the shipping and you get thirty days to send them back. Worst case I'm out nothing but the trip to the post office.
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