Have you ever bought a new pair of shoes only to have them kill your feet?Don't take them away.They can be fixed by breaking them in.You're not breaking them, but you are getting used to them.mold the new shoe to fit your feet with these tips
Step 1: You should be wearing your new shoes around the house.
Before you go out in them, try walking up stairs, standing around and playing with kids.Even running.You can easily and lightly break in your new shoes with this method.This method is the safest to try if you have nice leather or dress shoes that you wouldn't mind seeing altered or discolored.
Step 2: At first, wear your shoes lightly.
You don't walk away with sore feet when you try out new shoes before you buy them.You haven't donned your shoes for long enough to cause any pain, so you have to alter the frame of the shoe to fit your foot.Wear early, wear often, and don't feel like you need to put your shoes on for hours at a time to notice a difference when you break shoes in at home.Wear your shoes 10 minutes at a time in the beginning.Try it for a few days.Wear your shoes for 10 minutes more, every couple of days, until you wear them for an hour at a time.The shoes should be taken care of by this time.
Step 3: It's a good idea to bring your shoes to work.
When you're sitting at your desk, bust out your new shoes and get in the habit of having them on your feet.It's a simple way to break in your new shoes.
Step 4: Wear them with socks.
It's possible to tell if you need socks when you wear them.This can help with getting used to new shoes.You should wear socks that are a little bigger than you normally wear.If you want to squeeze into the shoes, try thick cotton socks.You'll give yourself blisters if you do any heavy walking.Put your feet in the shoe.The frame will be stretched out by the size of the sock.
Step 5: Put the sandwich bags full of water in them.
Make sure the bags are large enough to put pressure on the shoe when they expand in the freezer.Remove air from the inside of the bag when you seal it up.It will be easier to mold the water inside the bag to the shoe's shape.If you put your shoes in the freezer for an extended period of time, they will get wet.The shoes you use with this method should not be susceptible to water damage.
Step 6: Put one of the baggies in each shoe.
The seal needs to be tightly locked.If you remove your shoes from the freezer, you don't want them covered in ice.
Step 7: Put the shoes in a bag and put it in the freezer.
Your shoes should have a smaller plastic bag inside and a larger one outside to protect it from the elements.
Step 8: Wait at least 3 to 4 hours.
When the water in the shoe is frozen, it expands, putting pressure on the insides of the shoes and breaking them in.The advantage of using water instead of a shoe stretcher is that the water will fit perfectly in your shoe.
Step 9: Take the shoes out of the freezer.
Solid ice should be formed from the water filled baggies.
Step 10: Take the baggies out of your shoes.
You might have to wait a few minutes in order to slide them out.
Step 11: Try on shoes.
If the shoes are athletic, try running and jogging in them once they warm up.
Step 12: For 10 minutes, wear the shoes.
Walk around for no more than 10 minutes if you get the shoes on your feet.This is for them to be prepared.
Step 13: Take the shoes off and stretch them.
If the shoe allows, bend it upwards and downwards.
Step 14: Use heat to blast the shoe.
If the shoe is leather, heating it will make it more supple.Use a hair dryer, turn on a hot setting, and heat the shoe up for 2 to 3 minutes.If you don't have a hair dryer, you can put your shoes next to an indoor heating source or in the sun.No heat is worse than some heat.
Step 15: The shoes should be worn immediately after heating.
Wear them for another 10 minutes.
Step 16: At least one more time.
After a couple heat treatments, your shoes will be more comfortable.
Step 17: You can buy a shoe stretcher.
Your shoes can get a little tighter with the help of these.Taking the shoe by the tip and flexing it back and forth is fine if you don't want to buy a stretcher.If you don't wear your shoes after using the flex method, they'll lose their shape.
Step 18: A potato can be used.
A paper towel can be used to remove some of the moisture from a large potato.Leave the potato inside the shoe overnight.Don't leave in the morning.If the potato is larger than the opening of the shoe, it will warp the toe box.The potato may need to be removed so that it follows the shape of the shoe while still giving the material a little stretch.
Step 19: Purchase spray for stretching.
The packaging has instructions on how to spray the shoes.The instructions recommend that you manually stretch the shoe back and forth between sprays.
Step 20: You can get a shoe made for you.
Americans spend $2 million a year on shoe stretching.A cobbler will spray the shoe with a stretching solution and then stretch it over a machine for a couple hours.This shouldn't cost more than $20
Step 21: Don't use these tricks.
Some shoe-stretching techniques are not good for your shoes.Rub alcohol on your shoes.Alcohol can leave marks on nice leather shoes, as well as rob the leather of its natural oils.Striking the shoes with a hard object.Hammering the backs of shoes could work, but at what cost?Is broken-in shoes worth it?Someone with bigger feet can break your shoes in.It's immoral to have someone break your shoes in.You are also placing the burden of pain on another person.You're letting the shoes conform to his or her feet, not your own.Don't.