SELECTION OF SHOES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1939, Page 10

SELECTION OF SHOES

USE COMMON SENSE IS GOOD RULE. Use common sense in the selection of shoes. If you have been wearing high-heeled shoes and a change to low heels is necessary, make the change gradually, says Dr Wmf M. Scholl in a recent article. Do not wear shoes that are too tight. They shut off the circulation and cramp the muscles. But, Dr Scholl enjoins, do not blame all foot troubles on the shoes worn. Discomfort may easily be due to physical weakness; to neglect of the feet, or to a weakened and broken-down arch. Quick relief and permanent correction is even theri possible with properly fitted arch supports Nd shoes cari long withstand the unnatural strains that structural weaknesses of the foot put upon them. A brokendown shank in a shoe is very often the result of weak or flat foot; run over and crooked heels are caused by weak ankles. In the quick correction of foot troubles arch supports are an economy. They make it easy to get shoes to fit and prevent the discarding of shoes sometiines almost new. Stockings that are too short are often as instrumental in causing deformity of the feet as ill-fitting shoes. They interfere with the natural motives of the feet and cause such disturbances as bunions, hammer toes, ingrowing toe nails and flat foot.