Podiatrist - Portland
15 Sewall St
Portland, Maine 04102
207-774-0028
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- Select shoes that match the shape of your foot. If your foot shape matches your shoe shape, you are on the right track to good shoe fit.
- When shoes contact the ground your feet elongate. Allow adequate space (3/4" to 1/2") at the end of the shoe for your longest toe.
- Shop at stores that offer full service, including a good size and width selection and staff trained in proper shoe fitting and measuring.
- Shop for shoes later in the day; feet tend to swell during the day, and it's best to be fitted while they are in that state.
- Always try on both shoes, and walk around the store.
- Always buy for the larger foot; feet are seldom precisely the same size.
- Don't buy shoes that need a "break-in" period; shoes should be comfortable immediately.
- Try on shoes while you're wearing the same type of socks or stockings you expect to wear with the shoes.
- If you wear prescription orthotics -- biomechanical inserts prescribed by a podiatric physician -- you should take them along to shoe fittings.