Your shoes look great; but, maybe, it's taking you forever to recover from wearing them.
A new UK survey finds:
- It takes three-and-a-half days for feet to feel good again after wearing ill-fitting shoes.
- The average person wears uncomfortable shoes two days a month, which means they’ll spend more than three weeks a year recovering.
- Part of the reason so many shoes are uncomfortable is that people don’t know their actual shoe size.
- In fact, 20% of people say they haven’t measured their feet in ten or more years.
Of course there are plenty of people who wear ill-fitting shoes on purpose.
- One in eight adults admit they knowingly wear shoes that don’t fit, basically because they like the style.
- What’s more, a third of folks have shoes they can’t walk in, and describe them as “sit down shoes” only.
- Style seems to be the main reason people buy ill-fitting shoes
- 40% of people say looking good is their top consideration when buying shoes.
- Another 10% choose shoes that make their legs look nice.
- A fifth of people though say they are forced to wear the wrong size because shoes they want don’t come in half sizes or different widths.