March 12th 2015 - Stretching shoes

March 12th 2015 - Stretching shoes

Last week I bought a pair of shoes off ebay because I need a low heeled pair to go with my St John Ambulance uniform for our enrollment/presentation evening in a few weeks and couldn't find any in town that I liked or were comfy.

These shoes were listed as a size 7, which is good as that is what I am in most shoes.  However when they arrived they have a great big 6 on the sole, which isn't so good.  I did contemplate complaining to the seller  but for the sake of £3.79 (including postage) I didn't think it was worth it and would could me more than that to send them back.  I have tried them on and they are a bit on the tight side across the top of my foot and against my big toes.

Then I remembered that I had pinned this random pin about stretching shoes by wearing loads of socks and using a hair dryer - I can do that as have socks and a hair dryer.  So I started off with 1 pair of socks on and a couple of mins under the hair dryer, removed them and tried shoes on without socks, they were still a bit tight.  So we went for a 2nd pair of socks.  Although this did feel that they were stretching slightly after a total of mins the sole of one of the shoes had come unstuck.

So I can safely say that stretching shoes with extra socks and a hair dyrer doesn't work.  This is a pinterest fail.  And I now have a pair of shoes that are still tight and have had to glue the sole back onto them and need find another pair asap.