How to carry shoes?

Surely many people had this situation: you tried on nice shoes in the store and, after turning around for a few minutes at the mirror, gladly bought them, and wearing a new thing to work with horror realized that the shoes you obviously are not in size. A number of factors can serve as a cause: swollen feet, an irregular shoe, or a small discrepancy in size. In any case, it's too late to return the purchase back, and you too like the shoes. How to carry the narrow shoes to the size you need? About this below.

How to carry thin leather shoes?

The main advantage of natural material is that it eventually wears out and takes the form of a foot. If you want to put on new leather shoes as soon as possible, you can resort to such folk methods:

  1. Frost. Take a tight polyethylene bag, place it inside the shoe and fill it with water. Pack the package tightly and place the shoes in the freezer. After 5-6 hours, remove the ice pack and try on the shoes. Due to the expansion of water, they should stretch out a little.
  2. Alcohol in the help! Use any alcohol (cologne, vodka, tincture). Wipe the shoes from inside with cotton wool soaked in alcohol, put on a sock, and on top of the shoe. Go to them around the house 15-20 minutes 3 times a day. Do not forget about the precautionary measures, namely, make sure that alcohol does not get on the outside of the product, otherwise it may change color slightly. In addition, after using alcohol, the shoes can stain the leg. The talc powder will help with this.
  3. Butter. Shoes of smooth leather, which you have not worn for a long time, can be softened with vegetable or castor oil. Petroleum jelly is also suitable for this. 2-3 hours after the application of the product, the product must be cleaned and a test fitting must be performed.
  4. Stretching newspaper. Dampen newspapers with water and tightly stuff them into shoes. Try to push as much paper as possible, because the effectiveness of the stretching depends on this. After this, let the shoe dry naturally (it will take about a day). Take out the dried paper and enjoy the result.

If you are not a supporter of folk methods, then you will like a special foam for stretching your shoes. It costs 180 rubles. Spray foam into the product, immediately put it on and do not remove until completely dry. Repeat the manipulation several times.

How to carry leather lacquer shoes ?

Your beautiful patent leather shoes are a little small and tight, and you do not know how to carry them? Professionals are advised not to experiment with folk remedies, but immediately go to shoe shops. There, with the help of special pads, you stretch a specific part in the shoes, without damaging the thin glossy coating.

If you are looking for ways how to spread lacquered shoes yourself, you can refer to a girlfriend with a large foot size. Let him try to put on a problem pair on his foot and walk a few dozen steps in it. Cruel, of course, but very effective.

Other materials

In addition to leather shoes in the women's wardrobe, many other models of shoes: textile sneakers, nubuck shoes, sandals from leatherette. How to "fit" such products to your size? Unfortunately, analog materials do not lend itself to artificial stretching, so you have to include imagination and combine several of the above methods.

Those who are interested in how quickly to spread shoes from textiles and leatherette it is better to try to smear the interior with abundant alcohol and fill it with wet newspapers. For leather shoes, this method should not be used in any case, since the combination of alcohol and wet paper can completely deform the shoe, but for dermatological products it will be optimal!