How to Tell a Cheap Shoe
How to tell a cheap shoe is not always easy. There are a lot of posers in the industry that try to pass off a shoe as a good quality product but is really just a cheap shoe and nothing more. The question is how to tell this? It can be tough, especially when you have salesmen in your ear whispering sweet nothings to convince you to buy or in the case of modern-day online shopping, super high-quality imagery that elevates the quality of the shoes solely in pixels but not in reality. So let’s look at a few details that can usually give us an indication that a shoe is not as good as it is trying to claim to be.
Sole + Heel Block all as one piece = cheap shoe
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| The shape is all off |
The Smell Of The Leather
Good quality shoes use high-quality materials to finish/treat their shoes.
A strong chemical smell is a very good indication of a cheap shoe. The smell of actual leather is what you should be smelling in a good quality shoe. No industrial-like odours.
The Cap Area
This is usually the first place to look. Cheap shoes always have disproportionate caps. It is nearly always an oversized straight cap. Very few times it is a smaller cap.
The Heel Area
The heel size should be proportionate to the last. There is a balance that needs to be tested. Most cheap shoes have heels that are too small and will not give you the proper support structure you need as they will be more flat than anything. see the shoes below
Oversized Brogueing/Stitching
Ever see those shoes that just look like all brogueing and the brogueing is huge i.e. nearly doubles the size of the common brogue size. Chances are that is a cheap shoe. In the dress shoe world, there are standard sizes you use for your common brogueing. However, when you do super large brogueing and the rest of the pattern is off everywhere else too, well that’s just a cheap shoe.
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| Oversized stitching |
CONCLUSION
The reality is that there are a lot of cheap shoes in the marketplace trying to pass off as quality. Good shoes doesn't need slogans to sell them. You see the quality instantly.
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