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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
The feet are the foundation of the body. If you don't spend a little extra time 'building' the foundation, nothing will be right with the rest of the construction.
There is a reason why the old beat cops wore heavy duty brogans. They were on their feet all day long. We can't do that in Teva's and still expect the same support from out feet. Arch support isn't only from the bottom. The top of the arch needs to surrounded 'from the top' and held in place. Although I live my Tevas and have walked all day in them, I can certainly feel the difference at the end of the day between wearing them and a good pair of lightweight hiking boots!
The single happiest 'foot moment' came when I stumbled into an orthopedic shoe store and had a couple of pair of 'working shoes' put together for me. I have a pretty wide foot but obviously an orthopedic shoe store carries good looking shoes wide enough to use as pool floats! They even carried orthopedic sandals. Good looking, leather sandals with an orthopedic footbed contoured to molds taken of my feet. I wouldn't use them for river running or jungle trekking as I would my Tevas, but they sure are comfortable for city walking!
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I agree. When I was looking for a pair of shoes to bartend in, another customer, a chef, told me to get
Danskos. I informed her that $120 was a bit high since I hadn't started my first day of work yet. She insisted that they were worth it and I'd appreciate it after a long day on my feet. Boy was she right! I regularly worked 12 hr shifts an my body would be dog tired, right down to my ankles, but just past my ankles, my feet, were fine. It was the difference between a friendly and fun bartender and a grumpy one. No one likes a grumpy bartender.
Chacos I wear for kicking around, but the lack of elevation in the heel make them less than ideal for standing on your feet all day. My feet wouldn't hurt, per se, but I would feel more fatigued when I bartended in Chacos.