Formal Shoes - Painful Truth
If you've ever worn formal shoes, I'm sure you've cursed them.
They're some of the most uncomfortable shoes ever made.
Usually super stiff, high heel, and extremely narrow in the front pinching your feet.
"I only have to wear it for a couple of hours, only at the office", you give yourself these excuses and end up with sore and deformed feet.
The design of formal shoes comes straight from European royalty.
They wore super pointed and long shoes to prove that they could choose to wear impractical shoes because they don't have to work.
The entire idea of the design was to make them unusable.
Somehow we haven't been able to break out of that notion. Rather we've made it fashion that is slowly killing our feet and our entire posture.
If you are wearing these shoes at the office every day for over 8 hours, know that they are really damaging your natural foot splay, your arch muscle and your heel.
If not today, you will feel it as you get older.
To fix this, we need better shoes. Foot shaped, flat, flexible and yet good looking that you can wear in formal settings without getting heads turned.
There are a few barefoot brands out there that do them in formals however they're either too expensive imported shoes, or don't look good.
Zen Barefoot has its own range of formal barefoot shoes incoming.
It is time to finally feel and move your toes in shoes that are designed for you.