Sunday, December 14, 2008

Ladies Shoes - Getting Your Money's Worth

By Sherman Tankerston

Looking for various sharp and sleek shoe store designer discount footwear styles to fit your individual taste? Or are you looking for special brand or styles at the discount stores? You may need to comb search the online stores. Look for a sale to really hit the bottom line deal.

Local footwear store styles may lack a breadth of sizes and all the various style choice for a particular brand. Even the larger mall stores may suffer from spotty inventory selection. This is where shoes online stores excel. Huge inventories and complete brand selection is the rule.

When buying your new pair of shoes, look to see if the company has free shipping and especially free return shipping. Just in case the footwear doesn't fit, you don't want your low cost purchase gobbled up in extra shipping charges.

Look for what is popular and what is not in shoe or boot trends before you buy. In other words, when looking at boot trends, whether they are ankle-high, over-the-knee, boots with fringes, slouch boots, or flat boots, you'll want a trendy style that will last for years.

In women's shoe styles, purple seems to be a well-liked ruling color. Metallic high heels, gold pumps and flats are catching a popular pulse. Exotic animal prints and peep-toe cut outs are securing the fashion nod as well.

As far as comfort is concerned, kitten heels are low and easy to walk in. They are not completely flat and really comfortable without pinching. They are great to wear with both jeans and a skirt. They come in a rainbow of different colors definitely worth snapping up a few pairs.

Style experts are urging women to balance shoe styles with a mix of high heels, flats and more comfortable well fitting ones. Ill fitting footwear have been the source of foot and bodily injury. Twisted ankles, tripping and falling are the most common injury, especially with high heel varieties. Besides, bad shoe habits result to bunions and toe straightening and other cosmetic procedures.

To be safe, heels should not be more than 1 or 2 inches high. To be stylish you need to mix and match footwear to balance your looks. Not only is it sound advice, it's healthier for you and your foot. - 16650

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