Wide Width Shoes - The Essential Guide
In addition to being exceedingly uncomfortable and painful, wearing shoes that are too small for your feet can also lead to or worsen unpleasant foot disorders including bunions and hammertoes as well as ingrown toenails, Morton's neuroma, corns, calluses, and metatarsalgia.
If you have any of these issues, switching to extra wide width shoes can offer a remarkable amount of comfort and relief.
The majority of shoes are made for the normal foot, which calls for a medium width shoe, thus it's not always simple to find wide width shoes.
People with large or swollen feet, as well as those who have bunions, hammertoes, or other foot disorders, can benefit greatly from wearing wide, extra wide, or even extra wide shoes.
What Are Wide Shoes?
Wide width shoes are simply a wider variant of ordinary sized footwear with wider than usual features, including a roomy toe box.
Wide feet may naturally expand out as they walk with a wider toe box, avoiding the uncomfortable pinching sensation that is frequent when wearing shoes that are too narrow for your feet.
What’s Considered A Wide Foot?
You might be wearing the improper width size if your feet feel uncomfortable in most shoes, even those that aren't overly thin. The simplest indication that your feet are wider than average is that you feel confined in every pair of shoes you wear, even though the length and fit are ideal.
How To Know If You Have Wide Feet?
Simply measuring your feet is the simplest approach to find out if they are wide. Unfortunately, there isn't a chart that measures widths universally that would let you know what width you require in any brand of shoes.
Place a piece of paper on an even surface and trace the outline of both feet, one at a time. Then, measure the distance between the broadest parts of each foot.
How is width measured?
There are three factors taken into consideration that determines shoe width:
- the length of the foot;
- the measurement between the widest points on the foot, i.e., the outer edge of the foot to the inner edge of the forefoot area (known as ball width);
- the circumference of the instep (known as instep girth).
Wide width shoes are wider across the shoe, deeper from top to bottom, roomier in the toe box area, and have a generous instep to accommodate wide or swollen feet.
How to find comfortable wide-width shoes
To make sure they fit properly and offer comfort, support, and pain relief, comfortable wide shoes should have a few key characteristics, like those offered by Fayybek orthotic shoes.
Extra space for toe movement and a snug, comfortable fit are provided by the extra-deep design and the roomy toe-box area. Every pair of shoes comes with two sets of detachable spacers that can be used to customize the interior of the shoe for a precise fit. The uppers' ability to stretch allows them to completely conform to the shape of the foot, providing a loose, customized fit and relieving pressure on bunions and hammertoes.
Fayybek shoes, which are biomechanically engineered with unique comfort features, offer a vast selection of wide orthopedic shoes for men and women.
Our collections are offered in wide, extra wide, and in certain styles extra-extra-wide widths in a range of styles and colors. You have 60 days to risk-free test out Fayybek wide width footwear! You can simply return them for a full refund if you're not happy.