What shoe is right for me?

     Leading footwear vendors each year improve their footwear on the basis of the needs of customers and extensive research, which makes buying footwear difficult to find that caters to each individual’s particular needs. Sometimes walking into a footwear store is overwhelming to a customer.
     There are so many shoes on the wall and how does one start to choose which shoes are right for them. Do I choose on color? Do I choose based on fit? Do I choose based on what I do?
     These are the basic questions that run through the consumer’s mind. As these factors are very important, it’s just as important to get the best fit to your overall needs. These needs can also be to help get over an injury such severe heel pain, leg pain, back pain, knee pain, etc.
     Consumers can also try to do as much research on their own through various channels, such as magazines or reviews but shoes are meant to be tried on. Also, getting expert advice from a reliable shoe store that actually fits their customers is at best the most important factor in choosing the right footwear.
     Most shoe fitting places are trained to get you into the right footwear by using a simple method known as a “gait analysis.” Gait analysis is a quick review of how a person’s natural walk allows a fitter to determine what type of footwear to recommend.
     This review can only be done while a person walks without shoes on and is viewed from behind, which means that a person that wants to be analyzed walks away from the person reviewing the gait. This determines which way an arch flattens or not. This simple process known to fitters can easily help narrow down the choices for a customer.
     Shoe fitters should also know all of your needs to help this process of choosing footwear easier for you. Needs can be anything from what activities you do, to what injuries you may have, to what surface you’re using the shoes for (work, gym, the park).