Shoe Stores
Softies Shoes
About Softies Shoes
Feet take a beating in a town built for being outside. Between the channel, two beaches, the promenade and a downtown people cross on foot all summer, a Penticton wardrobe gets through footwear at a fair clip, and the difference between shoes that fit and shoes that merely fasten becomes obvious by August. Softies Shoes is at 319 Martin St, a block off the main commercial run.
Buying shoes in a room where someone measures your foot is a different exercise from ordering a size online and hoping. A shop of this kind can check length and width together, watch how a foot behaves under load, work around a high instep or a fallen arch, and say plainly when a shape is wrong no matter how much you like the look of it. What any given shop keeps on the wall varies widely, and so does the range of widths and the depth of stock in the sizes at either end of the scale, so a phone call ahead of a special trip is time well spent.
A few practical habits make a fitting go better. Come later in the day, when feet have swollen to their real working size. Bring the socks you actually intend to wear, and bring any orthotic that has to go inside the shoe, because an insert changes the fit more than most people expect. Say out loud what the shoes are for, whether that is standing at work, walking the lakeshore, or getting through a winter of icy sidewalks.
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In the Downtown Penticton neighbourhood of Penticton.
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