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How to stretch your sneakers in width - 13 surefire ways

But all this is subject to the correct size. Alas, in sneakers you can experience all the torment that is inevitable when you have uncomfortable shoes on your feet. What if the brand new sports shoes squeeze the leg like a vise, preventing a step to step without discomfort and pain? We are ready to give you some practical tips to adjust the size of the pair, making it exactly as required.

What is the risk of wearing smaller shoes?

Sometimes, when you try on your favorite shoes in a store, you can't fully assess its convenience. And even if, according to the first sensations, she was sitting perfectly, a longer stay in it will clearly signal the wrong size. Indeed, in sneakers, like in any other shoe, it is important to feel complete comfort, ideally - they should not be felt on your feet at all.

Remember, prolonged stay in tight shoes not only promises discomfort and spoiled mood, but is also very unhealthy. With strong squeezing, blood circulation in the foot is disturbed, the nail plates suffer, which can be completely deprived if you persist in walking in uncomfortable shoes.

Systematic wearing of tight boots is fraught with:

• development of diseases of veins and joints;

• deformation of bone and cartilage tissue;

• violation of gait and poor posture.

It is strictly forbidden to wear tight shoes for children and adolescents, because their skeletal system is in the process of formation. Therefore, take the time - carefully try on the pair you like on both legs, walk around the store with it.

How to stretch tight sneakers?

The shoes you bought turned out to be small? Don't despair, there are several ways to stretch it. Many of them are known to the majority, others are quite extravagant and unusual.

1. First, try to exchange or return your sneakers. If 14 days have not passed since the date of purchase, and the purchase was not made on special conditions (sale, promotion, defective product), the store administration has no right to refuse you. When a refund is not possible, try to get rid of the unsuccessful new thing yourself - resell it.

But, if you don't want to think about it, try the methods below.

2. The first thing they advise to do is just walk around the house in tight boots for several days. Natural materials - leather, nubuck and suede are slightly stretched, shoes made of them, over time, repeat the shape of the wearer's foot. Therefore, many manufacturers of high-quality sports shoes advise buying them half a size smaller. And to speed up the process of "grinding" new shoes and feet, firms apply a special spray to their products. Sprinkle them on the inside of the boots, put the shoes on toes, preferably warm and tight, and walk like that for half an hour. Do this several times if necessary. Do not forget to protect the most vulnerable places of the foot with a plaster, and lubricate the back of the pair with ordinary candle wax / soap or wipe with alcohol. This will save you from corns and calluses.

3. If this method does not help, try contacting a shoe shop, where, using special stretching devices, the shoes are increased by 0.5-1 size.

4. Another option is to buy wooden blocks for mechanical impact on a close pair. With their help, you can not only stretch, but also store your shoes correctly. Before inserting the pads into the shoes, treat the lining with a stretching spray, in the absence of it - with alcohol or a glass cleaner. You can evaluate the result in a day.

Remember that you can only stretch the shoe in width, the length is clearly fixed with fastening seams.Therefore, if you feel how your toes are strongly resting on the toes of new shoes, most likely you will have to look for a new owner for them.

Folk methods of stretching a new pair

There are several popular, simple methods for making skinny sneakers stretch a little.

5. The first is based on a principle known to everyone from school physics lessons, namely, on an increase in the volume of water when it freezes. To carry out the experiment, you will need directly a narrow pair and two dense bags filled with water. The bags are placed in sneakers, which then have to spend a day in the refrigerator. They promise that this will make them more pliable and softer.

6. The second method is just the opposite, it involves exposure to high temperatures. You can simply pour boiling water into your sneakers or hold them over the steam, kneading them well with your hands. The method is applicable only to leather shoes that really soften from high temperatures. Dermatine boots will simply lose their appearance and become hopelessly deformed.

7. You can put on a new pair on terry socks, previously soaked in hot water, or gently beat off problem areas of the boots (toe, heel) with a hammer. But you must act carefully so as not to spoil the fashionable "adidas" or "Nike".

There are also such methods:

8. Fill the shoes tightly with sheets of newspaper soaked in water and let them dry completely at room temperature (do not put on a radiator, do not dry with a hairdryer).

9. From the inside, wipe the shoes with 3% vinegar solution.

10. Soak the inner surface of the pair with ordinary alcohol, and then rub liberally with laundry soap with a fat content of 72%.

11. Treat the lining of the shoes with kerosene, and walk in them for 20-30 minutes.

12. Thoroughly apply window and glass cleaner on both sides of the shoe, then wear it out for an hour.

13. Heat a couple with a jet of hot air from a hair dryer, brush with sunflower oil and put on warm terry or woolen socks.

As you can see, individual methods must be used very carefully, otherwise, instead of a worn pair, a spoiled one will turn out. In addition, not all methods are applicable to leatherette or thin leather products. Therefore, be extremely careful when buying new shoes so as not to expose them later to your chemical-physical experiments.

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