The price of kid's shoes

Astaroth

Quackers wrote:

The kids shoes are made to be much more hardwearing. Kids of this age still play on the playground at school and adults shoes wouldn't wear as well.

Are they? I can see that certainly you wouldnt want you kid playing football in the playground in a pair of £600 Jimmi Choo shoes as they certainly would break too easily but I know when I was in school my parents always bought me Doctor Martin shoes (always a difficulty finding the ones without the yellow sticking which wasnt allowed by the school) due to their durability... went through the kids sizes and into the adults and certainly have no recollection of the adults ones lasting any less (and they all lasted much longer than any other brand of shoes I had had before)

Quackers

Astaroth wrote:

Are they? I can see that certainly you wouldnt want you kid playing football in the playground in a pair of £600 Jimmi Choo shoes as they certainly would break too easily but I know when I was in school my parents always bought me Doctor Martin shoes (always a difficulty finding the ones without the yellow sticking which wasnt allowed by the school) due to their durability... went through the kids sizes and into the adults and certainly have no recollection of the adults ones lasting any less (and they all lasted much longer than any other brand of shoes I had had before)

aaaahhhh, I loved my docs

I wasn't talking about something as substantial as Docs though. They are obviously going to be the same regardless of size.

I'm referring to the 'ladies' shoes that kids buy now. Slim pump type shoes which are really popular. There's hardly anything to the sole - they're usually really thin. Lots of parents buy these for their kids from the ladies dept and dont realise they are more of a fashion shoe than a hardwearing durable school shoe. There's a huge difference.

RAMBLER

My sister bought a pair of Clark's shoes the other year and even though they fell apart within a couple of weeks, they refused to take them back. We even went to Head Office and they were just a waste of space. Never again.

nikiyoung

Clarks shoes last about a day with out beeing scuffed badly by my DD (6) (she isn't hard on shoes) so I have decided to try out the supermarket shoes to see if they last a bit longer! at a £20 saving (clarks £32) we will be giving some Asda £12 shoes a try.
With 2nd DD starting school i need to save some money on shoes!

finc

I can't get shoes for my daughter from Asda etc as she has wide feet and a high instep and they just don't fit properly I would prefer to not scrimp on shoes for growing feet and cut back on less important things.

I agree that as hard wearing as they are supposed to be, Clarks shoes do scuff easily and look quite tatty within a week however they DO fit properly unlike the Asda ones.

A friend of mine has her priorities a bit mixed up and will only buy cheap shoes for schoolwear but spends £50+ for out of school shoes.
This is despite the fact that her daughter spends far more time in her school shoes.

looby75

I used to have a nightmare getting shoes for my dd, she has a very wide foot and high instep, I used to have to go to Clarks and often it took the full 6 weeks of the holidays before they had any to fit her in stock. She never got to pick what shoes she wanted either, it was always a case of she had to have whatever they could get in her size/width.

She's 13 now and a size 6 so in adult sizes and it's so much easier to find shoes to fit, but I still found that the best fitting ones for here are kickers which cost around £45-60 (they did last her all year last year though)

I had ordered her a pair of Kickers out of my catalogue (mainly so I could pay them off bit by bit) but when we went shopping today she saw a pair of shoes in shoe zone that she said she really liked. She tried them on and said they fitted great and said she would rather have those than the kickers (she didn't want the same style shoes 2 years in a row) I wasn't sure I could afford to pay out for them there and then as I had just paid £35 for her blazer but when I saw the price I nearly ran to the counter with them.

£9.99 :j :j :j

Now for that price I don't expect them to last all year like her last 2 pairs of kickers have, but I can get her 4 pairs of shoes through out the year and still have saved money Oh and she has been a size 6 shoe for over a year now so chances are she is going to grow again soon anyway.