POLL: School shoes: Where do you buy yours?

OrkneyStar

Clarks

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Thanks for voting everyone.

Have you started looking for new shoes for September yet?

Just a small point, us Scottish people actually go back in August.

Spendless

Clarks

With both kids with wide feet and one also having flat feet, my only choices tend to be either Clarks or Brantano. I haven't found any of the high street clothes shops doing anything that fits either of them. We have no independent shop. I don't enjoy the experience. It really is turn up at shop, pull off shelf the right sizes and then buy the first ones that fit.

Carmina-Piranha_2

Clarks

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Thanks for voting everyone.

Have you started looking for new shoes for September yet?

No, I polished the shoes I bought around Easter time and they look good - I'm hoping they still fit!

My eldest used to have a new pair roughly once a year, but my youngest grows more quickly so I don't buy new for September purely because it's September.

building_with_lego

Hush Puppies every time for our two. The last pair of Clark's DD had looked awful within one term (six weeks) whereas every pair of HushPups has lasted a minimum of five.

DS is particularly tough on his shoes. His first pair (HPs) lasted five terms, as did his second, also HPs. I then bought some from M&S to last the two terms to summer and they lasted one, got replaced and those also lasted one term. I then tried Geoxx ones at some great expense but they only lasted three terms until I went back to HPs which were outgrown at the beginning of term 6 just gone. I bought a pair of £6 canvas shoes from H&M to last the last few weeks and they have actually worn far better than the leather ones from M&S.

I've just found him new Hush Puppies in TK Maxx, the fit is perfect and hopefully they'll last much of the year.

Spendless

Clarks

I've never had a school pair of shoes last a whole year, not even with buying Brantano/Clarks which are dear. We've paid over £50 for a pair for son before (he's 14). We usually go through 2-3 pairs in a school year.

dawn_rose

Clarks

Ive been to clarks today to shoe my three, eeeeek lol

Carmina-Piranha_2

Clarks

Spendless wrote: »

With both kids with wide feet and one also having flat feet, my only choices tend to be either Clarks or Brantano. I haven't found any of the high street clothes shops doing anything that fits either of them. We have no independent shop. I don't enjoy the experience. It really is turn up at shop, pull off shelf the right sizes and then buy the first ones that fit.

We hate it too - wide feet, high instep and Clarks don't always have the H fitting available in the only style that will suit their elephantine feet.

Usually a Clarks fitter will tell us which style and which size we should order online, then if we get it delivered to the store they will check the fit before we buy.

We bought Hush Puppies from Brantano once and they were great, but with Brantano it varies by fitter.

barmonkey

Tesco

Whatever I buy my boy they never last past xmas. but Clarks are crap and usually fall apart after 6 / 8 weeks, I only ever buy them if I can get them for a greatly reduced price from Clarks Village

Carmina-Piranha_2

Clarks

Spendless wrote: »

I've never had a school pair of shoes last a whole year, not even with buying Brantano/Clarks which are dear. We've paid over £50 for a pair for son before (he's 14). We usually go through 2-3 pairs in a school year.

Eldest's Clarks shoes have lasted a year, typically more.

Carmina-Piranha_2

Clarks

Ugh, now Barmonkey has joined I'm going to have to vacate the thread, no offence BM