Where to get feet measured with no Stride Rite stores?

[Anonymous]

This is not a science. Just try on shoes at any shoe store.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is 6 and I’ve never had her feet measured. When buying shoes I start with size up from where she was the last time I bought shoes and go from there. I almost exclusively order online (always somewhere that has easy returns) and never had an issue.

How would you know if there were an issue?

I've tried your way during the first year of covid and miraculously failed 3 kids. Js.

NP here. It’s not hard. I truly don’t understand how you can’t figure out if your kids shoes are too small or too big.

[Anonymous]

Shoe Train. Drive to MD for this...it's worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't bother with stride rite, the Velcro failed on ours 2 months in and they were so so ratty. Called the shoe train owner ( where we got fitted and purchased) and he said.... Oh that's normal, the avg life of a kids shoe is only 2-3 months.

We get keens sneakers in the fall winter and wear the sandals in the spring summer. They last thru at least 2 kids and my kids exclusively wear these shoes rough and hard. They are no more expensive than stride rites.

Buy your younger kids new shoes. Do not pass down shoes that have been worn “rough and hard”. Their adult feet will thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is 6 and I’ve never had her feet measured. When buying shoes I start with size up from where she was the last time I bought shoes and go from there. I almost exclusively order online (always somewhere that has easy returns) and never had an issue.

How would you know if there were an issue?

I've tried your way during the first year of covid and miraculously failed 3 kids. Js.

NP here. It’s not hard. I truly don’t understand how you can’t figure out if your kids shoes are too small or too big.

For some it is. I’ll never forget the family in Stride Rite years ago whose child was wearing shoes 4 sizes too small. They were flabbergasted. I was flabbergasted that they didn’t realize it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child is 6 and I’ve never had her feet measured. When buying shoes I start with size up from where she was the last time I bought shoes and go from there. I almost exclusively order online (always somewhere that has easy returns) and never had an issue.

I am 44. I had this similar thought for years. How hard is it?
Then I got a pair of Hokas and holy shit! I have been wearing the wrong shoes for like 35 years. Anyone can use a shoe measuring device but that only tell you how long your foot is. Where the comfort came for me, and apparently my kids also, is the width. Shoe train fitted my child with an extra extra wide and were able to tell me which brand carried those. I will never not go to have shoes properly fitted again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the tool I have at home.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DGSHM9N/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&aaxitk=65b066a045d5d84efacfc29a2d5c2303&hsa_cr_id=1909784510101&pd_rd_plhdr=t&pd_rd_r=8b1afd9b-2aa0-49f1-814b-9056fa94d062&pd_rd_w=J6f5A&pd_rd_wg=8IasL&ref_=sbx_be_s_sparkle_mcd_asin_0_img&th=1

I found this to be remarkably inaccurate as the kids grew

[Anonymous]

Shoe Train or Nordstrom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nordstrom

Yes and you get a balloon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is 6 and I’ve never had her feet measured. When buying shoes I start with size up from where she was the last time I bought shoes and go from there. I almost exclusively order online (always somewhere that has easy returns) and never had an issue.

I am 44. I had this similar thought for years. How hard is it?
Then I got a pair of Hokas and holy shit! I have been wearing the wrong shoes for like 35 years. Anyone can use a shoe measuring device but that only tell you how long your foot is. Where the comfort came for me, and apparently my kids also, is the width. Shoe train fitted my child with an extra extra wide and were able to tell me which brand carried those. I will never not go to have shoes properly fitted again.

A brannock device measures width.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to depend upon stride Rite to measure my son’s feet, which are on the border of wide. Where do you go to get kid feet measured for shoes?

I have a very high risk child so we have not gone into shoe stores. you can print out the foot measures from stride rite and then order shoes online