Shoes- fashion and healthy

Crocs are one of a number of shoe types that bridge the fashion health shoe divide. The others are the trainer or sneaker and more recently the five fingers shoe and the shoe with the curved sole.

The trainer style shoe continues to evolve and develop and there are many designs, colour and performance levels. Some of these shoes look like sports shoes, but their cost lets you know that the orthopedic design and assembly quality is missing.

With the likes of the five fingers shoe and crocs there is a very different design approach. These shoes have looks that, on the face of it, appear to blow in the face of fashion. But today fashion takes its cues from not only the catwalk, but what sportsmen and women wear and what looks outdoorish or sporty.

The result is that some of these very unusual looking shoes command not only high prices, but high customer loyalty and desirability. This is why five fingers shoes can cost well over a hundred UK pounds, US dollars, or EU euros. They look odd, but that is their appeal and that in turn seems to make them fashionable.

The other side to this fashion element is that it results in a number of copy cat companies taking the look and style of these shoes and then making a cut price version that appears similar, but has none of the orthopedic features, high quality materials or durability. These copy shoes always have a market, but they damage the reputation of the real shoe’s good name and they steal sales.

To get more of an idea of what is and is not a proper orthopedic shoe you can check out a few websites out , they will give some idea of the scope of healthy shoes that are currently available.