How To Find The Perfect Ballet Shoe For Your Feet

Here's how to find the perfect shoe for you. Firstly, if we look at our soft ballet shoes, generally the fashion nowadays is to have canvas ballet shoes with a split sole. So, a split sole is where you have one part here for the ball of the foot and a different part for the heel and nothing in the arch there and that makes your foot look very nice when you point.

You can get them in canvas or you can have them in leather and of course, you can have a full sole at the back here, too. With these particular shoes here, they have an elastic bit around the edge of the show there that hugs to your foot nicely and they look much prettier. The other alternative is to have a drawstring here.

On these shoes, the drawstring is at the side here, which again hugs the shoe around your foot or traditionally, the drawstring is at the front that you can pull and tighten the shoe. And those are the different types of ballet shoes that you can have. And to find the perfect pointe shoe for you, you need to go to a specialist shop such as Dancier, Block, Sansha and Capicio and they're all very well-known brand names of pointe shoes.

These particular ones here have been fitted especially for me and the best way to do it is to go to the shop and they will fit you and when you put your foot into the shoe and you go on to pointe, they will see how much space you have at the back of the shoe here. It should be half an inch, just there. Also, the thing to watch for from this point of the shoe is that it doesn't swing off the heel here.

If it does, it's not the right size there. So, this should be flushed at the back of the heel, it shouldn't move from side to side and you should have an inch at the top here. With the front of the shoe, with the pointe shoes here, it depends on the shape of your foot.

So for instance, my foot is wide at the joint but then it's quite tapered with the toes here. So, these shoes are especially made for that. You might have people who have wide shoe with wide toes and would therefore need more of a block that would come out of here.

But again, your specialist shop should tell you all of this information when you go for your fitting. So, you come out with the perfect shoes for you. .