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TBH dudes with foot fetishes assume no one else knows what a foot fetish is, and that’s where they run into trouble. See: Dan Snyder and Nickolodean.
Example:
Dude 1 openly harasses me about my butt, I hate it and move on with my life
Dude 2 thinks he’s being slick. Talks to me for a few minutes bullshitting/smalltalk before the conversation is suddenly about how I’m on my feet all day and what shoes do you wear and what about your socks and… etc
One is a cat call, the other is some weird social engineering shit that also insults my intelligence. I’m not making this up, these dudes try this on multiple targets until they can find a mark. My coworkers have to deal with it too. Don’t see them a lot but we warn each other about the foot guy.
Sorry to all you normal, respectful people with foot fetishes, I’m sure you give awesome consensual foot rubs.
That poor retired podiatrist keeps getting called a creep for trying to talk about foot health...
He's got his retired gynecologist friend to commiserate with.
Here I just wanted to talk shoes and recommend some decent merino wool socks.
For real tho, my job has me on my feet for the entirety of my shift - I found an awesome insole that makes the day so much less painful, and I 100% pitch that shit to my coworkers when it comes up, cuz foot pain sucks.
...now this thread has me worried that I've been pinned as 'that guy' lol.
I'm both of these people. I like foots. But also, I have terrible foot pain due to high arches, and have had mostly jobs where I'm on my feet for hours. I will talk insoles and inserts whenever possible, as a way of helping people with foot pain. What I do not do is have any interest in talking foot stuff as a kink/fetish. Kink and fetish are reserved for consensual bedroom (or camping) times. There's no connection between the foot pain convos and the foot kink whenever that happens. People who try to stealth their way into nonconsensually getting people to play into their kink are creepy, and not good people.
You probably won't have very much luck with over the counter inserts, the vast majority are built to treat people with flat feet who over pronate. Conversely people with high arches tend to supinate, aka carry too much weight on the outside of the foot.
So most otc inserts will actually make foot pain from higher arches worse, especially if it's hind foot pain. For my patients with higher arches who lack coverage for custom inserts, I will typically fit them with a pair of Arch Rival from a company called Don Joy, you can usually find them online or Amazon.
They are pretty decent out of the box at treating cavus arches. However, if someone is having significant ankle pain, I will typically modify it with a small amount of lateral heel wedging.
Up until a few ago I was getting my inserts from a local place, you put them in hot water and then stand on them for a couple minutes until they cool and harden.
Then I got insurance that covered them. The difference it makes is insane. I lost that insurance 2 years ago, and I've been alternating the 3 pair trying to get them to last as long as possible. At this point there's not much left of them, but they're all I've got. It's 200 bucks for my next set (3 pair), and I'm gonna have to figure that out soon.
If the new ones are just heat moldable inserts aswell, you can probably find them online for cheaper.
I don't tend to utilize heat moldable inserts very often, but they generally only cost around $15-20 a pair from most distributors. The mark up on anything foot care related is pretty insane if you're going to a brick and mortar.
If the new ones are really custom, where they took an impression of your foot with a scanner, plaster tape, or casting box, then 200 for 3 pairs is a really good deal.
Yeah, they 3d scanned my feets. The new insurance pays some, just not sure how much. 200 is the out of pocket.
i want your recommendations
Unfortunately, the ones I'm a fan of have been discontinued. It was the Enduro-Sole by Columbia. I lived near a Columbia clearance store when they got axed, and they had a TON of them for super cheap, so I stocked up.
...and I'm almost out. Q_Q
What made them good is that they're made of a rubbery material that gets soft when it's super hot, so the first thing you'd do when you crack a new pair open is put them in the oven and bake them at like 250* for a few minutes. Take them out, quickly put them in your shoes, step in, and just walk a bit until they cool.
It was hot enough to be uncomfortable, but not so much that you'd actually get burned. Kinda like molding a mouth guard from boiling water.
Anyway, once it conformed to your feet and then cooled, that shape became permanent, so even with a brand new stiff-ass pair of shoes, you pop those insoles in and it'd feel like they've been broken in for years.
There's probably something else on the market that works the same way, but I haven't actually searched, since I've never needed to; but the Columbia ones at least are SO comfortable!
Well, the good news is that lots of different companies make thermal moldable inserts. From what you said and the info from the link, they're probably made out of Cloud Crepe with a durometer of 45 or less. So when you run out it shouldn't be a big deal, should be pretty easy to find.
Oven baked insoles. Now I'm closer to having read everything
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I didn't realize we were getting into nsfw territory here...
i meant for insoles D:
My feet are fucked and the easiest way to explain it is with gloves.
Just think about gloves or mittens. They fit over your hand perfectly. I mean it's obvious right? You make hand shaped things for hands, why would you do anything else?
Yet you look at shoes and none of them are fucking foot shaped and everyone acts like this is normal.
So I hate feet, I hate my feet and I'm sure I hate your feet. But I'll still rant about shoes and feet if it comes up.
Yet you look at shoes and none of them are fucking foot shaped and everyone acts like this is normal.
I recall seeing a lot of "internet hate" at finger shoes. There's even a xkcd of that
Just get ones wide enough for your toes.
I wear altras, makes the world of difference
But also you can get a pair of Whitin Barefoot Shoes for $30. That might be a significantly cheaper start.
Your posture should improve with zero drop shoes. The human body is not made to sit on ever so slight high heels, and 99% sneakers do just that. Wide toe boxes and flexible soles allow you to use the muscles in your feet to walk. Instead of flopping them around like they're made of meat stuffed in a rain boot.