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There are tens of thousands of shoe manufacturers in the world and quality ranges to suit every pocket. Like everything in life you pay your money and make your choice. There are some very expensive long lasting designer trainers but at the other end of the scale there are some very inexpensive machine made cheap in price and quality trainers that should really be avoided. The very cheap end of the market produces shoes that are non-biodegradable and long after some thoughtless person has thrown them into the gutter they will still be there. Throwing shoes and boots is a strange but popular business. In New Zealand where there is not a lot to do other than count sheep and beat each other up playing rugby to get rid of all that pent up aggression, gumboot throwing is almost a national pastime. Some New Zealanders are so good at the sport that they have been petitioning the Olympic committee to have it included into the Games. The trouble is that once you let gum boot throwing in it is only a short hop to allowing dwarf chucking. In many parts of the world but particularly in the United States of America there is the odd business of throwing shoes and boots tied by the laces up and over power lines to hang there for ever. It seems this business started with the military when soldiers leaving the army barracks for the very last time would paint their boots yellow and do this at the nearest power line. The custom has extended to lone trees in remote areas and one well known tree in the middle of a desert that is miles from civilisation has several hundred shoes hanging from it. The symbolism of the tree bearing boots and shoes may also have something to do with the old superstition about empty shoes or boots representing a departed soul. Maybe all this behaviour should be analysed by a psychiatrist with a sound knowledge of the foot fetish. The foot is indeed a remarkable part of our anatomy with more bones concentrated there than any other part of our skeleton. The complexities of a relatively small part of our anatomy and the amount of pressures and work feet have to do means we should do our best to look after them. Wearing good fitting shoes that are of a minimum quality to support all areas of the foot is the very least we can do. Feet may have to carry us four score years and ten so it is very unwise to buy the very cheapest ill-fitting shoes. It is also a false economy to buy the very cheapest as they will not last anything like as long as the more expensive and better made pair. Rieker shoes are a good example of quality and comfort you would expect from a German family owned business that has been satisfying customers for generations. Another old established British company supplies Rieker shoes and many other brands and helpful friendly people will answer any enquiry at http://www.davidspruce.co.uk.
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