What’s The Point of 4E Wide Shoes?
If you don’t need wide shoes, you can stop reading this, but if you have wide or extra wide feet, you best pay attention. Extra-large sizes are not adequate to keep you comfortable if you have wide feet that need 4E wide shoes as well, and here’s why. Shoe size is important, and while it is hard to find shoes in extra-large sizes, it is not the only thing that matters. Width, for example, makes just as much of an impact on comfort as size does, yet width does not get the same attention as size by any stretch. However, width is important both to comfort and function. Consider a situation in which you needed to wear work boots. If your shoes or boots were too narrow, you would be working against yourself. Your shoes or boots would be painfully pinched your feet and toes and maybe even your ankles, depending on how tight they really were. This doesn’t even say anything about a need for steel toe or safety toe boots. Wearing safety toe boots that are not wide enough is circumscribed by...