Why Do I Feel Tightness In My Shoes

[neo_n]

why do i feel a tightness near the throat, eyelets, and tongue of my shoes even though i loosen the laces. This isn't the first time that i got new shoes and i felt the same thing.

[barry1010]

Maybe the style of shoe is not deep enough for your foot. Have you got very high arches?

[brainiac]

Your feet will have expanded in this heat

[Baldric]

You bought the wrong size?

[sanmac]

I have often found the following technique to work: Really loosen the laces and stuff the shoe/s with rolled-up newspaper. Really JAM the paper rolls in with force from the toe to heel and let sit for a few days.

[jennyjoan]

the newspaper roll never worked for me

[jno]

I expect brainiac's right, feet swell in the heat.

[douglas9401]

No offence. :-)

[tonyav]

Are you supposed to dampen the rolled up news paper.

[Hopkirk]

The leather is probably stiff, but will soften up with use.

[sanmac]

JJ, it's worked for me. The thing is you have to really impact the paper forcefully into the shoe; there's no point in just placing it in there and giving it a couple of nudges. I use the handle of a hammer to force the paper in there.

[sanmac]

Tony, I have heard of people doing that, but I don't. It's just one of those things that works for some people and doesn't for others. It's akin to a poster asking what's the best pain-reliever you can buy over the counter. Someone will post he/she swears by a certain brand, and later on someone says" it doesn't do a thing for me".

[tonyav]

Righto, sanmac. I have only heard of the dampened newspaper method.

[Canary42]

I've never tried this, so can't speak for its effectiveness, but I can't see why it wouldn't work.

Line the inside of the shoe with a polythene bag, fill with water, place in the freezer.

Anyone tried it ?

[sanmac]

Canary42, when I first read your suggestion I thought there's a good idea, but then I thought that the shoe material would freeze and resist the frozen water. This is becoming

[sanmac]

...quite a project:)

[neo_n]

no i didn't buy the wrong size
no my feet did not swell up, because it is a nice 72 degrees inside and i don't go out as much do to the virus.
and no i am not trying to looses up the laces i'm wanting to get rid of the uncomfortable felling that i have specifically the vertical tightness specifically around the throat and eyelets of the shoes, and probably a little of the tongue

[neo_n]

also @barry1010 what do you mean "Have you got very high arches?". what are arches?

[THECORBYLOON]

I've not heard of shoes having a throat and looking at various images, it appears to refer to different areas of the shoe.

Anyway, how about bashing whatever area you're calling a throat, with the heavy handle of a screwdriver to soften the leather/material?

[jno]

the arch is the upward curve under your foot

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0909/6780/files/The_Arches_of_the_Foot_4290956a-62f2-42fc-b06c-ff0ff82b2a1a.jpg?v=1478770515

[jno]

okay, if this is a thing whenever you buy new shoes, then you need to buy ones that fit better - especially if even loosening the laces doesn't help, because that's what laces are for.

If however you find they soon stretch to fit you (without crushing your feet to fit them), then it's up to you whether it's enough of a problem to want to deal with.