Cast your mind back to childhood, and we are sure that one of your ‘not-so-fond’ memories will be of the Saturday afternoon trip to the shoe shop. Walking out with a pair of ‘sensible’ shoes, while those funky little pink numbers stayed on the shelf! At the time, a tantrum or two was probably the order of the day, but as you look back, you are probably thanking your parents for ensuring you wore a well-fitted pair of shoes, because you now know it is for that reason that you don’t have bunions, corns, a weird gait, or sore back. Nowadays the story is a little better for children, there are now many styles of shoe that fit both the ‘funky’ and the ‘sensible’ category at the same time.

Lelli Kelly shoes are the perfect example; they are made to the highest specifications in order to ensure that children who wear their shoes have healthy feet. The manufacturer guarantees that they meet the strictest of European regulation governing children’s footwear. Moreover, they come in a fantastic range of child-friendly designs, and children will be unaware they have left the store with the ‘sensible’ option — the ideas behind these concept shoes are ingenious and innovative.

There are several reasons why shoes must fit well, particularly concerning children’s feet; some problems that arise from wearing the wrong size shoes can affect a person for their entire lifetime! That is a long time to warrant not spending that little bit extra to make certain that shoes keep feet healthy and safe. Problems that can arise in adulthood due to ill-fitting shoes in childhood include bunions, hammertoe, knee problems, back and posture problems, in growing toenails, and various other deformities.As you can now appreciate, the problem of ill-fitting shoes in childhood has a lifetime effect on the person. As parents, we all care immensely about the health of our child, yet sometimes we do not realise where we may go wrong. Concerning footwear, it is very easy to assume that, because feet grow so quickly in children, there is no point buying expensive shoes, however, a decent amount of money should be spent in order to avoid many more problems. On the surface, it may feel that you saved money but in the end, this will prove a false economy.

Lelli Kelly are perfect to this end, although prices can be a little steep, with this brand of footwear; you are ensuring the protection of your child’s health in general — a key concern to most parents. Never buy shoes that are too big for your child, in the belief ‘they will grow into them’. Because the bones in children’s feet are still relatively soft, if you put them in shoes that are too big, the movement of the feet because of the extra space will change the shape of the foot. It is false economy to scrimp when buying shoes for children.