Shrinking shoes

[marathonmedic]

I've got a pair of 5.10 Moccasyms that I love but when I got them back from the resoler for the second time, they seem to be a tad too large and my foot shifts around inside on technical faces. Does anyone know how to shrink a pair of shoes without ruining my quality rubber? I'm looking to shrink about 1/2 US size or so.

[KD]

i had to buy a pair of street size shoes this past week because my anasazi's (resoled a bunch) were too tight for multi day climbing. I think that my feet swell on long approaches with heavy pack and warmer days. The new shoes were as precise as my usual ones were. So ...i'd either use 'em for those kind of days or wash them in the washing machine - stuff them with something like newspaper-cloth etc., and let them dry outside a bit in the sun. being that moccasyms are natural leather that will shrink 'em - jus' monitor the situation and don't let them shrink out of shape.

[merrick]

leather shoes stretch. once the leather is stretched too much they will never go back to how you like them. luckily your feet are what stretch them. so if you buy another pair of mocs and put them on your feet they will stretch to just how you like them after some steady use. then, if you size them tight, they will continue to stretch until they are too loose.

this problem is intensified with slippers and how tight you size them. tightly fit slippers stretch quickly.

i would suggest buying another pair.

the way i size them i burn through a pair of mocs every three months. the rubber blows through in that amount of time and the fit gets a little loose. i toss them in the shoe graveyard and buy another pair.

luckily mocs are one of the cheaper shoes out there.


ps. you might want to be careful and try on any pair of 5.10 shoes before you buy them even if you have owned the shoe before in that size. i noticed that their sizing has changed a few times in the last few years. i even had 2 pairs of the same shoe at the same store in the same size that fit differently. whether the changes were intentional or just a quality control issue, try em on before you buy em.

[longlegsrule]

stick them in the fridge for a while

[strum]

this same thing kept happening to me, tried everything, souldn't shrink them, ended up cutting some of the leather out and resewing them, worked like a charm, but I had to use pretty buff thread, which then caused rubbed raw spots on my feet. still wear them every now and then...