Why Irish dance shoes should be small and narrow?
Because of many different and high requirements of load, Irish dance shoes are rather a kind of tool with special properties. Because of their corresponding production you will purchase a high-quality and expensive but not a very comfortable footwear! This circumstances do sometimes lead into problems and alleged complaints from beginners and amateurs with new dance shoes. Some helpful tips: • Try your dance shoes at the daytime you will usually wear or dance in them. And even before dancing please, never afterwards. The same to measuring your feet for foot tracings! • Irish jig shoes and Boys reel shoes will and should always feel just “a little bit too small and/or narrow” at the beginning and they should be ideal after breaking-in. Especially hard shoes will even feel very narrow in the upper part of the forefoot because the ball will be pressed to the leather from the tip plate which is mounted directly under the ball. But this is also usual at the beginning. If your feet contact t
