Stretching Leather Shoes?

[BobsYourUncle]

In my area, you can take a pair of shoes to a shoe repair shop and have them put in stretchers. They will charge you something like 3-5 dollars a day, and will usually recommend 3 to 5 days. You may want to check out what services are available to you locally. Or, if you think you will need to stretch shoes on a regular basis [say, you are frequently in between sizes], you may want to buy your own version of the stretchers that a shoe repair shop will use. Such stretchers are available here: http://www.shoeandfootcare.com/c/sho...FUFM5QodbEmuSA

All of that having been said, there are limits to what you can accomplish by stretching. It may be better to simply get a different pair of shoes that fits your foot better. You might even consider tracking down someone who can make you a pair of bench made shoes individually made and fitted to each of your feet. You may want to consider that buying ready made off the shelf shoes that don't fit, having to purchase shoe stretchers to improve the fit, and then having to live with shoes that don't really fit...at the end of the day it may be more cost effective to get custom shoes. Your dogs will love you for it....just some thoughts...

[Kett]

I have never tried this myself, so I cannot vouch for how well it works - but the following comes from another forum I frequent:

someone else recently asked a similar question and this is what I told them and what I find works fabulously with all my shoes... Take a zip lock baggie (size depending upon the space you are stretching... so if it is a small enough area a sandwich size will be fine, size it up as the area of the shoe you are trying to stretch increases)... fill it about 1/4-1/2 the way with water, close it up, place inside the boot/shoe area that needs to be stretched. (if it is the part going down into the boot, you may need to put tissue paper/paper towels..something to prop up the baggie. Put whole thing into the freezer. Once solid, bring the boot out and allow the ice to partially melt, just enough to be able to slip it back out of the boot. VOILA! stretched. I do that to my high heels all the time, and ballet flats, etc. Works best with leather. If it is faux, you may need to repeat.

ETA: this will stretch it 1/2-1 shoe size for the area

Best of luck to you.