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Hi, welcome to Expert Village I'm Gretchen Soares and today we're going to be discussing
how to shop for children's clothing. In this clip we're talk about picking shoes for our
children. We're in a recycled shoe store which, or at a recycled clothing store which means
they have recycled shoes and this store happens to carry new shoes. Recycled shoes are a little
tricky. You really want to be careful of how you train your child's foot to grow and so
you have to be careful of what you put on their foot. You can pick shoes that look very,
like they haven't been worn basically, like this child grew out of it really fast. You
don't want to pick a pair that looks like the soles are broken down or that they've
had a lot of wear on them because then your child's foot is going to conform to the other
child's foot and that's not as healthy; this pair, wow look at that, little very little
wear on the soles, the soles look great we can open them up and look inside. The insoles
still have a lot of life left in them they're still really soft and gushy. This is a great
way to by used shoes. This is a pair of shoes that's probably going to cost you about thirty
dollars new and they're only five dollars here. That's great that's great, that's a
great buy. We could look at something like this though these are; these are a little
more worn. They still have fair tread on them but you can see where the heel's broken down
here a little bit and when you look inside this pair you can see that the insoles are
really not in that great of condition this would be a pair that I would not buy my child.
Here are some great little sandals and they don't have much wear on them, they look in
really good condition. The insoles still have a lot of give in them. Something like that
would be really good too. When you're building your child's wardrobe you really want to make
sure you have two to three good sturdy pairs of play shoes. For little boys something with
a little ankle support and that's going to be good for jumping' around outside is really
good. Little girls just a standard pair of sneakers would be really good. You want to
make sure that they're sturdy and they can do a lot of running and playing especially
when they're a toddler age. And then you probably just need like one pair of dress shoes. For
boys, a little bit dressier for church, special occasions, going out to dinner. Little girls
they like their dress shoes I tend to have about two pairs of dress shoes in to different
colors for my daughter so that she has a little variety and she can get a little sparkly.