Hoof Shoes is a family owned business in Timaru specialising in providing funky, durable and affordable children shoes to New Zealand households.
We live in a country that provides a vast and varied environment for our children to discover and explore. It is important for those little feet to explore in comfort and style.
We aim to offer a range of shoes that satisfy parent’s need for quality and durability.
We aim to offer a range of shoes that satisfy our little one’s need for comfort with a touch of funk.
It is our mission to grow and develop the Hoof Shoes brand by providing funky footwear for little feet for every occasion.
Did you know that your foot contains 26 bones, 33 joints, more than 100 tendons, muscles, and ligaments, and a whopping 250,000 sweat glands? That may seem like a lot of anatomy in a relatively small package, but then again, your feet are charged with the very important task of supporting the entire body.
Kids’ feet endure about 3 times more stress than the average adult foot. This is because of children’s high activity levels and greater proportion of high impact activities compared with adults. Because of the high stress that a child’s foot endures, children should wear shoes with good shock absorption, a well-made foot bed, and durable soles. Flexibility is also very important in childrens’ shoes; it helps them to strengthen the muscles on their own!
In our efforts to offer a range of funky shoes for your little ones feet hoof shoes are manufactured from a number of suppliers making “generic” sizing difficult. Inner sole measurements do vary from one style of shoe to another.
The most accurate method for getting the correct shoe size is to measure your child’s foot, not a shoe they are currently wearing.
hoof recommends that you re-measure your child’s foot prior to purchasing any new or existing styles.
STEP BY STEP GUIDE
With your child standing up/weight bearing, measure from the back of the heel through to the longest toe. You can make this fun by drawing their foot on a piece of paper. Remember to measure both feet as they can differ slightly from left to right.
Using the longest foot measurement, add 15 mm (if your child is under 18 months allow 10 mm only)
Select the shoe size with the corresponding inner sole measurement
e.g. Style: Mr Fox Gumboot
Childs foot measurement = 154mm
Add 15mm (*10mm for a child <18 months)
Total measurement = 169mm
Looking at the drop down list of sizes for Mr Fox the correct size to order for this style is hoof® size 26 (172mm).
** If the total measurement falls between two sizes, hoof ® recommends you choose the larger size.
