Buying Childrens Shoes & Clothing

Video Transcript

"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."