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School shoe specialists, Start-Rite Shoes, put children’s wellbeing front-and-centre, providing durable multi-width fitting school shoes, packed with innovation and informed by biomechanics.
Scoring top of the class this back to school are new innovations designed to keep growing feet as healthy as possible and an extensive range of new and best-selling styles to suit every taste. Styles feature breathable leather lining for all-day comfort, rip-tape adjustable fastenings for a child-friendly easy fit and scuff-resistant dyed-through leather, stitched with super-strong nylon thread.
My First School Shoes - Big Steps for Little Feet
A new category for Start-Rite, My First School Shoes presents popular styles in the smallest of sizes. Lightweight and flexible soles give natural and easy movement, so that comfort and reassurance are guaranteed for school starters embarking on their exciting adventure.
Stepping-Up Senior Styles
Start-Rite senior brands Rhino and Angry Angels are back with fresher, fashionable styles and Vegan choices. For girls, for those looking for something sturdier than the traditional Mary Jane and Brogue styles, new black leather and patent Chelsea boots and chunky soles with studded buckle straps enter the range. Boys' styles range from stylish lace-ups to sport-inspired shoes, with an engineered thread design for improved grip. Both collections have been designed with durability and comfort in mind.
New Air Rite Technology
Designed to know exactly where children’s feet get hot, Air Rite allows targeted airflow to support the body’s regulation system and help reduce sweating. Designed to cope with a variety of terrains and weather conditions, Air Rite technology stops water from getting in whilst allowing air to flow around the foot so feet keep fresh and comfortable for longer.
The Vegan Collection Expands
The Vegan collection, launched earlier this year, now boasts further styles and sizes including a Mary Jane style and range from primary up to senior age groups for girls and boys.
The synthetic upper textile mimics the characteristics of natural cowhide and the shoe is made using adhesives containing no animal content. Built to offer great durability, water-resistant, soft and lightweight.
Hallmark High Standards and Advanced Technology
Unrivalled technology is built into every Start-Rite school shoe. Informed by pioneering thermal foot analysis, to measuring forces and movements during play and activity, Start-Rite’s rugged, multi-width fitting shoes with added growing room designed into every pair, are guaranteed to stand up to the rigors of daily school life. Reassuring every parent they have made the right choice for their child’s feet, health, and comfort.
Rigorous Testing Guaranteed
Start-Rite raises the bar when it comes to testing prototypes. Ensuring shoes look just as good after 100,000 steps, that rip-tape fastenings remain ‘sticky’ after 5,000 openings.
Engineered for Children’s Feet
Start-Rite understands children’s feet perform differently as they grow. Shoe lasts made precisely for each stage of development ensure Start-Rite shoes are built so growing feet can move naturally.
Biomechanically engineered soles with bespoke flexibility designed for each growth stage include smart flexible toe area and footbeds that mirror the flex grooves on the soles, offering spring and breathability.
Fit and Ready for Action
For parents who want certainty on what size shoes to buy, getting a specialist fitting is ideal. Each of Start-Rite’s 360 independent high street retailers are expertly trained in fitting shoes and finding the perfect shape and fit for growing feet.
Getting the perfect fit at home is also easy with Start-Rite. Over 30,000 customers turned to Start-Rite for measuring at home advice during Spring 2020, with unprecedented requests for its innovative paper-measuring gauge which can be downloaded here: https://www.startriteshoes.com/measure-at-home.
Or for years of crucial service, purchase a solid small or large measuring gauge here https://www.startriteshoes.com/small-infant-measuring-gauge.
To see the Start-Rite’s full School Collection see here: https://www.startriteshoes.com/school-shoes
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About Start-Rite Shoes
A British family business for eight generations, Start-Rite Shoes has helped children explore in comfort and confidence for 229 years. Proudly specialist in little feet, every Start-Rite shoe is anchored in a deep understanding of the ways children live and move today.
With constant innovation at its core, the brand works with biomechanics experts to create shoes that not only support a child’s developmental needs but also their lifestyle needs.
Start-Rite shoes are designed to give children the freedom to go where they want, how they want.
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