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How to Know When It's Time to Replace Walking and Work Shoes You usually know it is time to replace walking or work shoes when they look worn in the places that matter (the tread, the midsole and the upper) or when they simply stop feeling the way they used to, even if they still look fine from across the room. There is no universal mileage or month count that applies to every shoe and every person, so the practical answer is a short set of checks you can run yourself. This guide walks through them. Walking and work shoes...

VDBGift Guide: How to Buy Shoes for Someone Else Without Guessing Their Fit The safest way to buy shoes as a gift is to avoid guessing: find out the recipient's real size and width from a pair they already wear, choose a style based on how they will use the shoe rather than how it looks, and make sure there is an easy way to swap it if the fit is off. If you cannot confirm any of that, a gift card or a fitting appointment is often the better present. This guide shows how to decide. Shoes are one...

New Balance walking shoes and running shoes are built for different movement patterns, so the better choice depends on what you actually do most: if you mainly walk, a walking-specific or comfort-oriented shoe is often a sensible starting point, and if you run regularly, a running shoe is built with that in mind. The overlap is real, though, and many people walk in running shoes and the reverse. This guide helps you decide by activity, fit and feel, not by a health claim. Shoe categories can be confusing in a store or online. Names, numbers and technology terms vary by...

The best shoes for holiday travel are usually the pair you can walk in comfortably for hours, slip off and on at security without fuss, wear with your thickest and thinnest socks, and still fit into a bag without eating half your luggage. No single shoe wins every category, so the practical goal is a short checklist you can run before you pack. This guide gives you that checklist. Holiday trips tend to stack up the demands on your feet: long terminal walks, standing in lines, cold curbs, wet parking lots, a family dinner that calls for something nicer, and...

The most comfortable dress shoes for fall events are the ones that fit your feet first, with arch support, a wide toe box, and shock-absorbing soles built into the shoe from day one, not something you hope breaks in later. At Van Dyke & Bacon Shoes, we have fitted Baltimore-area customers for dress shoes since 1938, and the pattern we see over and over is this: people buy dress shoes a half-size too small, in a width too narrow, then wonder why their feet hurt two hours into a wedding reception. Fall brings a packed calendar, work conferences, autumn weddings, holiday...