Etiquette when shopping for shoes: Most importantly, please be polite and courteous. If you are courteous and remember a few simple tips your can be sure your shoe shopping experience will be a pleasant and beneficial experience.
* Sales associates like to help customers who are pleasant. Therefore, if you want exceptional service be polite.
* If the sales associate is busy helping someone else, be patient and wait your turn, do not interrupt an associate while they are with another customer.
* Make sure you have clean freshly washed feet, no one wants to try on a pair of shoes after someone's dirty feet have been in them.
* Always, take your own nylon footies with you to be worn only while trying on the shoes or use the footies the store has when trying on shoes.
* Please, be courteous and place any unwanted shoes back in the box exactly as you found them and then return them to the appropriate place. Yes, that also means putting the tissue back in the toe of the shoe.
* Be sure to go shopping in the afternoon, your feet are smaller in the morning and tend to swell a little as the day goes on. If you go shoe shopping in the morning you could end up buying shoes that will not fit later in the day.
* If you are, buying sneakers or boots, it is wise to take socks that are the same thickness that you will be wearing with them. Also be sure and lace the sneakers up so you them up you can tell exactly how they will fit.
* Remember it is very important to try on both shoes and walk around a little bit to make sure they fit properly and do not hurt your feet. This is also helpful when trying on heels as it gives you a chance to make sure they are not too high and impossible for you to walk in.
* Find a mirror and look at yourself wearing the shoes, turn and look from all angles. It is important to like the way the shoes look on your feet and how they make your legs look.
* Do not buy a pair of shoes or boots just because someone else says they look great on you. I have done this a couple of times only to find that later I really did not like them. It is easy to smile and ignore when the sales person is trying to convince you how wonderful something looks on you. Nevertheless, be aware other customers like to give their input also. If you are undecided, do not buy them even if another customer says; "Those shoes look amazing on you!" Yes that may be their opinion yet the fact remains you are not sure and if you are not sure you probably won't wear them so it is best to save your money for that pair that you just have to have.