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This is THE question.
There are 3 main factors whose drive us to a particular high heel shoe instead of another one:
price
personal taste
quality
About the first two points is hard to give any suggestion. 400$ for a pair of shoes are too much for somebody and nothing for others.
What we can say is that a good shoe could not go under a certain price. Under that ( indicatively 30 € - 45$ but all is bounded to the kind of shoe you are looking) you are 100% secure that is a poor quality shoe.
This doesn't mean they don't look fantastic but, as per the 3rd point, all is bounded to the quality of craftmanship and of materials.
Lets analyze how :
A shoe is composed by
heel
sole
insole
lining
upper
accessories
The high heel usually is made of ABS (a sort of platic) and usually has some iron in it (to make it stronger).
In high heels we see painted and leather-covered heels.A covered heel usually is more expensive than a painted one because need more work and more attention to be mounted.
So, if you can and like it, choose always a leather-covered heel.
We have found a lot of materials to make the high heels soles but usually there are 3 sort of soles:
100% genuine leather soles, eco-leather soles (they are made of a mix of special resins and leather power), and synthetic sole, also called tunit.
This part is very very important in general for a normal shoe and is more important for an high heel shoe.
Like you skin...if foot doesn't breath, dressing an high heels will result in a bad experience: blisters, foul smell and damp feet.
A tunit sole also costs to the producer about half the price of a genuine leather sole and has less problems to be mounted (ie less cost to mount it).
So if you can choose always a 100% genuine leather sole.
Same topic for the insole and lining. Do you really would like your feet to be in a plastic bag?
We recently discussed with a vegan about that. We respect his ideas but are we sure that using oil products is more "green" that use animal parts? Points of view.
Last of the list are accessories.
They are not fundamental for the quality of shoe but could have a big weight for the shoe price.
For accessories we mean decorations, jewels...and so on. All that makes a shoe look better.
At a shoe fair we have seen 2 producers of accessories and we have seen some prices.
One accessorie costed 10 and another one 35. They looked like very very very similar.
I've asked why the difference in price to the 35 one and the answer was simple: one was made with swarovski and the other one with cheap chinese glass.
I've noticed the difference once I've seen them under the sun light. One (the swarovski one) was brillian like a diamond, the other one not.
So the question is: would you like to pay 10 coins for a false diamond? We don't think so.
This consideration could be made for all the accessories: bucklets, strasses and so on.
You pay the quality.
Last but not least is the design.
Projecting a shoe, making all the changes needed, making test and so on need time. And time have a cost. (capitalism rule LOL)
We have recently found 2 shoes that, at the 1st look, look like the same.
One is made by an American company (but friends who buyed those shoes has reported us they are probably made in china) the other one is made by an italian company.
Well...after an hard research we have found that the italian company produced it a lot of time (about 9 years) before the other company.
Is obvious that costs for the american/chinese company were a lot less than for the italian one.
You can't care of that but think about it when you buy an high heel.
If you buy a paint from an artist you don't mind to spend more than the costs of colors, fabric and so on. You pay for the idea, you pay for the concept.
Note: another friend has reported us that the American company has more that 50 styles thaose are too much similar to the italian one to be considered just coincidence.
At the end of this dissertion you probably will not have a clear idea what is the best shoe you can buy but you have the instruments to see if the 30$ you have spent are good spent or is better to spend a bit more and have something with a better quality.
Good luck for the reasearch of you bergain high heels! ;-)
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