Berry Styles is an online boutique offering a huge mix of shoes for children from infant to school age. The site carries some of the most popular brands of children’s shoes that moms are familiar with and also carries some really hip brands that are from overseas.
Take, for example, Tsukihoshi children’s shoes from Japan. I had never heard of this brand before seeing them on Berry Styles. If you are looking for unique shoes, Berry Styles definitely has this niche covered. When I was offered my choice of shoes to review from the Tsukioshi line, of course I was attracted to these Kaze Girls Sneakers in Brown with Pink Accents. ($51.99)
What makes Tsukihoshi shoes stand apart from the rest?
Tsukihoshi Kids Shoes features:
- Heel stablizer. Tsukihoshi counter stabilizer braces the foot around the arch and heel, helping to stablize the foot and provide a balanced landing.
- Extreme comfort, lightweight and flexible construction
- Arch support cup insole designed to promote the proper growth of a child’s foot
- Antibacterial Insole. Cup-Insole coated with Green-Tea Polyphenol that deodorizes the smell in shoes.
- Easy on & off with its hook & loop velcro fastener
- Machine Washable* (see below for care instructions)
Tsukihoshi’s Children Shoe technology is composed of 4 special features designed for children’s growing feet and to provide maximum comfort:
1- Children’s feet may tend to over-pronate (land on the arch side) when walking. As a result, children need more stability in their shoes. Tsukihoshi solid half sock board and a solid heel counter help to provide this stability in the heel area.
2- Like many parts of a child’s foot, the arch of a child’s foot is not yet fully formed. Tsukihoshi ”Molded Cup Insole” is designed for children’s arches while helping to neutralize foot odor.
3- Children’s feet can not bend and kick forward well because they are not yet fully developed. Tsukihoshi latest innovation, a “Flex-Joint Outsole” helps to allow children’s feet to bend along the line from the joint of the big toe to that of the little toe.
4- Excessive inward tilting towards the arches when walking and running is very common among children. Tsukihoshi ”Comfortable Shoe Last” provides space in the toe area to help keep the child’s toe in an unrestricted position, allowing them to splay on contact with the ground.
Tsukihoshi recommends ordering a half size in their shoes because they fit wider than normal. I ordered a size 7 and they fit my daughter perfectly now (she’s about a 6.5 not quite a 7 yet). They look adorable on, and reading about all the research that’s behind these shoes, I know my daughter’s feet are benefitting from Tsukihoshi’s attention to detail.
The shoes are also washable, which means we can hopefully wear them for quite awhile through this fall’s unstable weather (is it raining or snowing today?!)
Right now, Berry Styles is offering all readers in the US *and* Canada Free Shipping with their order by using this code: FFFB08 (expires Dec.15)
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