I am baffled the Sketcher Shape-Up shoes exist and even more baffled that they’re flying off the shelves. They look like the shoes you wear when one leg is longer than the other. The reason I’m blogging about these on “Tall Tales” is because these shoes also look like platform shoes, which I (and other tall people) will never have to wear. Ok, it’s a stretch but I felt like writing about these so I’m manipulating it to fit my blog.
Julie Deardorff, a Chicago Tribune reporter, recently blogged about these hideous “Fitness shoes” and said that although they “contain an unstable sole which causes the muscles to work a little harder as they try to stabilize the body, … there’s little-if any—credible scientific evidence that these new fitness shoes provide a higher level of muscle engagement.”
So really, people are wearing these to get buff and beautiful and are not only NOT reaping the benefits, they’re also resorting to ugly footwear.
Is anyone out there really buying into these?
