Alegria Vs. Sketchers Shapeups

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alegria vs. sketchers shapeups

can anyone please help me narrow this down?

they need to be all white leather, i would prefer not clogs, im not a fan.

i have a skinny foot and high arch

If you have a low arch and a flatter and wider foot, the Work Skechers "XW" rockers might be exactly right. But I don't think they will be as good a fit for a higher arch and a long and narrow foot. I think that the regular Shape-Ups are too high and have stability problems. Alegrias have way too much molded arch for my feet, plus I want a laced shoe only, not anything else. And not a backless or strap-back clog.

Skechers http://www.skechers.com/style/76455/shape-ups-x-wear-slip-resistant-register/blk#Color=WHT "SKECHERS Shape-ups XW Slip Resistant" is a rocker but it's a low rocker and is really stable. XW means a lower rocker, and I'm not sure what else. The regular rockers are appreciably higher and feel more tippy, at least in a size 6. I tried on a pair of these Work XWs at the Skechers store tonight, and brought two pairs home. They are 100% stable, even hopping and running. No tipping or rolling. The rocker, at this low height, takes the stress off my plantar fascia, very nicely. I am a running shoe devotee' and I have been searching everywhere for a white leather running shoe in women's 5.5 -6, and these Skechers are about as close as I can get, since nobody makes a white leather running shoe anymore.

Nike Shox are rock hard and not shaped right for my foot. Way overrated, imo. Felt like a cheap Payless plastic shoe. Honestly.

Some more observations about these Work-series XD Skechers:

They run about 1/2 size smaller, so order 1/2 size larger than your shoe size.

They have a wide toe box, which I love.

The footbed is shaped much closer to a running shoe type of footbed that is any other white leather fitness shoe or Easy Spirit that I tried.

The insert that comes with these shoes is very well padded.

I have low arches, and the arch of these shoes is just perfect for me: Neither flat, nor too high.

The rocker, you really don't notice. If you deliberately rock all the way back on your heel, maybe, but these shoes are designed for less rock motion and more security. I'm not at all convinced that the rubber soles are any grippier, but they are flatter and lower than the regular Shape-Ups series.

Skechers also has a Tone-Ups line, copying the Reebok EasyTone type of sole and footbed. Unfortunately, all of them are mesh shoes in colors. There is no all-leather Tone-Up, not yet at least.

I can't find any all-leather Reebok EasyTones or whateverTones anymore, either. Lady Footlocker might have the only one, and a review of it said it was too narrow in the toe box and not designed right.

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http://www.skechers.com/style/13012/shape-ups-toners-accelerate-motivated/bksl#Color=WSL is a Tone-UP in white but it's synthetic not real leather.

http://www.skechers.com/style/76460/work-shape-ups-x-wear-slip-resistant-routine/wht#Color=WHT might be the white shoe I bought. (I got a black and a white.)

Skechers, until I tried these Shape-ups, have really not been a brand that I can wear. They always felt clunky and hard; lacked padding.

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I bought:

#76455 Shape-Ups XW Register (x-wear) slip-resistant "Register" model in both white and white colors

#12321 Shape-Ups XF Energy Blast was the pair that I got for half price at the Skechers outlet. Buy, get the second half price. The black Register was $85 there and the white Energy Blast was $80 there.

Both of those are the lower profile rocker.

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