Long answer short - barefoot shoes are not necessarily custom- size shoes.
Custom shoes are designed by measuring your foot independently and designing a shoe around that shape.
Barefoot shoes on the other hand are not designed to your custom size, but they are manufactured keeping in mind the healthy human foot physiology.
What does that mean?
It means a wide toe box for our toes to splay, a flat sole, a thin sole, for our foot nerves to actually sense the ground, no added cushion, because our feet muscles need to work to stay healthy, and extremely lightweight, so they don’t come in the way of natural movement.
Custom shoes would be a perfect solution for people with naturally great feet, but most of us, having worn regular shoes for long durations have lost our natural foot shape.
Most of us have a big toe that is skewed towards our other toes, an arch that is flattening because it is weak, and bunions on the inside and outside of our foot.
Barefoot shoes give you the ability to actually correct these deformities over time and allow you to grow into a new, better foot shape.
So while custom shoes may seem like a “better” alternative, barefoot shoes are a great way to move around, train and run in, while continuing to work on your foot muscles to reverse years of damage that traditional shoes have done.
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