Yeah I've ran thru muck boots, soft flexible sole and currently hard sole walmart tennis shoe.. and they're looking baf after the recent water exposure, even tho my feet stayed dry I know they won't last much longer.
I really don't want to drop $100--150 or more for shoes or boots because it just feels unnecessary, and like Redwing is overkill for a 115lb woman who works at an indoor weed facility either standing stationary plucking leaves off plants, or going at a much faster pace to harvest, reset a room and transplant baby plants. I'm not out in the field anymore, but unless I'm defoling I'm on my feet 90% of the time and some rooms are wet.
But this reset reminded me how badly it kills my back and hamstrings with stretching out on my tippy toes to reach across tables. I laid in bed all Saturday and feel like I'm low key limping and began to wonder what shoes can handle getting wet 8-10hrs a day and save me from future knee and back surgery, without hitting muck boot territory because I need some flexibility and support for moving quickly when required, and having shoes too hard or too soft kill the arches of the feet and slow me down the next day. Are orthopedic inserts really worth it and I can stuff them in ANY shoe?
A lot of the suggestions from people who are nurses or lab workers suggestions feel... well the high heel platform of foam cannot be safe for fast paced slippery enviorments... Crocks have holes in them by design and I hate unnecessarily getting wet even tho half the crew wears them. Please don't come at me for wanting my shoes to not make me look like a living Bratz doll where my feet are disproportional to the rest of my body 🙃. Please don't with crocks, as a ND the idea of working with wet socks is literally torture.
Idk if actual boots are good either, we work in hot humid enviorments so maybe there's an orthopedic shoe for work? I was kinda looking for a whole unit because I know they'll get disposed of after 6mos or a year depending how badly in shape they are