wearing orthotics/supportive insoles

amother ↓

Tue, Jan 26 2010, 1:12 am

ClaRivka wrote:

chocolate moose wrote:

Can you get walking shoes - not atheltic looking, but lace up ?

http://www.naturalizer.com/Sho.....05655

I'd wear this but he said they back is not substantial enough to have an orthotic and heel raises and whtvr.

2 things
first of all this may be your CUSTOM but is not against your religion. That is assuming we have the same religion because it's not against mine and I thought we were all Jewish here.
Yes I know many people don't wear sneakers in public but it's not a religious issue,
You can call it a chumra maybe but not halacha!

second, my mashpia is one of the most Frum, Chassidishe and tznius women I know and would ordinarily never wear open toe shoes because of tznius. I noticed once that she was wearing them and wondered about it, considering how tznius she was but of course I would never dream of judging her.
Anyway we were discussing our respective feet issues one day and she mentioned she has no choice but to wear open toe because of the issues she has with her feet.

The moral is you need to use common sense. The Torah was give "to live by" and your health comes before something like this which isn't even a halacha by anybody's standards.
I'm Lubavitch, I know there are many in Lubavitch that don't wear sneakers too but c'mon...be sensible
I have to wear sneaker like shoes because if I don't my feet hurt. No one would expect me to go around for the rest of my life in pain because of a chumra. Even if it were halacha I'm sure a Rov would give a heter in such cases.

(btw I don't even a consider it a chumra I'm just using the word loosely. It's just a mode of dress in some communities that certain groups have taken upon themselves.)

↑ amother

Tue, Jan 26 2010, 2:10 am

amother wrote:

first time I hear in my life that trainers are not tzinues,could anyone explain,what is the attarction in it for men?????????

I'm the amother above you.
It's a bit hard for me to understand myself but it's not so much a tznius concept as a chukos hagoyim concept.
someone once tried explaining to me that it's a commoner type of clothing, not befitting a bas melech.
either way, I'm sure any Rov of a community that holds this way would be lenient with a women who has issues with her feet.
I've seen plenty of women from communities that hold that way wearing sneakers or walking shoes and it's obvious they are wearing it for comfort/pain relief.
Can't she get maybe black ones that are more like shoes? There must be ways around this.