The foot 🦶🏼 is an anatomical and functional unit made up of 26 bones, 33 joints, 22 muscles and 107 ligaments, designed to bear the body's weight and to walk, and it has evolved over more than 2 million years.
👩🏻⚕️ Feroz lasts are developed using podiatric criteria: they're straight and mimic the dimensions and shape of a human foot. Thanks to this design, all our shoes respect the shape of the foot as closely as possible, and our sizing evolves in line with its growth pattern.
A shoe should adapt to the shape of the person wearing it, not the other way round. Every species knows this:
Why does the shape of the last matter so much?
The last is the mould the shoe is built on: it defines the space the foot will have inside. If it's narrow or pointed, it squeezes the toes and limits their movement; if it respects the natural width of the forefoot, it lets the toes spread and rest on the ground just as they would barefoot.
In childhood this matters even more, because the foot is still forming: many of its bones are still cartilage and are shaped by what the child wears. A shoe built on a barefoot last goes along with that growth instead of constraining it.
Keys to understanding straight lasts
- ✅ The last is the mould in which your little one's foot will grow.
- ✅ Straight lasts can be pointed, round, square… it isn't a feature that can stand on its own.
- ✅ It's impossible to tell what kind of last a shoe has by looking at it from above or from the sole: you'd need the last itself or, at the very least, to examine the inner insole. 🔎
That's why, rather than focusing on whether the toe is round or square, what matters is that the shoe leaves real room for the toes and respects the axis of the foot. That's the philosophy behind every Feroz model.
@roberpascual, the straight-last guru 🤣❤️ and a great paediatric podiatrist with more than 21 years' experience, is with us on this journey. 🥰
