Can you wear Vibram Five Fingers if you have morton’s toe? That’s what I’m going to find out.
I recently purchased a pair of Vibram Five Finger shoes. I’m a little late on this bandwagon – Tim Ferriss wrote about the in May of 2009, my good friend Dream has had them for about 8 or 9 months, and we both heard about them from Tynan who wrote about them in June of 2008.
I was a little skeptical of buying them because I have really fucked up feet.
To start off I have morton’s toe – My index toe is probably a little less than 1/4 an inch longer than my big toe.
- Morton’s Toe (via whitneybee on flickr)
Next on the list is I have extremely wide feet and must always get special shoes that have extra width.
Finally, my pinky toe is almost a 3/4 an inch shorter than my 4th toe.
I recently read though that the CEO of Vibram has Morton’s Toe and their solution (for now) is to just measure your by your longest toe.
I found a place that sold them about 35 minutes away, TravelCountry.com so I drove out there and got fitted.
My foot was just over the 41 size line with my morton’s toe, I thought about getting the 42 but I went with the 41 because the 42 was out of stock and I figured it will stretch. Plus, Travel Country has a 30 day return policy so if they don’t work out I can return them, which was one of my concerns before buying online.
I thought about getting the KSOs because they stay on in water, but instead went with the Classic’s because they seemed more practical, if I do go traveling I’ll probably pick up the KSOs though.
- Classic’s
They feel very snug. It is a little tight on my index toe because it is longer than the rest but all of the others fit pretty well, even my abnormally small pinky toe.
So far I have no blisters which seem to be a problem when they are too loose or too tight. It took me some time to get the sizing right, but now they work just fine. My recommendation? Check them out, but make sure you can try them on first.
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