Guides
Choosing your shoes
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The Best Dance Shoes for Beginners: How to Start
What to buy for your first pair of dance shoes — the right heel, practice shoes, matching your style, getting the fit...
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Ballroom vs Latin Dance Shoes: How to Choose the Right Pair
Ballroom (Standard) and Latin dance shoes are built for different jobs. Here’s how the heel, sole, flexibility and fit differ — and...
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The Best Ballroom Dance Shoes: Our Picks by Dancer
The best women’s and men’s Standard/Smooth ballroom shoes for beginners, value, competition and wide feet, recommended by the Wedance fitting team in...
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The Best Latin Dance Shoes: Our Picks by Dancer
How we recommend Latin and salsa dance shoes — the best options for beginners, value, competition and wide feet — from a...
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The Best Argentine Tango Shoes: How to Choose
How to choose Argentine tango shoes — the best options for beginners, comfort, wide feet, and open vs closed toe — from...
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Salsa & Bachata Dance Shoes: How to Choose
How to choose salsa and bachata dance shoes for social dancing — comfort, heel height, straps, beginners and wide feet — from...
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The Best Dance Shoes for Men: Ballroom & Latin
How to choose men’s dance shoes — the best options for ballroom, Latin, value and wider feet, plus heel and sizing tips,...
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Kids’ First Dance Shoes: A Parent’s Guide
How to choose a child’s first dance shoes — secure straps, flexible soles, sizing for growing feet, ballroom vs Latin and wide...
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Wedding & First-Dance Shoes: A Comfort-First Guide
How to choose wedding and first-dance shoes — comfort, heel height you can actually dance in, breaking them in, and getting fitted...
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Practice Dance Shoes: When & Why to Choose Them
What practice dance shoes are, when to choose them over performance shoes, practice vs performance, and how to get the fit right...
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Fit & sizing
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Dance Shoe Sizing & Fit: How to Get the Right Size
Dance shoes aren’t sized like street shoes. How dance-shoe sizing works (UK/EU/US), how snug is right, how brands differ, and how to...
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Dance Shoe Size Chart: UK, EU, US & CM Conversion
Convert dance-shoe sizes between UK, EU, US and centimetres, with women’s and men’s charts, how to measure your foot, and how Aida,...
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Dance Shoes for Bunions & Foot Problems
The best dance shoes for bunions, wide or narrow feet and high insteps — what to look for and how an in-person...
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How to Break In & Stretch Dance Shoes
How to break in new dance shoes safely — how leather and satin ease in, stretching tight spots, why pain is not...
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Dance Shoe Heel Heights Explained: Choosing the Right Heel
A plain-language guide to dance-shoe heel heights and shapes — flat, Cuban, slim, flare — and how to choose by dance style...
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Materials & care
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Suede vs Leather Soles: Which Dance Shoe Sole to Choose
Suede vs leather dance-shoe soles — how each behaves on the floor, which to choose for ballroom, Latin and social dancing, and...
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Satin vs Leather Dance Shoes: Which Upper to Choose
Satin vs leather dance-shoe uppers — how each looks, feels and lasts, which to choose for performance, practice or problem feet, and...
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How to Clean & Care for Dance Shoes (Satin & Suede)
How to clean and care for dance shoes — brushing suede soles, cleaning satin and leather, keeping them fresh, storage, heel protectors...
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Brand guides
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AIDA vs BD Dance: Which Brand Should You Buy?
Aida vs BD Dance — an honest head-to-head on fit, price and who each brand suits, from a Canadian retailer that fits...
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AIDA Dance Shoes: Brand Guide, Fit & Sizing
What Aida dance shoes are known for, who they suit and how they fit — plus Aida vs BD Dance and where...
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BD Dance Shoes: Brand Guide, Fit & Sizing
What BD Dance shoes are known for, who they suit and how they fit — plus BD Dance vs Aida and where...
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International Dance Shoes (IDS): Brand Guide, Fit & Widths
International Dance Shoes (IDS) — the UK brand known for multiple width fittings and hard-to-fit feet: who it suits, how it fits,...
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Freed of London: Brand Guide for Dancers
Freed of London — the historic British dance-shoe maker: what it is known for, who it suits, how it fits (UK sizing),...
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