why do kids shoes cost the same as adults?

Question

When you buy smaller clothes they are cheaper then bigger ones so why not the same for kids shoes?

Answer 1

maybe material, maybe the effort in producing these items

i am not sure, but it has to do with the demands

Answer 2

It's the old phrase so familiar in a capitalist economy such as ours: "Whatever the market will bear." Manufacturers know that you want your kid(s) to look just as "with-it", and "cool", and "hip" as all the other kids. And they also know that your kids want to look just as up-to-date fashionably as the other kids, so they'll come home and tell you what some other kid is wearing, and will ask and beg and plea and whine and throw temper tantrums just to get you to buy them the same or better shoes. And they also know you won't be able to tolerate your kid(s) ongoing, night-marish beggings for the new shoes, so, instead of being firm with your kid(s) and saying "no" to that rediculously expensive pair of shoes that he or she will wear out or outgrow in a matter of months, you'll actually go lay out the money necessary to make your kid(s) fashionable, and quieter around home, even if just for the moment, even if you have to go take out a loan to buy the shoes. So, they figure if you're stupid enough to lay out the money, they're smart enough to charge it, and they're doing damn good by it all, as things look now. So, saying no is, again, the way to bring prices down. They can't sell it at those prices if you don't buy it at those prices. It's also called FREE enterprise. You call the shots. God Bless you.

Answer 3

I dont know if this is the answer but after thinking about it and seeing how things are made on TV it seems to me that kids clothes can be made with the same machines as adults. The fabric is just cut smaller. But with shoes, they would need different equipment and machines than adults to accomodate the smaller size. Just a guess.

Answer 4

Actuall the infants is much cheaper and the reason why its the same is because people where diff shoe sizes for example an adult may were size 5 in kids it could happen hope i answered ur question

Answer 5

the reason why kids shoes cost the same as adults is because the shoe companies take advangtage of the fact that there are adults out there who must have name brand everything, regardless of the prices. since kids grow out of their shoes so quickly and the prices are so high, that's why i buy my son's shoes at discount stores. he will outgrow them faster than he can wear them out, so why pay for name brand?

Answer 6

It depends on the shoe. If you're buying the kind of "kids' shoes" that I wore as a kid (so did Cyrus, by the way) then they DO NOT cost as much as adults' dress shoes. My mother always bought me the cheap canvas shoes (you know like the Keds, Converse, & Ropers wannabes) while she wore nice leather shoes. In the summer Daphne & I wore flip-flops & jellies & from the pictures I've seen, it looks like Cyrus & Darius were barefoot 95% of the time when school was out. Right now I'm still living at home & I'm lucky if I get 1 pair of shoes per year, like the canvas slip-ons in blue plaid I got right now. Cyrus, the love of my life, is wearing holes in those black Chuck Taylors he got 2 years ago!

At any rate, I think you're definently paying too much if you exceed $10 because that is what my last pair of shoes cost. Think about it, if they wear the shoes for about 18 mos. & they cost like $9.99, then you're only paying A PENNY A WEEK for them to have shoes!!! Wow! Think of how small that is in comparison to the cost of gas & everything else! Now what is your complaint again?

Answer 7

Amen, Iris! Why would anybody buy the shoes for a growing kid if they DID cost an arm & a leg? My parents certainly didn't & they still don't! I gotta buy my own shoes, which is why they're so old right now, so if $8 dollar immitation Converse (Wal-Mart brand) are good enough for me & my lil bro, WHY SHOULD THIS LADY'S KIDS BE ANY BETTER? I guess it's like the cold thing too -- maybe her kids are too good to get colds like we did as kids so she wants to homeschool 'em so nobody can call them names like SNOTFACE, BOOGERBRAIN, PHLEGMBAG, COUGHER, FEVERHEAD, FLUBOY/FLUGIRL (they'd call us CYRUS the VIRUS & IRIS the VIRUS when we were sick). Lady, just tell your kids that SHOES DON'T MAKE THE MAN & buy cheap ones!!!

Answer 8

Only a idiot would pay exorbitant prices for brand name footwear for kids considering how quick their feet grow. You know what they say " a fool and his money are soon parted!"

Answer 9

i agree with you in the sense that if they are to be made out of similar materials and they are obviously using less, the should cost cheaper. i would start a petition and get it started. i would sign up!

Answer 10

maybe because the demand is constant...