How can I make the bottom of my dress shoes get more grip?

Question

I bought some new Stacy Adams dress shoes and i am going to a party. The bottom of the shoes are not rubber, it is hard and smooth. My shoes slide too much when i walk and i dont want to slip on a hard floor. I heard hair spray will make it stickier and have more grip but i think it might make it more slippery. Is there a way to get more grip with this type of shoe?

Answer 1

Get a nail file or a piece of sandpaper and scuff the soles of the shoes, just scratch the heck out of them. Alternatively, you can put them on, find a rough patch of sidewalk and scrape them there.

I've done this many times for dress shoes (like for weddings when I've been a bridesmaid and had to walk down an aisle in brand new slippy-bottom shoes) and it works everytime.

Best!

Answer 2

Grip Tape For Shoes

Answer 3

Drug stores sell stickies that look like sand paper for the bottom of shoes (next to the inserts). Hairspray won't work for very long. When you have time you can take your shoes to get resoled (if you spend a lot of money on them), if not the stickies last for about as long as the shoe.

Answer 4

Find out what the soles are made of from the store you purchased them from. Most good dress shoes have leather soles which are slippery at first. I break in a pair of shoes by wearing them without walking in them. Just put them on and read or play on the computer a bit. You get fewer calluses. My most expensive shoes were designed not to slip on wet metal ship decks when I worked on freighters. I would not have liked to find out if I could swim in them.

Answer 5

All I can think of is putting on/cutting in some extra tread in the heel of the shoe... Though without damaging the shoe, I don't know. You could try the hair spray, but having sticky shoes and shoes with tread are two different things. Sorry I can't be of much help ><

Answer 6

I use to by the black rubber foam (usually whet with my shoe),the stuff you get in the craft part of the store. Cut out an area to match my shoe I would supper glue it on to the shoe or use shoe goo, gorilla glue even works. If your not hard on your shoes it usually last a while and works well. But make sure it's the rubber foam and not the other stuff.

Answer 7

DUCK TAPE!!!! no im just kidding, ask a shoe dept. store for advice, they make shoe soles can u replace the slick ones with another one with more grip? Wish i could help but call a shoe repair shop or call a professional shoe store, or heck, take em back and buy a new pair with better grip... but in the meantime, "dont slip and fall" lol

Answer 8

You can rub the bottom with sand paper but run the risk of scuffing the shoes. OR you can buy the rubber jar lid grippers at wal mart and cut out a peice small enough for the bottom and super glue those babies. Good luck!

Answer 9

There is a special grip tape that you can put on the bottom of shoes. For sure, they sell it at any DSW, but you might also want to try any convenient store..i think they are called sole stoppers.

Answer 10

Some people use alittle sand paper to roughen the soles up so they are not so slippery! Don't know if you want to do that with those shoes or not! Just a thought!