I guess you get what you play for too: I have mostly ‘RAX’ brand cedar shoe trees for my shoe collection. I have a couple of shoes with lasted shoes trees, which are good quality and obviously do a very good job of keeping the shoe shape. The cedar trees (which are widely available on the interweb) with the double/duel bars do a reasonable job. Price has increased a lot over the last 12 months, mind! Good point about the shoe tree’s important job of straightening the sole…
Anthony Jones: Yeah, the generic shoe trees like RAX works fine in most cases, but of course lasted are better. Prices have indeed increased but to be honest, in most cases less than the actual cost for the retailers, especially due to high shipping cost from Asia in recent years it costs a lot more nowadays. This is about to go down, but instead we have inflation, so prices will would need to continue to go up.
I guess you get what you play for too: I have mostly ‘RAX’ brand cedar shoe trees for my shoe collection. I have a couple of shoes with lasted shoes trees, which are good quality and obviously do a very good job of keeping the shoe shape. The cedar trees (which are widely available on the interweb) with the double/duel bars do a reasonable job. Price has increased a lot over the last 12 months, mind! Good point about the shoe tree’s important job of straightening the sole…
Tony
Anthony Jones: Yeah, the generic shoe trees like RAX works fine in most cases, but of course lasted are better. Prices have indeed increased but to be honest, in most cases less than the actual cost for the retailers, especially due to high shipping cost from Asia in recent years it costs a lot more nowadays. This is about to go down, but instead we have inflation, so prices will would need to continue to go up.