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    Shoe trees are inserts that you place into a shoe in order to ensure they maintain their shape when you’re not wearing them. When you own a stylish pair of leather dress shoes or a great pair of boots, you want to keep them in top shape for as long as possible. Keeping footwear stored with shoe trees prevents creasing and can keep your shoes looking great while they’re waiting for their next outing.


    Shoe trees made from certain materials reduce moisture, which often leads to breaking down the shoe's lining. Keeping the shoe's interior dry not only preserves your footwear, it can help keep them fresh for when you’re ready to wear them again.


    Shoe trees can also help break in new shoes. Placing shoe trees into freshly purchased footwear can stretch them out a bit, so they'll be a bit more comfy when you first wear them around town.

    Shoe trees come in a variety of styles, from simple toe and heel-shaped blocks, separated with an extendable rod, to full blocks that are hand carved to take the shape of a foot. Each style has its own benefits. Fully formed shoe trees are often best at holding a shoe's shape, while a style with separate toe and heel components tends to cost less.


    Advanced style shoe trees contain adjustable components, which allow you to extend the length and adjust the width of the toes to better fill out your shoes.


    Shoe trees for boots also contain a vertical component that helps to fill out the leg of taller boots. As with their counterparts, you can find boot trees fully formed into the shape of a foot, as well as the ankle and lower leg to give footwear like cowboy boots a good form-holding opportunity. There are lower-profile styles of boot trees suitable for footwear like hiking boots and chukkas as well.

    You can find shoe trees in any number of materials. Plastic shoe trees are carved from wood and contain a lustrous veneer. Unfinished, raw woods, like cedar shoe trees, can help fend off moisture and keep your footwear smelling fresh as new between wears.