Pointe shoe advice and troubleshooting. How to reduce the heel slipping off and improve support.
A full guide on how to sew the invisible elastic (covert elastic) loop onto your pointe shoes to secure the heel of your shoes.
We show you where to sew, explain why you might want to use this method and give some useful tips along the way.
Follow along with our step by step instructions, feel free to pause if you need to.
There are several methods to help secure and support the heel of a pointe shoe. This technique is very popular and is very discreet. You can use this without ribbons if you needed a way to put your pointe shoes on very quickly during a performance etc. But generally this method would be used along with ribbons. If you need any help sewing on ribbons you might want to check some of our other videos.
From the pointe shoe fitting team at That’s Entertainment Dancewear, Liverpool UK.
Time stamps:
8.54 sewing begins
11.27 sewing the second side
11.39 final placement of elastic is shown.