How Can You Mend a Broken Heel
August 29, 2009 by gzpatton
Filed under Shoe Repair
If there were a spoof of the Bee Gees’ song, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, and it involved a broken heel, you’d probably spot “crazy glue” somewhere in the lyrics. That’s the quick fix for those days when changing your shoes is just not an option. Keep some powerful glue in your purse for emergencies like this one and your feet will thank you!
If your broken heel came detached at the base and nails are visible, coat them with the glue and slide them back into their places. If the heel just snapped, coat one piece with glue at the site of the break and do your best to re-attach them.
The long-term answer to a broken heel is to take both shoes to a shoe repair store. They can replace the heel block for you if it’s broken, or just re-attach it if it’s still in one piece. If a replacement is needed, you’ll have to have both shoes in the pair worked on simply because the new heel block is not likely to be a perfect match to the old one.
