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Soft Shoes Poodle Socks Hard Shoes Men & Boy's Accessories    About Irish Dance Shoes: 
Soft Shoes: Worn by females - they are often called Ghillies, Pumps, or Soft Shoes and are constructed of very soft kid leather - similar to ballet shoes in texture. Their laces crisscross across the top of the feet and are tied up either around the ankle or under the arch of the foot. These shoes are to be worn extremely tight fitted on the foot, which enhances the dancers arch and also toes when she is performing. A good way to test the fitting of your shoe is to point your toes, when you have the shoe properly laced up. If you see a gap at the tip of your toes whilst your foot is pointed --- then the shoe is too big. When the shoe is too big the dancer's point does not look as strong and accentuated ---- this could loose the dancer valuable points whilst competing.
 Irish Dance Hard Shoes: Often called Jig Shoes, Heavy Shoes, Hard Shoes and they are the used to create the beautiful rhythmical percussions of Irish Dancing. examples
These shoes are unique to Irish Dancing. They are made of black leather with fiberglass heels and tips on the toe of the shoes. There is no metal tips in traditional Irish dancing. The shoes come with a leather strap across the top of the foot - which keeps the shoe firm on your foot whilst dancing.
Hard shoes should also be firm fitting in length and width, this will prevent your foot from sliding around inside the shoe and causing blisters and also preventing you from falling down inside the shoe - when and if you are able to do toe-stands.
Men & Boy's Reel Shoes: these are simply called reel shoes and they look much like a jazz shoe except they have an Irish dance heel which allows the male dancer to perform clicks throughout their soft shoe dances. Unlike the females soft shoe, the sole of this shoe is very flexible which enables males dancer to produce magnificant clicking sounds whilst performing their soft shoes dances i.e: trebles and shuffles.
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