Dental floss pointe shoes Videos

This is very helpful but you are sewing where the draw string goes. If you ever need to tighten your shoe you can't because you sewed the draw string.

How do you break in your pointe shoes

One may also try heel grippers, in addition to elastics.

Omg I have a really bad problem with this!!!!!! so i wear Bloch Heritage-Medium shank. I had this heel problem with my previous pair of pointe shoes, so i got thick elastics which i sewed on to my current pointe shoes. Mind you, i sewed on a pair of elastics criss crossed on each shoe. I made sure the elastic was really far back, like as far back as you demonstrated here, and i sewed it on with dental floss, with double stitches. The elastics were pretty tight and well fitted. I felt more support and all, but the heel still slips off DESPITE ALL OF THAT. I even tried putting rosin on the heel on my tights during class, which worked for a while, but my tights got dirty quickly. I even got a spray bottle filled with water and i tried spraying the back of my heel so the fabric would stick to my tights and not slip off. That didnt work. And I dont plan on trying hairspray, i dont want to ruin my tights. what should I do now? Nothing seems to be working!!! It's definitely not the fit of the shoe, but apparently my heel is like realllly narrow. Please help me!!!!

@xWathy I'm probably late, but for mine, I put something called "mole skin" on them. I bought the Dr. Scholl's kind. I traced the box/top of the shoe and then made a little rectangle on one side. Peel the paper off so the sticky side is there, then stick it onto the box. The rectangle part you drew should be stuck on the bottom side, with the leather sole. If you get a good quality brand (I'm not sure if there is Dr.Scholl's in Germany) of mole skin it should last for a very long time.

That's a strange way to do it! I'm just a thorn in your side today, sorry! I remember being told that you only need elastic on your shoes if they're not fitted properly. I'm not sure if that's true, but it has become a fashion. Sewing your ribbon to the outside of the shoe would not be accepted in most companies! BIG thing is sewing elastic at the back of the shoe is a major cause of Achilles tendinitis, if you need the elastic -sew at the back with a gap between to avoid aggravating the tendon

You don't have to but I sew my pointe shoes with dental floss because it's stronger than thread, it's cheap, and it's easy to keep your needles in the little container :)