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I have been hearing and reading a lot lately about shoes coming apart more easily than they used to (same brand / model). I was surprised to hear that two brands that I have a lot of experience with (Keen hiking boots and Alpinestar motorcycle boots) have had adhesive quality issues on newer pairs when I've put many years and miles on the same models in the past. Is there a general trend across the industry in this area? Was some chemical banned that makes new adhesives used in shoe manufacturing less effective?

Hi everyone, I honestly don’t know what to do anymore. Since a few weeks I have this issue in literally all my shoes. The final horizontal lace, not the one with the loop but the last horizontal lace just below, of all my shoes cut right into the top of my foot at the place where my foot like meets my leg. It’s not a sharp pain, but more of a bruised pain. I cannot see any swelling or redness also not after a walk for example. It also only happens in my right foot. My left foot I can just tie and be done. The only thing that kind of fixes it is to tie the most upper lace extremely loose to the point it doesn’t really have a function anymore. Even when I can still put 2 fingers comfortably on top under the lace where it hurts my foot it does still hurt and it’s still too “tight”. And when I ask someone else to put like their finger under there like under the tongue they say it’s loose on top of my feet. Skipping the final lace doesn’t help either since I’m not only getting heel slip, but also it feels bruised anyway.