Why? Why wouldn’t they? Dansko shoes are tough, stylish, hard-working, and cheap. I’ve been recommending shoes to hard-working professional for over a decade, and Dansko is a brand I keep finding myself coming back to.
If you want footwear that you’ll actually enjoy wearing at the end of a hard day’s work, then you’re pretty much in the right place. Unlike many other sorts of professional footwear, especially those for ‘hands-on’ employees, Dansko shoes aren’t embarrassing to be seen in, but still won’t give you blisters. This exceptional type of footwear is definitely a must-buy, especially for those who would want shoes that are not only comfortable to wear, but also chic and stylish.
Given the reputation they’ve built up over time, it’s not too surprising that Dansko is one of the world leaders when it comes to the production of clogs, boots, shoes, wedges, flats and sandals.
Since the company’s establishment back in 1990, Dansko has been dedicated in providing quality foot wear.
Owned and managed by the husband and wife tandem, Peter Kjellerup and Mandy Cabot, today they are suppliers to over 2500 retail outlets around the world.
The main reason why people flock to some specialty stores or check out websites for Dansko professional clogs is because of the big amount of discounts that they can get. Hard-working professionals know a good deal when they spot one, and given the competition between online retailers, heavy discounting occurs year-round.
The word ‘clog’ is a bit of an inelegant one, isn’t it? It makes you think of peasants toiling in fields. Well, regardless of the unsavoury background, Dansko professional clogs are actually some of the best value shoes I’ve suggested to people in over a decade of caring for others’ feet.
Since the early 16th century factory workers, peasants, farmers, miners and all sorts of laborers have worn clogs.
These days, I find myself recommending clogs to medical workers, archivists, librarians, and people working in the food and service industry. Why? The shoes are sturdy, comfortable, and have a good working life. That’s it. The fact they look great’s just a bonus!
Some of the clogs on sale include the Dansko Professional. A favorite among the Dansko clogs, this model is perfect for people who are busy and are always on the go.
There are no straps, shoe laces and buckles, so one can put this footwear on, fast and easily. It’s ideal for casual outings and is “formal” enough to be worn inside the office. You all know someone who refuses to care about ‘fashion’ and will disdainfully wear some glowing orange plastic monstrosity to the office. Awkward! Luckily, you can subtly enjoy the same level of comfort while keeping a professional appearance. The grin playing around your face may give the game away, though!
There’s a wide variety of colors to choose from, so you can pair clogs with almost any wardrobe.
Innovative designs and styles are also available. Just ask for the Dansko Professional Narrow, Python Patent, Wide, Aztec, Denim Fabric, Tapestry, and Dansko Professional Tooled. Patent designs in Leopard, Zebra and Tiger are also some of the top choice among fashionable picks.
For women who are always in vogue with fashion, the Dansko clogs sale includes ladies shoes that are made of other materials or those that have unique designs or patterns. Specific examples include, Dansko Sonja, Marcelle, Ingrid, Merrie Cabrio, Phoebe, Dansko Pavan and Dansko Sophia.
Men’s Dansko clogs are also on sale, some known models include, Dansko Karl, Dansko Tanner, Dansko Cooper, Carson, Cutter, Sawyer, Sloane, Dansko Sol, Teague and Dansko Tyler.
Discounts can significant on sale items. There are several design and styles available so customers have a wide variety of choices. As fashions come and go in the industry, Dansko obviously stay on top of those trends. If you’re not concerned with being at the bleeding edge of fashion, then second-hand Dansko shoes or the remainders of last years’ season often go a heavy discounts and are still perfectly excellent shoes.
So if you are looking for a shoe that is not only sleek but is also comfortable to wear, especially when you are always on the go, clogs are certainly the best alternative.
]]>We don’t recommend Dansko shoes for everyone, nor for every situation. Dansko are a brand that have built up a solid reputation, and for good reason, but that doesn’t mean that every one of your shoes should be Dansko shoes. Far from it.
Let’s think about what Dansko does well. Firstly, when you’re buying a Dansko shoe, whether it’s on sale or not, you’re getting bloody good value for money. I’ve owned a dozen pairs through my working life, and worn them inside, outside, over warehouse floors, while renovating my house, to an outdoor wedding (and yes, it did rain – galumphing mud over the reception hall’s floor was more fun than you’d have imagined!). They’re tough and long-lasting, all without looking scungy or cheap.
That’s not to say they’re suitable for all occasions. If you want to dominate a dance floor, then consider heels or another pair of shoes. Dansko shoes, even the ones not designed for work safety, are stupendously grippy. If you’re going to a job interview, you might want to glam it up a little. And if you’re in a situation where dress shoes are called for, then wear them.
Dansko shoes’ comfortability and ruggedness is a big plus in their favor, but sometimes you have to suck it up and wear something else.
We’ve all heard this one, right? You know what I’m talking about – you go out, shop, find a perfect pair of shoes, buy them, come home, and wear them into the ground. Then they’re gone… But if yo’d bought two pairs of shoes, you’d still have a perfectly fitting spare pair waiting for you!
When we’re talking about bespoke or leather shoes, then of course you should give your shoes a day or two off to rest and recover. Dansko shoes don’t need the kid glove treatment, but if you’re going to buy them while on sale, shouldn’t you use the money you’ve saved to get another pair, or a different color? Variety is the spice of life, after all!
So how can you make sure that you get access to Dansko shoes when they’re on sale? Dansko themselves rarely have significant sales from their homepage, so you’ll need to look for other large retailers. Subscribe to their mailing lists, and see what lands in your inbox. We regularly advertise discounted Dansko shoe sales when we find them, so bookmark this page and come back often.
What’s a reasonable amount to expect to save off Dansko shoes when they’re on sale? It actually varies depending on whether you’re after normal shoes, which change in fashion with each season, or something more practical like Dansko nursing shoes.
The shoe lines that are modified and updated with changing fashions get produced in smaller numbers, but then you can get great bargains at the end of season. Retailers only want to have the latest products in their warehouses, as back-orders for prior styles die off massively as time progresses. For that reason, you can often pick up perfectly nice pairs of Dansko shoes for around 50-60% off.
If you’re after something less affected by the whims of fashion, like sturdy Dansko working shoes, then the discounts you can find will be less, probably in the region of 25-45% off. Still, any amount of money is worth saving!
Good luck in finding the perfect shoes for you!
]]>With all of this, nurses are generally pretty wrecked by the end of each shift. Despite hospitals increasingly aware of how important it is to look after their nursing staff, nurses end up finishing each day tired, stressed and sore-footed.
While we can’t help you with the ‘tired and stressed’ part, we can make some suggestions about the ‘sore-footed’ element of working in Nursing. As any doctor, osteopath, massage therapist or podiatrist will tell you, comfortable footwear is vitally important to your well-being. Humans aren’t designed to stand on hard floors, and doing so in bad shoes is a killer. Your feet will be under enormous amounts of pressure and will feed that stress up your legs and into your spine and back.
Walking and working on sore feet isn’t fun either. So what can you do to make your life easier as a nurse? We’re big fan of the Dansko brand of shoes for nursing professionals. Let’s have a think about what you need.
Durability. Nursing shoes need to be durable. With hard wear and hard hours, nursing shoes are going to be put through their paces in just as tough a fashion as a workman’s boots or a balletist’s slippers. You want your shoes to be tough, to not wear or warp, and to not fall to pieces after the first few 12 hour shifts.
In our experience, Dansko shoes are some of the best in the world for durability. Designed form the ground up with hard work in mind, they’re resilient to sideways slippage, twisting, and abrasion. You can clean them easily if they need it, and ou don’t need to take a softly-softly approach, either. A good pair of Dansko nursing shoes will last you between 12 and 24 months of hard, near-daily use, and many pairs will last even long if you aren’t actively trying to demolish them every working day.
Comfort. Comfortably nursing shoes are bloody hard to come by. For some reason, most designers of women’s professional shoes seem to be unable to combine ‘good-looking’ with ‘not wanting to rip them of your feet at the end of a shift’. Luckily, Dansko nursing shoes are a step in the right direction.
With their sturdy, absorbent cushioning, Dansko shoes give a good amount of support to the heel and arch of the foot, while being soft enough to not stress the bones of the feet with the impact from walking.
The only area that some nurses have an issue with is at the foot of the shoe, if their toes are particularly long or like to curl over themselves, but both of these issues can be easily addressed with a length or two of tape or some band-aids to make everything nice and snug. To get the same level of comfort in other shoes normally requires going up an extra $100-150 per pair – and for that much extra, you might as well buy another pair of Dansko’s and still save yourself some money!
Safety. Working in nursing is a high-OH+S risk environment. Long working hours, dangerous machinery, and the potential for infection and the spreading of biological contaminants means that nurses need to be safe and steady in their work.
Dansko shoes are excellent in terms of stability, non-slippage, and resistance to both hazardous materials and being very cleanable. Nursing is a work environment where there is a high likelihood of liquids or other materials being spilled around one’s feet.
Having a sturdy non-slip grip helps avoid dangerous falls and accidents, but unlike many other safety shoes, the ‘sticky’ grip doesn’t impair normal walking – we’ve tried out all the Dansko nursing shoes, and only noticed an impediment when we’ve gotten carried away and tried to dance in them!
Dansko nursing shoes are made with a sturdy toe guard, but if your OH+S system requires it, you can get a steel toe-cap installed easily. Overall, we rate Dansko nursing shoes to be at the higher end of the safety spectrum when it comes to working shoes.
]]>Good professional attire has several different needs, and most manufacturers can only meet one or two of the criteria. You want your professional wear to look neat and smart at all times. It should be low maintenance and hard working, so that you’re not constantly polishing and straightening things, or paranoid about your appearance before an important meeting.
You also want to be comfortable. Ill-fitting clothes of any sort make you uncomfortable, give you an awkward posture and stop you from operating at your best. This is especially true of shoes. A badly fitted pair of shoes will give you back pain, sore feet, and probably make you walk with a wince and a scowl – not what we want at the office!
There are, obviously, hundreds of brands of shoes that ou can wear on a professional job. Some are great, others are less so. We’ve found that Dansko shoes are some of the best overall, and definitely the best in their price range. To find comparable shoes made from other companies in terms of long lasting, hard wearing, safe and comfortable shoes, you need to spend around $100-150 more a pair.
I don’t know how about you, but if I’m going to be spending more money on shoes, I’d rather get several pairs, or something to go out in!
Professional shoes should be durable. You’re spending long hours in them, and even if you’re chained to your desk for the most part, your professional working shoes are going to have the hardest and life out of your footwear ensemble.
They may not go through as tough a time as a workman’s steel-capped boots, but they’ll still take their fare share of scrapes and bumps. You want your shoes to be tough, to not wear or warp, and to not fall to pieces after the first few 12 hour shifts.
In our experience, Dansko shoes are some of the best in the world for durability. Designed form the ground up with hard work in mind, they’re resilient to sideways slippage, twisting, and abrasion. Even if you work in a standard office environment, spillages and dangerous hazards still occur.
And of course, if you’re intending on spending a reasonable amount of money on a pair of shoes, you want them to stay usable for a while. Most Dansko professional shoes last for 12-24 months of 5-times-a-week use, in our experience. Some will last longer, but we often retire ours to ‘padding around the house’ duty and treat ourselves to a newer pair.
Comfort is one of the other defining factors of a good pair of professional shoes. Comfortable professional shoes are bloody hard to come by, and what feels good in the store may not fel so good after your first three hours on your feet in front of a PowerPoint presentation.
For some reason, most designers of women’s professional shoes seem to be unable to combine ‘good-looking’ with ‘not wanting to rip them of your feet at the end of a shift’. Luckily, Dansko shoes are a step in the right direction.
They’re far more lightweight than other shoes of comparable comfort, meaning that your feet aren’t going to be as exhausted at the end of the day. You wouldn’t think that a small difference in weight would make such a large impact, but it really stacks up over time.
With their sturdy, absorbent cushioning, Dansko shoes give a good amount of support to the heel and arch of the foot, while being soft enough to not stress the bones of the feet with the impact from walking.
As for design, most of the Dansko shoes we’ve looked at or recommended to people haven’t had issues. If anything, the toe end of some Dansko shoes occasionally need a small amount of adjustment to get that ‘perfect fit’, but this is thirty seconds’ work with some tape or a few well-placed Band-Aids.
When you consider the variety in foot shapes and sizes, and that only a handful of women have had discomfort or a bad experience when trying on Dankso shoes, you’ll be as impressed as we were when we started looking at the brand and considering whether to recommend them.
So if your budget doesn’t stretch to hundreds and hundreds of dollars, but you want something stylish, durable, and comfortable, we suggest that Dansko is where it’s at. With their generous return policy if you’re ordering over the Internet, there’s not much stopping you!
]]>Of course, like anything, there are some tricks to buying the best discount Dansko shoes. It’s mostly common sense: think carefully about what you’re after, establish a budget, try some Dankso shoes on in person before you buy them (online or locally), see what discounts you can get, and buy more than one pair at the best price you can afford for them.
People buy Dansko shoes for specific reasons, and you’re no exception. I’ve been selling shoes for a while, and have picked out my favourite brands for those specific reasons. Obviously, I’m not going to tell you to buy Dansko if some Florsheims would suit you better!
So when do I recommend people go for Dansko shoes? Firstly, a lot of people come to be specifically asking for something from the Dansko range. They’ve either heard about it from word of mouth – which is the sign of an excellent product – or they’re coming back having been satisfied with a previous product.
With products as changeable and fashion-driven as shoes, it’s interesting as someone who deals with footwear for a living to see what brands build up loyalty over time. Dankso is certainly one of those brands!
We don’t recommend Dansko shoes for everyone, nor for every situation. Dansko are a brand that have built up a solid reputation, and for good reason, but that doesn’t mean that every one of your shoes should be Dansko shoes. Far from it.
Let’s look at what Dansko does well before we look into ways to get the shoes for a discount. Now it’s pretty clear that even if you’re paying full price for a pair of Dansko shoes, you’re getting pretty darn good value for money.
I’ve owned a dozen pairs in recent times, different styles, and worn them inside, outside, on stockroom floors, on dancefloors, and even while renovating my house. They weren’t so great on the dancefloor -I’d accidentally worn a pair with safely gripping soles, rendering my version of The Twist strictly a ‘knees-and-above’ affair – but everywhere else, they’ve become my go-to shoes.
They’re tough and long-lasting, and they aren’t going to fall apart on you at the first sign of stress. Going on an unexpected Friday Night Adventure? Elevator’s broken and you need to spend all day running up and down the stairs to Accounting? You won’t be grumbling at the end of it if you’re wearing properly fitted Dansko’s.
That’s not to say that you can’t still wear stilettos out – I’m the first to admit I love what they do to my figure, even if I often end an evening holding them. I actually keep a pair of Dansko flats tucked into my larger, gong-out handbag to act as an emergency backup!
That’s not to say they’re suitable for all occasions. If you want to dominate a dance floor, then consider heels or another pair of shoes. Dansko shoes, even the ones not designed for work safety, are stupendously grippy. If you’re going to a job interview, you might want to glam it up a little. And if you’re in a situation where dress shoes are called for, then wear them.
Dansko shoes’ comfortability and ruggedness is a big plus in their favor, but sometimes you have to suck it up and wear something else.
The Buy 2 Pairs Theory
We’ve all heard this one, right? You know what I’m talking about – you go out, shop, find a perfect pair of shoes, buy them, come home, and wear them into the ground. Then they’re gone… But if you’d bought two pairs of shoes, you’d still have a perfectly fitting spare pair waiting for you!
When we’re talking about bespoke or leather shoes, then of course you should give your shoes a day or two off to rest and recover. Dansko shoes don’t need the kid glove treatment, but if you’re going to buy them while on sale, shouldn’t you use the money you’ve saved to get another pair, or a different color? Variety is the spice of life, after all!
Finding the best discounts is the real challenge. Online retailers have far fewer overheads than brick-and-mortar stores, so online is where you need to go. Because there’s so much competition online, shoe retailers make good use of email newsletters, subscriber lists, and aggressive promotion. Try googling a few places that sell Dansko shoes and subscribing to their mailing lists.
Retailers aren’t stupid. They want to build loyalty to their brand, and one way they can encourage you to read through their newsletters is by offering discounts that you can’t get anywhere else.
You can also subscribe to online deal sites, but these are more of a shotgun, scattered approach. Even if some dansko shoes go on sale, they’ll almost always be the outlying, under-popular sizes and unfashionable styles. What you want are the ones that are the most popular, which are less likely to be shipped off to massive warehouse wholesalers.
I also regularly advertise discounted Dansko shoes when someone lets me know about them, so check back here on occasion.
What’s a reasonable amount to expect to save off Dansko shoes when they’re on sale? It actually varies depending on whether you’re after normal shoes, which change in fashion with each season, or something more practical like Dansko nursing shoes.
The shoe lines that are modified and updated with changing fashions get produced in smaller numbers, but then you can get great bargains at the end of season. Retailers only want to have the latest products in their warehouses, as back-orders for prior styles die off massively as time progresses. For that reason, you can often pick up perfectly nice pairs of Dansko shoes for around 50-60% off.
If you’re after something less affected by the whims of fashion, like sturdy Dansko working shoes, then the discounts you can find will be less, probably in the region of 25-45% off. Still, any amount of money is worth saving!
Good luck in finding the perfect shoes for you!
]]>Buying shoes online is a unique experience. You need to be fairly confident about the look you’re after, but you can achieve this by taking your time, thinking about what you already have that suits you, and so on. If you have the time or inclination, you can always visit some physical shoe stores and try on some shoes – something that shouldn’t prove to be too onerous!
If you find other brands or styles of shoes that you like, try them on as well. There’s no point in artificially limiting yourself. The more shoes you try, the more you’ll be clear about what you like. When you’re done, jump online and browse through some Dansko shoe catalogues.
I assume that I don’t need to convince you that buying Dansko shoes is the superior choice when it comes to most footwear situations. I mean, I could if necessary – heck, years of selling shoes means I could try and convince anyone of anything. But we both know why you’re here, right? Dankso is the best in their price range – with the nearest competitors a good $150-200 more expensive – in terms of longevity, ease of care, and pure comfort.
So you’ve done your research and decided on the styles that suit you best. You’ve kept notes on the designs, and if you’ve spotted some Dansko shoes you like in particular, you’ve got the catalogue or model numbers so you can track them down easily.
Winner! Then you’re ready to head online. I advertise some retailers here when they’ve got specials on, but my capacity to update the website’s a bit limited these days, so I might not have every bargain going. The website’s a great place to start, too, and I don’t charge a commission on any of my advice – it’s all free!
Guarantees and Refunds. This is where people get tripped up in online shopping more than anything else. Regardless of how good a shoe looks on a model, or how accurately you know your shoe size, or whether your foot is a narrow or wide fit, sometimes something bought online just won’t work.
Quality is rarely an issue. Dansko only let retailers with certain policies of quality management wholesale their shoes online, although of course resellers can source their shoes from any number of wholesale distributors.
Regardless, buying shoes without an ironclad return guarantee is not something that I’d advise. In my experiences in selling shoes of all varieties online, very few people have a negative experience overall, and most of those have from buying second-hand shoes from eBay or online second hand sales lists.
Online retailers value their reputation too much to try and rip you off over a dodgy product. If you order something that isn’t up to your standards, contact them about arranging a replacement or a refund.
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