How to Adjust Your Chaco Straps

This entry was posted on June 10, 2014 by coolshoesAdmin.
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If you’ve just purchased your first pair of Chaco sandals (or maybe your third!), you may be wondering how to adjust the straps to fit your feet “just right.”
Correctly adjusted straps are actually just as important as finding the correct size. If you already own a pair of Chaco and don’t find them as comfortable as you had hoped, the problem may just be in the strap adjustment rather than the shoe itself.
Good news! Here’s our handy-dandy guide on how to adjust the straps on the most popular Chaco styles. The steps vary slightly depending if your style has a toe-loop or not. We’ve listed the steps in bullet points, but if you’re more of a “visual learner” check out the videos from Brandon with Chaco at the end of the end of each step-by-step.

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​For styles WITHOUT the toe loop

You first want to open the straps up as wide as possible so you can get your foot into the shoe. To do so:

• Start at the buckle on the outside of the foot & open the buckle.
• Loosen the buckle strap by tugging the outside portion of the strap
• Open the strap that goes across the top of the foot near your toes by tugging the outside.
• Place your foot in the shoe.
• Pull heel-strap around heel.

To tighten:

• Start with the top strap and tug from the inside of your foot until you reach a comfortable snugness.
• Tighten the buckle strap from the inside until it fits snugly.
• Close the buckle strap & VOILA! A perfect fit.

For styles WITH the toe loop

For the most part the instructions are the same; you just have one extra strap to adjust on these styles.
Again, you’ll want to open the straps up as wide as possible so you can get your foot into the shoe. To do so:

• Follow the first three steps above, starting on the outside of the foot.
• Then loosen the toe loop on the same side you’ve been pulling from (outside)
• Next loosen the “toe knuckle” (or mid-foot) strap that crosses your foot at a diagonal.
• Place your foot in the shoe
• Pull heel-strap around heel.

To tighten:

• Start with the “knuckle” of your big toe, pull up on the inside of the strap.
• Tighten the toe loop.
• Tighten the buckle strap from the inside until it fits snugly.
• Close the buckle & you have now correctly adjusted your sandals!

A good way to remember the toe-loop style adjustment process is: “Knuckle, Toe, Buckle”. And then perhaps, chuckle.

Remember, if you take your Chaco sandals on and off by undoing the buckle instead of yanking them off, you are more likely to keep the straps adjusted the right way. This means you only have to go through this process once. Whew!
This entry was posted in Chaco on June 10, 2014 by coolshoesAdmin.