About Womanshoe

Womanshoe is a small, independent archive of U.S. footwear safety recalls, built for women checking their own shoes, their children’s shoes and the boots they wear to work.

Why we built it

The Consumer Product Safety Commission publishes every recall as a separate notice. That works if you already know the product name. It works less well if you want to know whether the sandals in a hand-me-down bag were ever recalled, how often heels on women’s dress shoes have failed, or what “repair” means for a ski boot. Searching the official database for “heel” or “pump” also turns up heat pumps and wheels. We separate the footwear and put it in one place.

What is here

• 103 footwear recalls, 95 of them with a detailed page, including 19 that involve women’s sizes. See the archive.
• Hazard groups and trends computed from the same data.
• A women’s size converter based on the ISO 19407 approach.
• Guides on recall rules and sizing, each with its sources listed.

How we work

The recall data is read automatically from CPSC every night. Womanshoe is run by one independent publisher, who writes the plain-English notes, groupings and guides from official sources: CPSC notices, the Code of Federal Regulations, SaferProducts.gov and the relevant standards. We do not test products ourselves and we do not invent figures; every number on a recall page comes from the notice or is calculated from the archive. The full method is on data and methods.

Money

The site is paid for by Google ads. We do not sell shoes, use affiliate links or accept money, products or favors from brands and retailers, so we have no reason to soften or skip any recall.

Corrections

If a page is wrong or out of date, please contact us. Each report is checked against the official notice, and the page is corrected when the notice supports the change. Because every recall page is rebuilt from CPSC data each night, a fix to a grouping or a calculation reaches all affected pages at once.