Livie & Luca Carta and "Cotton" Children’s Shoes

What went wrong

The notice saysA metal thread inside the interior shoe liner can loosen and poke through the shoe lining, posing a laceration hazard to the user.

Cut hazards in footwear almost always come from metal parts: thread, wire, studs, rivets or trim. They tend to show up after some wear, when linings thin out or edges lift. A quick run of your fingers along the inside of the shoe will often reveal the problem the notice describes.

How to tell if your pair is affected

Product description in the noticeThe recalled Livie & Luca children’s shoes include two styles: Carta and Cotton. The Carta style Mary Jane shoes are canvas, solid color shoes stitched to a tan sole with a fabric strap and a brown wooden button. The Carta shoes are blue, fuchsia or gray. The Cotton style Mary Jane canvas shoes have a stitched tan rubber sole and a colored fabric strap with a dandelion printed on a pink square button and a gingham or polka-dot cotton interior lining. The cotton shoes are yellow, green or red. Both the Carta and the Cotton style shoes were sold in toddler sizes 4 through 13. Only shoes with date codes 06 2013 through 12 2013 (Month Year) printed on the insole of the shoe are included in the recall. The Livie & Luca logo is printed on the inside of the shoe.

The notice gives no style numbers or barcodes, so you match on what it does give: the brand and style (Carta and "Cotton" Children’s Shoes), the sizes (toddler sizes 4 through 13), the sale period (January 2014 to March 2014), the store (Zappos) and the “made in” label (Mexico). If a detail does not line up, the recall contact below can confirm.

What the notice tells you to do

RemedyConsumers should immediately take these shoes away from children and contact the retailer where purchased for instructions on receiving a store credit or replacement. If purchased through Livie & Luca’s online, contact the firm for instructions on receiving a store credit for a free replacement pair of shoes with prepaid shipping before disposing of the shoes.

Recall contact, as printed in the notice: Livie & Luca toll-free at (888) 548-5822 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PT Monday through Friday, email [email protected] or online at www.livieandluca.com and click on the "Recall" tab on the top of the website for more information.

The recall is 12 years old, and the last pairs were sold about 12 years ago. A child who wore these at the time has long outgrown them, yet shoes like these keep circulating through younger siblings, swaps and thrift racks. The notice gives a phone number, an email address and a website for the firm; details that old may have changed, and the CPSC notice stays online as the record.

How this recall compares

• With about 5,600 units, this is the 53rd largest of the 95 footwear recalls in our archive that give a U.S. unit count. The median recall in the archive covers about 7,200 units, so this one is below typical size.
• 9 other footwear recalls in the archive cite the same kind of hazard (cuts and scrapes), 5 of them in children’s footwear. The earliest in this group dates from 1997.
• The notice puts the sales window at about 3 months (January 2014 to March 2014), against a median of 7 months across recalls that state one. The recall came 6 months after the last sale date.
• The notice gives a price of $54. For shoes in the archive the typical stated price is about $38, so this pair sat at the pricier end of its group.
• The notice cites 2 reports before the recall. 36 of the 95 detailed notices in the archive cite no incidents at all.

Year, part, store and origin

• 2014 brought 5 footwear recalls in our archive, covering about 48,900 units in all. This was the 3rd of the year by date and the 4th largest by units.
• The notice names the metal part as the part that fails. 6 other footwear recalls in the archive name the same part in their hazard statement; the most recent is Sandals (2015).
• Sold at Zappos. 3 other footwear recalls in the archive also list Zappos as a seller; the most recent is Breeze Ave, Breeze Shore and Breeze Step women’s shoes in navy colors (2022).
• Made in Mexico. 1 of the 91 notices in the archive that name a country list Mexico (1%).
• 2 reports on about 5,600 units works out to roughly 36 reports per 100,000 units. The median across the 55 recalls that give both figures is 16, so this recall drew more reports per pair than most.
• At the stated price, the 5,600 units come to roughly $300,000 of retail sales.

Comparisons use the 103 footwear recalls in our archive, read from the CPSC recall database on October 20, 2026. See data and methods.