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Families feel the pinch of higher children's shoe prices as kids head back to school

Families feel the pinch of higher children's shoe prices as kids head back to school

B2๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด โ†’ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English

August 14th, 2026

Families feel the pinch of higher children's shoe prices as kids head back to school

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English

A 12-year-old from suburban Chicago wanted Nike Minds sneakers, which claim to improve concentration.

์‹œ์นด๊ณ  ๊ต์™ธ์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” 12์‚ด ์†Œ๋…„์ด ์ง‘์ค‘๋ ฅ์„ ๋†’์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ๋‚˜์ดํ‚ค ๋งˆ์ธ์ฆˆ ์šด๋™ํ™”๋ฅผ ์›ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He and his mother searched online for a discount but found none.

๊ทธ์™€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ํ• ์ธ์„ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ์—์„œ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ฐพ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They bought the last pair in his size for the full price of $145.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ์— ๋งž๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํ•œ ์ผค๋ ˆ๋ฅผ 145๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ •๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ƒ€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The boy paid $40 of his own money.

์†Œ๋…„์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ˆ 40๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋ถˆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Shoe prices rose 3.2% in the first half of the year.

์˜ฌํ•ด ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์— ์‹ ๋ฐœ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด 3.2% ์˜ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

That puts full-year prices on track for their fastest increase in 34 years, apart from the pandemic years, according to a footwear trade group.

์‹ ๋ฐœ ์—…๊ณ„ ๋‹จ์ฒด์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์ด ์ถ”์„ธ๋ผ๋ฉด ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šน๋ฅ ์ด ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ  34๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น ๋ฅผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Parents say quality has declined while prices climb.

๋ถ€๋ชจ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ํ’ˆ์งˆ์€ ๋–จ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

One mother said she finds it frustrating to replace shoes before children outgrow them due to poor quality.

ํ•œ ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ํ’ˆ์งˆ์ด ๋‚˜๋น ์„œ ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ์‹ ๋ฐœ์„ ๋ชป ์‹ ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๊ต์ฒดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Kids face social pressure to wear the right brands, said a trend analyst.

ํ•œ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ ๋ถ„์„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ์œ ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์‹ ์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์••๋ฐ•์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Shoes are immediately identifiable as a sign of fitting in, she said.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์‹ ๋ฐœ์ด ์ง‘๋‹จ์— ์–ด์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ‘œ์‹œ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์•Œ์•„๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Wrong or worn-out shoes can invite bullying, said one student.

ํ•œ ํ•™์ƒ์€ ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ์‹ ๋ฐœ์ด๋‚˜ ๋‚ก์€ ์‹ ๋ฐœ์ด ๊ดด๋กญํž˜์„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

A school superintendent said she has seen students fixing shoes with duct tape.

ํ•œ ๊ต์œก๊ฐ์€ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ๋•ํŠธ ํ…Œ์ดํ”„๋กœ ์‹ ๋ฐœ์„ ๊ณ ์น˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Shoppers are buying fewer pairs.

์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ์‹ ๋ฐœ์„ ๋” ์ ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Adult footwear pairs sold fell 7% from January through June, while children's pairs dropped 9%, according to market research firm Circana.

์‹œ์žฅ ์กฐ์‚ฌ ๊ธฐ๊ด€ ์„œ์นด๋‚˜์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, 1์›”๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 6์›”๊นŒ์ง€ ์„ฑ์ธ์šฉ ์‹ ๋ฐœ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰์€ 7% ์ค„์—ˆ๊ณ , ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด์šฉ ์‹ ๋ฐœ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰์€ 9% ์ค„์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Retailers are offering back-to-school deals.

์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์€ ๊ฐœํ•™ ์‹œ์ฆŒ ํ• ์ธ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Secondhand stores report more interest in gently worn shoes.

์ค‘๊ณ  ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ƒˆ๊ฒƒ์ธ ์‹ ๋ฐœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ๋” ๋Š˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

One food service worker said she earns about $700 a week and must say no to new shoes for her daughter because rent costs $2,200 a month.

ํ•œ ์‹ํ’ˆ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ง์›์€ ์ฃผ๋‹น ์•ฝ 700๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฒŒ๋ฉฐ, ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ 2,200๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ผ์„œ ๋”ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒˆ ์‹ ๋ฐœ์„ ์‚ฌ์ฃผ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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