Pull the sleeve onto a clean, dry bare heel so the wedge sits under the heel and the top edge sits below your ankle bone. Sock over the top, shoe on as normal. Rinse under the tap at the end of the day and leave to air dry.


The part that matters happens before you leave the house.
You typed the number, deleted it, typed it again. Somewhere between what you are and what gets swiped there is an inch or two, and you know precisely how many.
So you round up. Then you spend the two evenings before the date rehearsing the moment she looks up and does the arithmetic. Sometimes you cancel instead. You tell yourself it was the work thing.
Imagine instead walking in on Thursday, watching her look up, and having nothing at all to explain — because the man in front of her is the man in the message.
ELVO™ is designed for exactly that.
A dating profile is read in about four seconds and one of those seconds is spent on a number. You cannot argue with that and neither can we.
What you can do is close the gap between the number and the evening. The lift is a soft silicone wedge moulded into a sleeve that grips your bare heel, so it goes under a normal sock and inside a normal shoe.
It does not change how you walk into a bar and it does not change what happens if you end up somewhere you have to take your shoes off. That second part is the reason it is built as a sleeve and not an insole.

1Like a short sock. Thirty seconds, and it stays put by grip rather than glue.
2Straight over the top. From here on there is nothing to think about.
3Any closed-heel shoe. No special footwear, nothing that looks like a lift.
IllustrationAn illustration of where the wedge sits, not a customer photograph. The lift figure is the wedge under your heel; the total figure counts the sole of an average trainer on top of it, which is how everybody in this category quotes it and how you will actually experience it.
| Elevator shoes and thick soles | ELVO |
|---|---|
| Committed to one pair of shoes | Goes in whichever pair you own |
| Obvious from the side | Nothing to see from any angle |
| Useless the moment shoes come off | Still on your foot |
| An expensive shoe you wear on dates | The shoes you already wear |
This does not make you taller. It makes you stand taller, for as long as you are wearing it, which is exactly what a heel does for everybody who has ever worn one. Nobody thinks that is dishonest when a woman does it.
What it buys you is the part before the date rather than the date itself — not rehearsing, not rounding, not cancelling on a Wednesday and blaming work. If you have ever done that, you already know what that is worth.
And if you wear them once and decide it wasn't the problem after all, email us inside thirty days and we refund it. That is a reasonable way to find out.
Not while your shoes are on, and not with your socks on either — the sleeve ends below the ankle bone and a normal sock ends above it. What we will not pretend is that the height is permanent. It is a heel lift, worn like one.
This is the reason it is built as a sleeve rather than an insole. It grips your heel, so it comes off with the shoe only if you take it off. In socks you are the same height you were all evening.
If you have never worn a lift, take the lowest. Two to three inches sounds small on paper and is very noticeable underfoot for the first few days. You can go up later; going up on the first night is how people end up walking oddly.
They are soft silicone rather than a rigid wedge, and the heel cup stops them migrating around the shoe. That is what we can honestly say. A raised heel for six hours is still a raised heel — if your feet already complain, start with the lowest lift.
A raised heel does keep the calf and Achilles slightly shorter while you wear it, the same as any heeled shoe. Don't live in them, take them out at home, and stretch. If you have an existing Achilles or foot problem, ask someone qualified first.
One real evening in real shoes. If they were not the thing, email us inside thirty days and we refund the order — no need to send anything back.
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