It's your veins, not your shoes.

Doctors call it venous insufficiency, and it's the most common cause of swollen legs and ankles as we age. Over a day, your feet can swell by up to 8% (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons).

It usually starts after 50 and it's more common in women. Some blood pressure pills add to it. On the amlodipine (Norvasc) label, ankle swelling tops the list of side effects, at 14.6% of women against 5.6% of men. Never stop or change a medicine without asking your doctor.

1. 1Tiny valves in your leg veins weaken with age.
2. 2Blood and fluid pool low, in your ankles and feet.
3. 3Your foot gets bigger as the day goes on.
4. 4A shoe made for your morning foot starts to squeeze.
5. 5EasyWrap opens and adjusts to the foot you have now. Zero compression.

The shoe that changes size with your foot

EasyWrap looks like an ordinary sneaker until you lift the strap. Then the whole top folds back, and a swollen foot goes straight in, flat. One strap, no laces, no shoehorn.

Zero compression. It closes only as far as you set it, so nothing is ever tight around your foot or ankle. Change it whenever your foot changes: a custom fit every time you put them on.

It's the fit US health guidelines (NIH) tell you to look for: a shoe you can adjust easily, with room for your toes, never tight.

One strap, from breakfast to bedtime

Here's what a day looks like when your shoes adjust with you.

1. 18am. Step in, wrap the strap snug, and you're out the door.
2. 211am. Errands, a walk round the block. The strap holds them firmly on your morning foot.
3. 33pm. The pressing starts. Open the strap, ease it a notch, close it. A few seconds, sitting or standing.
4. 47pm. Still in your own shoes at dinner. Not in slippers, not barefoot under the table.

Room for bunions, hammertoes and sore spots

Swelling is rarely the only thing. A bunion, a curled toe, a sore spot on the side of the foot: a fixed shoe presses on every one of them, and by the afternoon that's all you can feel.

EasyWrap's extra-wide toe box gives your toes room to lie flat, and because the top opens all the way, nothing has to be forced past a sore spot to get it on.

Picture next Saturday

Doctors say walking is especially good for your leg veins (Cleveland Clinic): with every step, your calf muscles help push blood back up. EasyWrap is made to keep you walking.

Shoes on at breakfast, and still on at dinner. The afternoon in the garden you've been putting off. Down on the floor with the grandkids instead of watching from the chair.

Nobody will know they're made for swelling

Many shoes for swollen feet look exactly like what they are: bulky, beige, medical. EasyWrap is a plain black or maroon sneaker with a breathable upper. The strap sits where laces would.

At lunch, a friend glances down and asks where you got them. Nobody asks why.

You've seen lookalikes. Here's why this one is different.

Wide strap shoes are everywhere online. Ours is sold only on this website, made for one woman: the one whose feet swell and who still wants to look good.

And it costs $79.95, against a typical $119 for a specialist pair.

Get back to the garden, in shoes that don't squeeze.

Wear them for 50 days: in the garden, at the store, out with friends. If they're not for you, you get every cent back.

P.S. Tomorrow at 3pm your feet will swell again. The only question is whether your shoes will still fit.