If you are heading out of the country on holiday, and your destination is warmer and drier than your home country, you will doubtless need to haul out last season's summer outfits before your head off on your trip. While your clothes are bound to be intact, you may find that your shoes have taken a hammering, particularly if you favoured one pair in particular during the warmer months.

Sourcing and selecting summer shoes in the middle of winter is not always an easy task. You will find that most stores, both online and at your local mall or high street, stock only cold weather footgear.

Unless you want to wear fitflop continuously throughout your holiday, you will need to employ some resourceful thinking. Begin by compiling a short list of factory shops and discount stores. This kind of retailer tends to stock last season's items, sold at discount prices.

Employ the same strategy when you come to look for appropriate footwear online. Pay attention to virtual shoe stores advertising cut prices and sales; invariably you will find these include ranges of shoes from the previous summer, and, what is more, these will be going for considerably less than their original price.

Buying shoes out of season is not always easy. However, you should be able to find plenty of retailers stocking items from the previous season, and the chances are good that these will be on offer at a reduced cost as well.