Shoe prices increased in September in tandem with overall inflation , according to the latest data from the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America ( FDRA ).

In September, retail prices of footwear climbed 1.3 percent, just shy of August’s 1.4 percent advance and the second fastest in seventeen months, the FDRA noted.

This comes as prices were generally higher across each target market last month. Rising 2.8 percent from twelve months earlier, prices for women’s footwear led to the upside in September, the second fastest in more than two and a half years.

Gary Raines , chief economist at FDRA, told FN that the September expansion in total footwear prices pushed year-to-date footwear prices “modestly higher.”

“Retail footwear prices now have climbed year-over-year fo

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