Abstract: Low drop footwear which provides an illusion or an outward appearance of heeled footwear having heel-to-toe drop greater than D.r comprising an upper having an outside face and an inside face, a low drop insole having a footbed face and a heel-to-outsole face, and further comprising a heel and an outsole, said low drop insole comprising a backpart and a forepart and a midpart therebetween, said insole backpart comprising a point-of-heel at said footbed face thereof and said insole forepart comprising a point-of-treadline at said footbed face thereof, wherein said insole footbed face provides a real heel-to-toe drop D.r between said point-of-heel and said point-of-treadline, relative to said tread plane, wherein D.r is in a range of from zero drop to 15 mm drop; and wherein said low drop insole comprises an insole backpart thickness at point-of-heel t.ih and comprises an insole forepart thickness at point-of-treadline t.it wherein t.ih is less than t.