Sorry if I am a bit too blunt/straight forward with my comments, just want to help
I'm not a person into shoes/footwear, although I have a sister and that has taught me quite a lot (lol). The first thing that strikes me when I visit your community is the lack of customization to cater to the genre! You have selected a good forum style, but it looks too official/business like. You are doing good on the content side, it doesn't seem to be empty or lacking while browsing through, but you could customize and add more elements to make your audience feel at home. Some suggestions would be to change node icons to heels/boots etc. Add some shopping bags/shoe boxes (what are they called, when you buy em they put it to you in that and hand it to you) as a background image at the bottom of your page, it's just a minor addition that will add a lot. Small things like that add more to the experience, you need not create a own design or develop one (though I do suggest, if you wish to grow the community, either style your own themes to suit your genre or approach some awesome style developers on XenForo!)
Apart from that, are you on social networks? For your niche, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest <- these three will work the best (my opinion). Try to find some deals to post often on the social networks, images of new products and latest news related to the industry, it will attract more crowd to your community eventually. Do not pay for facebook advertising or promotion of your facebook page, its a huge scam, just take your time, continue to add content, ask your members to like it and it'll grow slowly but with more quality of followers
Good luck, and hope your community does well!
