Magical Sailor Fuku

I am beggining to feel abit envious of people with smaller and wider feet. They get all the cool looking shoes, that are less expensive. I can only find one good pair of a size 18 B shoe and it's normally boots. I say the shoe stores are evil, and are working just to gain money for the midgets!

I just want to add one addendum in here- if you're a woman with a wide foot, you have problems too. Admittedly I'm not am 18, and thus, don't have the same problems as you presumably do in that area. But if you want wide-width female shoes, expect to pay a good bit for them, because the stores with good prices don't carry them. And dress shoes? May as well mount an epic quest. I needed a pair of good shoes to wear in order to be in a friend's wedding, and in order to find a pair that fit my wide feet and also didn't cost an arm and a leg, I had to go to twelve different stores. Yep, count 'em- twelve. It was ridiculous. Heck, in one store (a good-sized department store, nonetheless) I was really frustrated with the lack of proper fit and just said straight out to the sales lady: "Do you have any dress shoes in wide width?" Her response was "No, not really." Shoe manufacturers seem to think women with a wide foot A) have a lot of money and B) don't want to wear anything other than sneakers. Most of the time that's true for me, but occasionally you do need something else. Grrr.

my only problems with finding shoes are the following

1) shoes that seem to be designed for flat feet, but don't have any allowance for me to put in an arch support insert.

2) shoes that only have 1/2 sizes or alternatively no 1/2 sizes - it is always a pain in the butt when discovering a size 9 1/2 is much too big, but the 8 1/2 is too small... but totally don't have any size 9!

That's certainly a large shoe size you have to wear there. I'd think that that kind of size would need to be special-ordered. O.o I wear a size twelve... I have no idea what my width is, though. And I can't say that I have any problems with finding shoes, except in the case that they just don't have the kind of colors I'm looking for. I'm still wearing a pair of shoes that I've had since 2000 or so, and they still work for me. ^_^; (And other than the zori that I wear around the house, they are the only pair of shoes that I own. I haven't needed dress shoes since before I was a teenager, which is over a decade ago. So, yeah... Shoes have never been an issue for me.)

May-chan wrote:my only problems with finding shoes are the following

1) shoes that seem to be designed for flat feet, but don't have any allowance for me to put in an arch support insert.

2) shoes that only have 1/2 sizes or alternatively no 1/2 sizes - it is always a pain in the butt when discovering a size 9 1/2 is much too big, but the 8 1/2 is too small... but totally don't have any size 9!

I feel your pain on number one too. I have flat feet, and it's hard as hell to find inserts for a size 18 shoe.

Kamal wrote:

May-chan wrote:my only problems with finding shoes are the following

1) shoes that seem to be designed for flat feet, but don't have any allowance for me to put in an arch support insert.

2) shoes that only have 1/2 sizes or alternatively no 1/2 sizes - it is always a pain in the butt when discovering a size 9 1/2 is much too big, but the 8 1/2 is too small... but totally don't have any size 9!

I feel your pain on number one too. I have flat feet, and it's hard as hell to find inserts for a size 18 shoe.

no no no, I don't have flat feet, I have very high arches... it's the shoes that are flat...

I know where the arch is, but how do you know if you have much of one or are flat? I mean, if you have flat feet, do you literally have no arch?

Empyrean Nikkou wrote:I know where the arch is, but how do you know if you have much of one or are flat? I mean, if you have flat feet, do you literally have no arch?

yes, which causes problems for people with that, I think people with flat feet aren't even allowed to join the military because it impairs running.


how you know... well just looking at your feet, or observe what your footprint looks like if you are barefoot and step through something wet. A high arch will have a smaller "bridge" between the heel and the ball, and a flatter arch will have a wider one.

Ah... I must have a high arch, then. O.o

I know how it is to have both high arches and wide feet at the same time. It is whole lot of trouble finding shoes that fit. They must be wide enough to accomodate my feet, large enough for the inserts to fit and be able to be held tightly enough for the inserts to work properly. Add to that the fact that my feet have just the length where they are on the small side of male sizes and the large side of female sizes, so that next to shoes actually fit me. Really makes getting shoes annoying.

It's funny because I go to a store for people with large feet of course, they have my sizes..but none that are a B. They sale from sizes 13-20. You should have seen the size twenty female high heeled shoes. O.o Or the ones for diabetic people. Looked like something out of Frankenstien.