Hello
Guest

Sponsored Links


« previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 4 5 [6] 7  All   

Topic: UK shoes  (Read 8573 times)

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

Re: UK shoes
« Reply #75 on: September 05, 2007, 07:47:03 PM »
I just found this page here:


http://www.uniquelywoman.co.uk/cgi-bin/hidata/hidata.pl

If you type "narrow shoes" into the little search field, it gives a listing of places in different towns in the UK that sell specifically narrow shoes. I don't know how helpful it is, but there appear to be a lot of them!
Logged

  • *
  • Posts: 6665

    • York Interweb
  • Liked: 8
  • Joined: Sep 2004
  • Location: York
Re: UK shoes
« Reply #76 on: September 05, 2007, 09:24:14 PM »
Quote from: SomedayInTheUK on September 05, 2007, 07:47:03 PM
I just found this page here:


http://www.uniquelywoman.co.uk/cgi-bin/hidata/hidata.pl

If you type "narrow shoes" into the little search field, it gives a listing of places in different towns in the UK that sell specifically narrow shoes. I don't know how helpful it is, but there appear to be a lot of them!

That is a great site. Not just for narrow shoes, but for all types of apparel in non-mainstream sizes. 
Logged

Re: UK shoes
« Reply #77 on: September 06, 2007, 01:06:36 AM »
Quote from: sweetpeach on September 05, 2007, 09:24:14 PM
That is a great site. Not just for narrow shoes, but for all types of apparel in non-mainstream sizes. 

I know! You can find wider shoes, larger sizes, petite sizes, vegan clothes, even things specifically for women who've had mastectomies. It's a great site to search on!
Logged

  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 5875

  • You'll Never Walk Alone
  • Liked: 8
  • Joined: Apr 2002
  • Location: Rochester, Kent
Re: UK shoes
« Reply #78 on: September 06, 2007, 09:00:45 AM »
Quote from: Tin on September 05, 2007, 07:42:58 PM
What I was told at a big shoe store was "We don't stock narrow sizes.  There isn't enough demand.  If you want narrow we can special order them in certain brands."  But of course you won't know how they fit until the order comes in - and can you then reject them?  Re-order countless other ones until you find one that fits?

My mother wears a US size 9 or 10, width 5A.  Yes - 5A.  She has absolutely NO fat on her feet at all - they are just bones with skin covering them - though they don't look like it at all.  They look "normal"!

Buying shoes with/for her is a nightmare.  She has been wearing the same style of shoe in 2 different colours for years now, because we CANNOT find shoes to fit her.  Even the places that claim to cater to narrow feet have no idea what to do with her...

So I guess maybe, my experience with my mother REALLY not being able to get shoes that fit has coloured my view on things.  I accept a little bit of pinch or having to put in a heel pad or whatever, because at least I can get shoes.
Logged
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

- Benjamin Franklin

  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 6859

  • Liked: 1
  • Joined: Apr 2003
  • Location: Down yonder in the holler, VA
Re: UK shoes
« Reply #79 on: September 06, 2007, 09:25:42 AM »
Well I have the opposite complaint... I can't find shoes anywhere because I have wide and flat feet...  (well one is basically flat) and it makes wearing any shoes with arch support painful...  I love shoes and hate shoe shopping in both countries...I always want to wear cute sexy shoes, but they are just too painful.. my SIL is the same... only hers are larger...thought the rest of her is thin.

I hate how sexy/cute shoes seem to be made for people with narrow feet and the rest of us get ugly clod hoppers...:-P  Though now I emphasize with people with really narrow feet too!
Logged
The wiring in our brain is not static, not irrevocably fixed.  Our brains are adaptable. -Mattieu Ricard

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. -Benjamin Franklin

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. -D.Day

  • *
  • Posts: 1526

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Oct 2005
  • Location: New York
Re: UK shoes
« Reply #80 on: September 06, 2007, 09:39:40 AM »
Quote from: vnicepeep on September 06, 2007, 09:25:42 AM

I hate how sexy/cute shoes seem to be made for people with narrow feet and the rest of us get ugly clod hoppers...:-P  Though now I emphasize with people with really narrow feet too!


That does enfuriate me at times.  I have not come across a single premium shoe brand that did not run narrow.  Of course, there are ways around this but it would be nice for once to buy shoes that were made for slightly wider feet, after alll, after paying a small fortune, I want them to fit like glove!

I have read about this and just like with clothes, it has a lot to do with what society (and thus designers) currently think is sexy and apparently narrow, thin feet area a sign of femeninity  ::)

June
Logged

  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 2985

  • An eagle swooped down from a semi-trailer
  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Sep 2002
Re: UK shoes
« Reply #81 on: September 06, 2007, 10:13:00 AM »
Going by the ancestory idea, could it also be that narrow feet are a seen as being well-off (or descended from those who were well off)? Wide clodhopping feet being peasant class, and developing so because of the work their owners did, and thin, narrow feet being the feet of the rich?


Just a thought. It's like having peasant ankles cause you're descended from, well peasant stock. lol.
Logged

  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 3500

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Mar 2007
Re: UK shoes
« Reply #82 on: September 06, 2007, 09:29:46 PM »
My feet are now "thin" and "wealthy" as well as being Swedish!   :)  This just keeps getting better and better!  Now if only I could find some shoes that fit...
Logged
doing laundry

Re: UK shoes
« Reply #83 on: September 06, 2007, 09:52:47 PM »
What if your feet are average width and your toes turn up at the ends? What kinda feet are those? ;D
Logged

  • *
  • Posts: 1526

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Oct 2005
  • Location: New York
Re: UK shoes
« Reply #84 on: September 06, 2007, 09:55:46 PM »
Any of you a US 7.5 with narrow feet?
Logged

  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 3500

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Mar 2007
Re: UK shoes
« Reply #85 on: September 06, 2007, 10:02:29 PM »
7.5 UK or 7.5 USA?
Logged
doing laundry

  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 3500

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Mar 2007
Re: UK shoes
« Reply #86 on: September 06, 2007, 10:04:10 PM »
Duh, I just saw the "US".  I can read. Really I can.
Logged
doing laundry

  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 1189

    • Chronicles of Squidgyboo
  • Liked: 1
  • Joined: Mar 2006
  • Location: Manchester, England
Re: UK shoes
« Reply #87 on: September 07, 2007, 01:22:04 AM »
Hmm I just read all these posts and think I must be weird. I don't have a problem finding shoes.  I wear a 7us/5uk.  I just keep trying on shoes until one size fits.  I figure it's just like clothing, a size 12 in one place is too big and in another place it's soo tight you can't get them passed your thighs. 

Good luck in finding the shoes you want.
Logged
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

  • *
  • Posts: 5416

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Apr 2007
Re: UK shoes
« Reply #88 on: September 07, 2007, 03:19:44 PM »
Quote from: madeira on August 31, 2007, 10:07:28 PM
Hoping to buy a pair of REAL Doc Marten's while we're here. 

Sorry, but I bought some recently and they are made in China now, too.
Logged

  • *
  • Posts: 1509

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Jan 2006
  • Location: Oppama, Japan
Re: UK shoes
« Reply #89 on: September 07, 2007, 03:53:21 PM »
Junehawk, I take a US 7.5 or 8, narrow.  Why do you ask?
Logged

Pages: 1 ... 4 5 [6] 7  All   
« previous next »

Sponsored Links





 

coloured_drab