Life Update

[a2macgeek]

Had a good, if busy weekend. Saturday was errand day - I brought the car in to have its battery looked at, returned a ton of bottle and cans that had been stacking up, and bought a new dress and flats for a wedding I'm attending this coming weekend (it's been a while since I attended a wedding, and my old flats have kind of fallen apart in the

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[a2macgeek]

Is that an online place or a brick & mortar? Either way, I don't think I've been there, unless they are the same place as DSW (which I think stands for Discount Shoe Warehouse). If it's a brick & mortar, I'll definitely check it out!

The problem I have is that my size is around a 10.5 and narrow. Once you hit size 10, the big shoe places I've shopped at don't have half sizes, and none of them carry narrow widths. My orthodics allow me to wear regular width sneaker/shoes, but they aren't cut to fit into flats or pumps, so I can't use them to cheat with dressy shoes. The pair I wound up getting are 10 medium, but for some reason they fit snugger than the other shoes I tried - there really is a lot of variation in fit among the manufacturers. But between DSW and Famous Footwear, I must have tried on 20 pairs of shoes before I found a pair that mostly fit. If I'd not waited until the weekend before the wedding, I probably could have found something better but I would have had to try a lot of stores to do it. This is why I hate shopping for shoes. :)

[sorcycat]

Ugh. I was referring to DSW, but apparently my shoe size is not as obscure as yours. Empathy.

[amanda_lodden]

Oddly, it used to be. I also wear a 9.5, and it used to be there was a hole in the sizing-- "smaller" sizes went up to 9, and then "larger sizes" started at 10. Presumably someone figured out that there was a vast untapped market in the 9.5 shoe size, because in the last 5-6 years all of a sudden they've been everywhere I've looked.

But I hear you-- I wear 9.5 wide, and finding wide-width is almost as much of a pain as finding narrow. I've resorted to stocking up once a year when my cousins and aunt and I do a Girl's Day Out and hit Birch Run.