I have freakishly, mutantly wide feet. 4E fit when most shoes are made in a B fitting. Way on the outer fringes of shoe fittin ..... AA, A, B, C, D, E, EE, EEE, EEEE

http://www.shoebuy.com/aravon-kendall/587535Because I'm stocky the last thing I need is an ankle strap!  and I'm a bit exciteable cos a couple more online shoe shops will now ship ( Read more... )

Did I mention that I ordered some custom shoes from Andy Burke. They flew half way around the world in just over a week, and are waiting for me to try them on with my stockings (actually knee high thin cotton socks ( Read more... )

Last year I contacted Andy Burke to see if it would be possible to get a pair of these shoes made in time for JAFA - and he said yes!  I ordered them in mid-green and he posted them to me on [UK] Monday this week. Mine will look chunkier than this because I have short stocky flippers for feet. Naturally building up the lasts to my size cost extra, ( Read more... )

Shark week 2 weeks early, from the lost-handbag stress of last Thursday. Though the 5 delay is an improvement as last year any stress resulted in shark week turning up the next day, and having a 2 week cycle for months. Long enough that I hoped it meant menopause. It didn't ( Read more... )

am thinking of contacting him for shoes, will have to see as i can't order til middle of the year.
http://www.andyburke.co.uk/c19th.htm

I like the option of cemented or welted soles.  I'm happy to get cemented and save around $70

No idea of his quality or reputation

My pink wellies arrived from england, yayyy for dry feet.  We've just had a crazy hot day today for winter - 25C!!! That's totally crazy considering 2 weeks ago it was freakign cold, dumping rain so we had how many times the average rainfall for the month within one week, and the cold wind was coming from the snowfields a few hours drive away.  ( Read more... )

Last night I wanted to go to bed when I got home, so I didn't risk sewing cos of the danger of stoopid.   I'm creating a new upstairs 'pile o stuff' that needs to be culled & organised.   In it is the stays pattern pieces I need for later this week.  I gotta get busy on it & thankfully already know it'll be quick to sew once I get the pattern sized ( Read more... )

It's probably too late in winter to be much use this year, but I've ordered some wellies from the UK.  Evans had them in my flipper foot size and bright pink it is.

They probably won't arrive til the 2nd week of August ... and winter is usually almost over. Though it started early so maybe it'll end late too.  Either way, I have wellies for next ( Read more... )

These are *my* shoes in more than one sense.

1. i own them

2. I designed, drafted, stitched & lasted them.  I also built up the lasts to fit my feet ... and my teachers were suprised how accurately I was able to mirror image the sanding - purely by eyeball. They're the shoes I'm most proud of.  I mainly made sandals as it's almost impossible to ( Read more... )

I've not come across these before so there are still existing and exciting things to find on the internets. {happy dance}

So these come in a choice of red, white, black or brown, and they're not cheap, but they're not as expensive as I'd expect.  In fact possibly no dearer than I'm used to depending on the cost of international post ... given that I ( Read more... )