A shoe-sizing question
Beginning with a digression: as I figure is likely true of most people in close relationships, 
scruloose have our own sort of shorthand when talking to each other. Some parts of it are weirder than others. And sometimes it results in things like me looking into a mostly-empty container and saying, out of the blue, "The love is almost gone."
(Translation: "We're almost out of chocolate marshmallow squares." I do the baking/sweets-making around here, generally, but
scruloose has let me arrange things so that the default is him making marshmallow squares (those rocky-road sorts of things, not crispy rice squares) and scones, because if I learn to make them we'll drown in the things. Somewhere along the line, I started claiming that the squares are proof of love.)
Oh, time change. :/ We have Pumpkin coming over in the morning, and I should've been in bed over half an hour ago, given that we're losing an hour tonight. Here's hoping I can approximate consciousness!
The point of the post: I've been thinking for a while that I'd like a pair of all-weather boots other than my combats, and when Ginny was here at Christmas I was admiring the fact that she has Fluevog boots that she wears outside in imperfect weather. (I can never shake the feeling that my 'vogs are not to be risked in less than ideal conditions. >.>)
And now the Pattis are hugely on sale, and I already have the Jonis from that family, so if the soles are consistent across the family (I know they're not always; apparently with the Minis you should always try on each style no matter how many other Minis you've worn), I can reasonably assume I'd find these boots comfortable. (The day I bought my Jonis, I walked around Toronto in them for about eight hours, straight out of the box, and my feet were fine--especially impressive since they have an admittedly-low heel, and I don't generally wear heels at all. The Jonis are by far my favorite of my Fluevogs, and they're the ones I almost didn't buy.)
Thing is, there's nowhere around here to try Fluevogs on, so I'd have to gamble on mail ordering them, and sale items can only be returned for store credit. And the key worry: I have the Jonis in a 6, and the Pattis aren't available in a 6, so I'd have to get a 6.5. And I know very little about shoe sizing, so I have no real sense of whether the fact that the Jonis are sandals and therefore worn on bare feet and the Pattis are boots and would be worn with socks would make up the difference.
Do any of you have input? I've looked at a couple of shoe sizing charts online, but they're not helping me get a mental idea of the difference. (I've also dropped Fluevog a note on Twitter to ask if the soles in that family are consistently sized.)
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scruloose have our own sort of shorthand when talking to each other. Some parts of it are weirder than others. And sometimes it results in things like me looking into a mostly-empty container and saying, out of the blue, "The love is almost gone."
(Translation: "We're almost out of chocolate marshmallow squares." I do the baking/sweets-making around here, generally, but
scruloose has let me arrange things so that the default is him making marshmallow squares (those rocky-road sorts of things, not crispy rice squares) and scones, because if I learn to make them we'll drown in the things. Somewhere along the line, I started claiming that the squares are proof of love.)
Oh, time change. :/ We have Pumpkin coming over in the morning, and I should've been in bed over half an hour ago, given that we're losing an hour tonight. Here's hoping I can approximate consciousness!
The point of the post: I've been thinking for a while that I'd like a pair of all-weather boots other than my combats, and when Ginny was here at Christmas I was admiring the fact that she has Fluevog boots that she wears outside in imperfect weather. (I can never shake the feeling that my 'vogs are not to be risked in less than ideal conditions. >.>)
And now the Pattis are hugely on sale, and I already have the Jonis from that family, so if the soles are consistent across the family (I know they're not always; apparently with the Minis you should always try on each style no matter how many other Minis you've worn), I can reasonably assume I'd find these boots comfortable. (The day I bought my Jonis, I walked around Toronto in them for about eight hours, straight out of the box, and my feet were fine--especially impressive since they have an admittedly-low heel, and I don't generally wear heels at all. The Jonis are by far my favorite of my Fluevogs, and they're the ones I almost didn't buy.)
Thing is, there's nowhere around here to try Fluevogs on, so I'd have to gamble on mail ordering them, and sale items can only be returned for store credit. And the key worry: I have the Jonis in a 6, and the Pattis aren't available in a 6, so I'd have to get a 6.5. And I know very little about shoe sizing, so I have no real sense of whether the fact that the Jonis are sandals and therefore worn on bare feet and the Pattis are boots and would be worn with socks would make up the difference.
Do any of you have input? I've looked at a couple of shoe sizing charts online, but they're not helping me get a mental idea of the difference. (I've also dropped Fluevog a note on Twitter to ask if the soles in that family are consistently sized.)
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