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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Hard to find shoes
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 00:30:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 00:30:19 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

I'd like to go on record as agreeing tht it's hard to find non-stylish
but comfortable shoes.  In fact, it's hard to find shoes that even
approximately fit if you're an unusual size.  At 4'10" and wide-boned
(my father's 5'6" and wears a EEE width), my feet compute out to 5 1/2 C
or 5 D on a shoe chart.  Most stores don't believe such people exist and
refuse to cater to them.

After years of looking I managed to find a place that sold me some
medium heel, 5 1/2 D toe/B heel shoes.  I paid $75 a pair for them six
yers ago and have been paying $10 every year or so since then to get them
repaired.  Not too bad a bargain on the whole.  But...what do I do for
walking shoes?

Not running or jogging or tennies.  Shoes I can walk ten hours a day in
with nice thick soles and ankle support.

Back in 1975 I got a pair of Wallabies.  Ugly but comfortable.  And in my
size.  They were the last ones the store and they were mismatched (one
was tan, one was brown), but who cared.  When I got back from Japan,
I tried to get another pair, but the store was still sold out.   Now it
turns out the manufacturer has discontinued my size for the same old reason.
People like me don't exist.  Or at least not enough of us exist to be worth
selling to.  Or even to be worth answering when I wrote the manufacturer a
letter, enclosing a self-addressed stamped envelope.

Anyone out there know anyone who makes walking shoes for /hobbits/ urr...
short, wide-boned women?

--Lee Gold