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From: CJC@psuvm.BITNET
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Hard to find shoes
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 16:19:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 16:19:13 1985
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>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.
>
   I have short wide feet too, and for years I've been getting walking
shoes in boy's sizes. It's not a perfect solution - the heel is usually
too wide and the styles are chancy - but it's better than anything I've
found in the womens' section.  The recent Sears catalog has offered some
shoes in wide and extra wide sizes; I haven't had the courage to get
mail-order shoes yet, so I'm asking  - has anyone tried 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
     
   What marvelous luck!  I remember my mother talking about combination
last shoes (that was in the 50's) but I thought they had vanished to the
place where all good things go, I hadn't come across any evidence of
them for many years.
     
                                         --Carolyn J. Clark
     
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