[Poll] Shoe sizes

[dancefloorlandmine]

OK, this is quite a long one, due to pollage, but was inspired by [Poll #391500](If you've got an assortment of differently sized shoes, please pick your usual size. If you don't know what UK size you take, the link above has a comparison table.)

OK, so I'm both bored and curious ...

EDIT: nils, is there something you want to share with the group? [grin] There's always one ...

Comments

[vampwillow]

I'm actually a 7 1/2 so sometimes a 7 and someimtes an 8, depending on whether I expect to walk a lot or just sit around in them ...

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Size 8 here. I do have problems trying to get shoes as you get Looked at by sales staff plus they rarely have a decent 8. A 'large' 7 is about as good as I get usually. Or you have to buy wider shoes (okay, boots) than you need.

[vampwillow]

I have the opposite problem as many eights are ok for length but slip off at the back being too wide for me. When I find shoes I like I tend to therefore wear them for years rather than seeking new ones.

Most places seem to offer up to size 8, but usually in the 'sensible' styles rather than anything really nice :-(

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

Try taking a 9.5 :(

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

OOOH. Bloody hell that must be a nightmare. (I have to say your icon is adorable.)

I admit to loafing around in men's boots for years because there simply wasn't anything for girls.

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

I wore men's shoes throughout most of my school years, DMs through Uni, and now have to rely on specialist places like Magnus and Tallgirls for shoes.

[bob]

Magnus are great. Its even better now they do proper online ordering.
Thanks to last couple of posts i remembered i needed to order some new trainers. My current pair i bought from magnus now leak in the rain. So i did now that they have proper online ordering.

When i went to their Hampstead branch the last tiem they were most helpful.

hayway

[fire-kitten.livejournal.com]

in leicester is also really good for large shoes, and thigh boots an goth boots. I think they are up to a size 14 and they custome make.

Court shoes are around 30 pounds.

I think they started out as a transvestite shop, but now sell a lot of stuff to women too.

Re: hayway

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

Heh, I bought my first pair of PVC thigh boots from Hayway in 1997 - they had a stall at WGW but were only carrying up to a size 8 - we had to drive down to their stall at a Tranny fair in Scarborough to get my size!

Not quite what I'd wear for work, though...

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

I wear "sensible" shoes and try to buy things like Doc Marten shoes for males because my feet are too damned wide for girl shoes.

[mooism.livejournal.com]

I used to wear size 10s until a shoe seller sold me a pair of size 11s. Now size 10s feel too small.

[vampwillow]

recalling a time when I analysed graphs and stuff, both these charts should be bell curves ...

The men's one clearly is

Where are all the size seven women though? There should be at least five so far ... come on ... own up!

;-P

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

They're in hiding. Apparently.

[hsb.livejournal.com]

I have the opposite problem. I have extremely narrow feet, a high instep, and I'm size 5, which is a very average size, so there's never anything in the sale. When I first outgrew shoes with width fittings, it used to take ages to find school shoes and summer shoes were impossible. In fact, I still find it hard to find summer shoes. My mother, in despair, ended up taking me to Harrods and buying me excessively expensive shoes that I was under orders to be extremely careful with.

It is rare for me to find shoes that cost less than 50 quid, smart ones usually cost double that, and I have kept one pair of summer shoes going since I was about 15. I look in every shoe sale rack, on the off chance. My only comfort is that Pratchett line about 50 dollar shoes as opposed to 10 dollar shoes.

I cannot wear New Rocks and Swears are a bit of a challenge. Their shallow shoes are terribly comfortable, and at 20 quid in the sale, the best value shoes I own, but the high shoes swill about and need insoles. Boots work slightly better, but I tend to have problems with certain types of heel.

I hate my feet

H

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I'm with you all the way. I'm a size 3, which means some shops don't even stock my size! And I have incredibly narrow feet - when I was a kid I had to get my shoes specially made for years because I wasn't in the standard width fittings. I also have a high instep and, weirdly, low ankle-bones.

I'm fine with boots as I can just put insoles in and lace them up tight to support the foot. Delicate, pretty shoes just don't happen, though.

Apparently Italian shoes are narrower, but they're prohibitively expensive over here.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Aww such teeny feet! Oooh! Bless.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

*grumph* Not. Big and scary. Grrrrrr.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

I'll be honest, your feet do not look that small. They look perfect for you.

I've always wanted small, cute feet but I'd fall over. A lot.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwwwwwww! Bless! [stroke] Ow! She bit me! [grin]

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Serves you right, going about touching peoples' feet.
That could get you kicked in the throat! (yes, I have ticklish feet. EXTREMELY so.)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

It's not that my feet art ticklish - I just cannot bear having them touched. It's a major squick.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. Heidi LOATHES feet, she simply can't bear them. Not even her own and if someone actually touches her foot - she's off and running. Hates it she does.

Tex has only got to look like he's going to touch my foot and I curl up into a ball. It's quite inconvenient.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Not your feet I was intending to stroke!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

[ahem] Not intending to stroke valkyriekaren's feet.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

[snork]

*tickles beard*

[hsb.livejournal.com]

It was Italian shoes my mother resorted to in Harrods - Ferrogama (sp?) or something. Unfortunately, Italian taste in shoes (esp in the late 80s) had a tendency to gold lame and overdecoration, which was a problem. When my feet finally got wide enough to fit *some* UK styles, my ma was greatly relieved. When I discovered that you could wear boots all year, I was relieved. But now I need work shoes.

The sandals that have lasted 15 years were 150 quid, if I remember correctly, which is a hell of a lot to spend on shoes for a teenager. But I have worn them a lot, over the years, and I still like the style of them. In fact, I gave serious thought to getting them copied last year, when I ripped them on an escalator. Instead, I mended them. But I'm still tempted to get them copied. Where does one get shoes copied?

H

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

Salvatore Ferragamo. Still a favourite with Sloane girls everywhere. :)

[thalinoviel.livejournal.com]

Boys school shoes are blessedly wide, and usually you can find fairly plain black loafers, suitable for work. You might find you want a 4 not a 5 in some shops as manufacturers allow "room for growth."

I always wear DM boots and trouser suits, meself. Saves the whole "ladder in my tights" crisis.

[hsb.livejournal.com]

I have narrow feet, not wide.

H

[lunacia.livejournal.com]

Size 3 is easier than size 2, though...

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

I know about the heel thing. I simply cannot wear anything with a slant to it, it has to be the flat Swear type platformy heels.

The other drawback is that I can't wear backless sandals or shoes because, when I have an MS attack and my feet go numb, I have been known to walk out of my shoes and leave them behind without noticing! Boots for me!

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

9 and a fraction, and *narrow* - there's a reason I only own boots, so I can cinch them in round ht ankles and keep them on - esp as mens shoes [so - everything except my Wedding Boots of Glory, then] are wider. My brother wears a 13/14 and has huge problems buying smart shoes - trainers are no problem, apparently.

[rabhairt.livejournal.com]

i had problems finding shoes i liked which fit me when i was growing up, as a result i have a bit of a shoe addiction. especially now that i live in the usa where shoes are available in much larger sizes than they are in the uk for some reason...

[kekhmet.livejournal.com]

actually 9 1/2

tens fall off at the heels, 9's unless made with wide toes squish my toes

wide shoes always are too wide at the heels

normal width shoes are usually to narrow at the toes, even in a 10 (which, as started above, is too wide at the heels even in normal width usually...) argh!!!!!!!!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

So your feet are even more triangular than most? [grin] Narrow at the heels, wide at the toes. Are you sure you're not from Innsmouth?

[vatine]

The web between the toes would be a direct giveaway, wouldn't it?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I used to go out with someone who had webbed toes - he was from Cornwall, though.

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

You have the same problem I do - really narrow heels, big feet and wide toes. Gah.

[nils.livejournal.com]

nils, is there something you want to share with the group

Sorry. This browser doesn't allow me to not select an item in a radio list. Thought I'd go for a far-out option so as not to skew the results too much...

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Aha! OK, thanks. And very thoughtful.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I can sometimes wear an 8 if wide enough (I am mostly an 8 1/2 which isn't a common size), and sometimes resort to mens size shoes for trainers if I can't get my size in ladies.

[lunacia.livejournal.com]

2 or 2 1/2 mostly.