Dear retailers… why don’t you want my money?
I come into your shops, I scour your online stores and I Google incessantly trying to find shoes that aren’t… ugly. Except the thing is, my feet are not the standard size 7.
Like many women around Australia (including six in my office when I conducted a quick poll) I wear a size 12, which is a European size 42 or 43 for those playing along at home.
In most stores, they stop at a size 41 — and while there's now more size-inclusive clothing, feet come in different sizes, too!
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Sure, I can head online to some obscure specialty stores with awful names like “Huge Hooves” or “Flippers R Us” (okay I’m exaggerating for dramatic effect but the names are pretty grim). And the choices are veeeery small, which is quite ironic.
And I’ll let you in on a secret, women with feet a few sizes bigger than the average don’t suddenly want to wear shoes designed for either a mediaeval peasant or a basketballer.
All my big-footed girlies will know the struggle of attempting to squeeze your feet into nearest size available and just dealing with the blisters later (I still have trauma from the ballet flat years and REFUSE to believe they’re making a comeback.)
