Where can you find comfortable half size shoes?
Long ago, back in the 60s and 70s, you could go into a shoe shop and find something that was actually comfortable. A large number of them used to do shoes in half sizes. Nowadays, it's really hard to find shops that stock these. Why? Have our feet magically changed so that they are now whole sizes? No, of course not. It's just that half sizes are inconvenient for the manufacturer. They would much rather we squeezed our toes into shoes that were slightly too small. Or flopped about in ones just a touch too big. Eventually, we get fed up, donate the shoes to Oxfam and buy a new pair.
The other thing I notice is that most shoes seem to just have a piece of elastic at the front to hold them on. What happened to proper straps with actual buckles? They actually stayed on and were comfortable.
Now, with this elastic thing, you have to clench your toes to keep the shoe on and you end up with bunions. Again, it's shoe manufacturers trying to save money.
And have you noticed - when you put the shoes on a flat surface like a table - the toe part doesn't lie flat? It sort of curves up. Not really comfortable to wear, yet again. If I want to look like a medieval jester, I'll buy the red and yellow cap!!
So, what's going on? I find that the only place I can get shoes in half sizes is the USA. So, you end up paying shipping costs. ('m tired of never having a decent pair of shoes. I wish the shoe manufacturers would improve their designs.
By: Fedupinwales
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Chris 6 and a Half - 21-Sep-11 17:25
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desperate in england - 14-Nov-10 15:48
Beware of fakes on hundreds of professional looking websites (china) . They are fraudulent.
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Rock climbing hero - 13-Sep-10 23:44
HANDY HINT: chop your toes down to where your toenails start, and you wont be wearing inconvienient half sized shoes anymore!
Your welcome guys.
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Murphy Taylor - 20-Jul-10 00:43
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Murphy Taylor - 2-Apr-10 00:39
stop blaming me, its not me, I dont know who it is ok..
god...
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Murphy Taylor - 2-Apr-10 00:37
Except when you are using all those other names or when you are impersonating people like Fedupinwales? What a cheap and nasty thing the troll is, cowardly like all bullies.
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so bored with you - 29-Mar-10 01:32
Sbia adra.
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fedupinwales - 28-Mar-10 21:39
Do you really think we don’t all know that you are also posting as Art Rosenheim, Fitter 102, H.I.D 4 LIFE!, England Is Mine and a host of other names over the last few days? Your weak attempts to type in a different style, using different “voices” are fooling no one but boring everyone.''
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God mate what are you on about? I don't know who those users are but I have only ever used the name Murphy Taylor.
But I agree with the poster below me, welsh birds are dirty.
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Murphy Taylor - 26-Mar-10 01:20
Regarding the "charged full price for special offers " gripe - I think the big supermarkets take enough of people's hard earned cash without scamming us with fake offers that they "forget" to load into the computer system.
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fedup of fedupinwales - 25-Mar-10 09:49
Do you really think we don’t all know that you are also posting as Art Rosenheim, Fitter 102, H.I.D 4 LIFE!, England Is Mine and a host of other names over the last few days? Your weak attempts to type in a different style, using different “voices” are fooling no one but boring everyone.
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so bored with you - 25-Mar-10 02:04
Is Wales a land of people with Half-Sized Feet, Gays(i've seen little britain), Transgender people, midgets and sheep?
I have never been, although I have seen Gavin and Stacey which could confirm my fears.
I don't currently have enough ammo to wipe out the welsh, and it would probably cost quite a lot for an atomic bomb, not sure what the market is like these days. I know Britain does have nuclear weapons, it shouldn't be that hard to figure out where they keep them but i'd imagine they would be pretty well guarded so that's that plan out the window...
Apart from trying to run as a local MP and work my way up to Prime Minister and then re-instating the death penatly for anyone who tampers with Sheep, or better yet any farmyard animals, shouldn't take to long ..(apart from goats though, for obvious reasons....I love goats..)
yes ..yes that's what i'll do...yes...YES!..yes.....yes....
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Murphy Taylor - 25-Mar-10 01:34
What on earth are you going on about? Vanity just doesn't come into it. I just want comfortable shoes - I've lost count of the pairs that I've thrown away but they seemed ok in the shop but later hurt my feet.
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fedupinwales - 24-Mar-10 12:13
I remember feeling very awkward after I took a former partner a beatifully made, well polished, weaving shuttle and it turns out she was expecting a voucher for the hairdresser's, (dropped a few hints apparently.) But she insisted that the voucher would have made more of a difference to her life. Couldn't see it myself, the hairdo would have lasted a week, the shuttle, a lifetime.
Anyway we have too many unrealistic expectations most of the time - and for this we don't blame ourselves, (for having those unrealistic expectations,) we blame the shoe shops? It's not their fault.
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fedupinwales - 23-Mar-10 13:04
I know this wasn't addressed to me but I can't quite work out what he/she is getting at. Not particularly coherent. I give up.
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fedupinwales - 23-Mar-10 13:01
Shoe sizing is an artificial system imposed for the convenience of shoe manufacturers; we just wear the size (or half size) which is closest to the size of our feet.
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