I have wide feet, narrow heels, thickish ankles and very high insteps ... I cannot even find wellington boots that I can get my feet into, unless they're so huge that my feet rattle around inside them and they begin to fall off with each step I take. The only riding boots I could ever wear were the most expensive ones with a zip up the back. Now I'm hatching a bunion and a claw toe ... I think I'll have to spend my life in slipper-socks and Crocs
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The thing is @B3 that once upon a time I had feet I could squeeze into chisel-toe slingbacks with 3" heels and wear them to work all day, walk a mile to the bus stop, travel 12 miles home on the bus and then still have feet happy enough to go out in the evening. What happened to those feet ... where have they gone?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have wide feet, narrow heels, thickish ankles and very high insteps ... I cannot even find wellington boots that I can get my feet into
I have the wide feet, narrow heels and high insteps as well, and a 'knocked up' toe. I've been wearing Grubs Tideline wellies for dog walking this winter with thick socks and finding them very comfortable. (I don't have shares in the company) OH went and bought some of the slightly heavier ones as well because he has a bunion and also finds shoes a bit tricky and he thought mine looked comfy. He's barely taken them off since
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Bare feet or flip flops are my ideal feet environment and open sandals come a close third so I'm pretty peeved still to be needing thermal socks this far into April with slippers indoors and wellies outdoors. On the other hand, it means I don't yet need to be messing with pedicures and toe nail varnish.
Buying shoes and sandals that fit is much easier since the ops in 2013 but I can't do heels at all and that is a problem. Even some slippers and wellies here have a slight heel and that just doesn't do.
OH wore a pair of steel capped wellies for gardening for years but they've finally collapsed and he now has a pair of rubber galosh type ankle boots which he finds very comfy.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I wish my feet would grow - just half to one size up would make shoe shopping so much easier, 3.5 (European 36) and 4 being reasonably widely available. 2.5 to 3 (Euro 35 or 35.5) is much more difficult (childrens' shoes are generally no good - they tend to be too wide at the heels and not supportive enough in the arches, as well as hideous).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Well I used to wear size ten boots, an expensive pair of work but style fashion boots at university. Not safety rated but very comfortable fior all the time I spent on my feet in them. Later on I became sized 9 even as low as 8.5. no idea how my feet have gotten smaller. Right now I can be 8.5 to 9.5 with one model of shoe from one brand is between 9.5 and 10 for me.
I wear 9 safety boots by at work and it's so high volume I can turn my foot around inside it? That's with the laces some up so tight the flaps with the lace holes are practically overlapping! One day I slipped n inside my boot so much I had to do something. I cut two or three cardboard pieces and put them under my inner sole. Not I never take the inner sole out just add another one, cheapie supermarket ones that flatten. It still ends up needing more layers to fill the boot. All safety boots the company has bought are like this. That's why I'm buying my own and hopefully getting better fitting ones.
I bought mu OH a pair of Earthworks safety foot ware boots with a steel toecap, oil and acid resistant online from Shoezone. He says he doesn’t know he is wearing them. He has a broad foot.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Buying shoes and sandals that fit is much easier since the ops in 2013 but I can't do heels at all and that is a problem. Even some slippers and wellies here have a slight heel and that just doesn't do.
OH wore a pair of steel capped wellies for gardening for years but they've finally collapsed and he now has a pair of rubber galosh type ankle boots which he finds very comfy.
I wear 9 safety boots by at work and it's so high volume I can turn my foot around inside it? That's with the laces some up so tight the flaps with the lace holes are practically overlapping! One day I slipped n inside my boot so much I had to do something. I cut two or three cardboard pieces and put them under my inner sole. Not I never take the inner sole out just add another one, cheapie supermarket ones that flatten. It still ends up needing more layers to fill the boot. All safety boots the company has bought are like this. That's why I'm buying my own and hopefully getting better fitting ones.