I dunno about anyone else, but I hate shoe shopping because my feet are a half size apart :rolleyes: makes it a pain to buy shoes when one shoe size is inevitably too loose and the other too tight.
My mother has this problem even though she has small feet (6-1/2). Every time I go shoe shopping with her, she asks me whether they make her feet look puffy about a hundred times. As for me, I’m 5’3", female, and wear a 7-1/2 or 8 shoe (if it only comes in whole sizes, I’ll round up.) The downside to having such a common shoe size is it sells out quick. I have narrow feet, like quite a few posters, and slides and sandals are often a dicey proposition.
I dig shoes. I have everything from flats to stilettos, water shoes to work boots, red satin mules to granny slippers. But being rather stingy (Oh, the conflict!), I shop at Payless and DSW.
I think there is more available now than 30 years ago, when I graduated from high school. I needed a nice pair of pumps for graduation, and it took me a loooong time to find a size 10 then. A gorgeous brown leather pair. That pair cost the ungodly (at that time) sum of $45.
One of my dogs ate the left shoe about 10 years later. Bummer.
Size 11+ (in other words, an 11, an 11 1/2, or an 11W depending on the shoe).
I consider my shoe size to be reasonably small considering my height, but I still find in difficult to shop in most shoe stores and all department stores. I find that most manufacturers sell my size directly though (in an outlet store or online), in at least some styles.
My feet are hella wide for the length, which means I used to buy a lot of 12s or even 13s to sort of fit my foot, but with too much toe room. Lately I’ve been wearing boots all the time, which are easier to get in weird sizes and more durable, but I picked up a pair of New Balance sneakers a couple weeks ago that actually fit. My foot is about the same size as my wife’s size 9 sneaker.