I recently discovered that I have been wearing the wrong size shoes all of my life. No wonder my feet always hurt!
You may wonder why I’ve always worn the wrong size shoes. Well, mainly because the local shoe stores don’t sell the size shoe that I need, and the salespeople basically have always told me “that’s the best fit you’re going to get” and I believed them.
Years ago I went to buy winter boots at LL Bean in Freeport Maine, and the salesperson there was having trouble fitting me with boots that fit. Eventually she told me that the problem was that I have the feet of a pre-teen boy, and she sold me a pair of boy’s boots that fit me just fine. My feet are small, but they are extra-extra wide! The boots weren’t pretty, but they fit me just fine and lasted many years. In fact, as my sons grew up, they eventually wore them for a winter season or two!
Good grief, I’m taking a long time to get to the point here! I’ve been job hunting and wanted to try to find nice looking comfortable shoes (which I did not have.) A friend of mine lent me a catalog dedicated to comfortable clothes and shoes. Looking through that catalog, I found a pair of shoes that looked like I would like to buy, but they did not sell my size. So I went on the Internet and tried to find that style of shoe in my size. Through that search I found zappos.com, an Internet store that sells a lot of shoes in a lot of sizes, and they pay for shipping BOTH WAYS. They were a little bit pricey on the shoes themselves, but after ordering (and returning) about ten pairs of shoes, I finally found some shoes that FIT and are COMFORTABLE that look like women’s shoes! YAY! I will buy throught them again in the future!