[lucizoe]

I'm too poor for my shoe-lust. Plus, you know, my enormous high-arched hobbit feet don't take well to cute shoes. Which blows innumerable goats, since my fashion sense - like my spidey sense - is keen and tingling.

I was shopping for new sneakers today. I've been living in birkenstocks for weeks now and I can't take it anymore. Too much walking. However, as usual, the little purple saucony sneakers I wanted do not exist in my size. Or the equivalent man-size. In fact, I couldn't get one.damn.pair in a men's 9. Is that weird or what? Does this store merely service the hipster nymphs and pixies of NYU? Like I'm not feeling out of place enough, apparently I need to find the big fat foot store. I just need to find the bag to put over my head...*rummages in boxes*

*sigh* Okay, rant over.

I love browsing zappos.com...I'm so loathe to buy anything, though. My experience has been that nothing ever fits my feet comfortably. I don't think I've ever owned a consistently cozy pair of shoes in my life. So, while, yes, those heels are a 10.5 wide and awful cute, they probably still won't fit.

Blah - I'm sorry this is so negative! I'm a bit depressed! Yay shoes! If you have small feet and can wear the cute ones, wear them and be fierce!!!

[txplumwine]

This is my first time in and I think I can help...a little! Tali, I would recommend looking at professional dance shoes - ballroom, character, salsa, etc. The better brands (particularly Capezio) are renowned for comfort and good support at the high end of their price point. I'm particularly looking forward to getting some of these (though perhaps in a lower heel) when I can justify it. Other brands will cover good-looking peep toes and sandals, believe it or not. Hope it's food for thought, at least.

Myself? I LURRRRVE shoes but have a weird relationship with them. I tend to over-buy and then alternate maybe two pairs. And over the last few years, I've had less luck as I wear a US 10W...so most of my shoes for the last few years have been...black flats.

If I had my druthers, I'd wear mostly mid-heeled baby-doll styles (especially Mary Janes), criss-cross quarter-strap sandals, and skimmer-styled sneakers. Unfortunately, my options jump from Payless to Naturalizer pretty quickly, and I'm only just getting to where I can think about buying $60-plus shoes again.

Not to mention that the stuff I love the most doesn't often come in my size at all. If it was just a 10, I'd have a much better time...it's the W that kills me. I can't tell you how happy I was to discover that the Footlight comes in W.