04-09-2013, 12:40 AM
So I just got curious and made a new outline of my foot and measured it... my foot has gotten somewhere around a quarter inch longer than last time I bought shoes and HASN'T gotten any wider. In fact... oddly enough it seems to have narrowed! WTH? According to the new measurements I should now fit PERFECTLY into size 9 medium/regular. Actually with some spare room on the sides. So I pull out my Liz Claiborne's which used to have some toe room but I'd slightly distend the sides... Not anymore. They are, in fact, just as predicted: perfect fit with some room on the sides. So yeah. WTH? I mean. I realize that our feet CAN keep growing, and so getting longer doesn't seem strange, but getting narrower? How's that possible? This isn't the first time I've observed my feet narrowing either. When I first started wearing women's shoes I could've sworn my feet used to be even wider yet!
Well... Whatever. This'll make finding women's shoes even easier yet for me. Funny enough in men's I'd still need wides. 8 wides now... Instead of 7.5 double wides or clown shoes aka 8.5 wides with entirely too much extra toe space because it was the only way to get CLOSE to the width because you just try and find a men's 7.5 let alone extra wide. Even then they were never actually wide enough... they pinched at the widest part of my foot very slightly, but 9 wides would've been even more ridiculous on me!
Well... That's OK though. I should actually be able to find cycling shoes now. They're made in a strange unisex way such that they're wider than a men's would usually be at a given length to accommodate the shape of a woman's foot while still accommodating the shape of a men's foot. But they weren't wide ENOUGH and very very few brands carry "wide" cycling shoes.
Well... Whatever. This'll make finding women's shoes even easier yet for me. Funny enough in men's I'd still need wides. 8 wides now... Instead of 7.5 double wides or clown shoes aka 8.5 wides with entirely too much extra toe space because it was the only way to get CLOSE to the width because you just try and find a men's 7.5 let alone extra wide. Even then they were never actually wide enough... they pinched at the widest part of my foot very slightly, but 9 wides would've been even more ridiculous on me!
Well... That's OK though. I should actually be able to find cycling shoes now. They're made in a strange unisex way such that they're wider than a men's would usually be at a given length to accommodate the shape of a woman's foot while still accommodating the shape of a men's foot. But they weren't wide ENOUGH and very very few brands carry "wide" cycling shoes.