Shoe Shopping

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Permalink Reply by Cheyenne Throckmorton on June 17, 2008 at 7:01pm

This reminds me of a story of when I was in about 7th grade. As it turns out by that time my feet had already hit size 12 which worried my Mom to great extents. We were living in Montana, where selection on anything much less shoes is rather limited. The absolute largest size you could find in the store at the time was indeed a 12.

My mother knew very well and definitely informed me that already at 5'10 with a size 12 foot meant that we were going to have to special order shoes, and that would be expensive.

Well, my little heart and my big feet knew that we could not be affording to special order me shoes to the snow capped peaks of Butte Montana, much less basketball shoes. So, I went to bed every night for weeks praying and praying for one thing.

"Please Lord, make my feet stop growing, so we can afford to keep feeding my family and so we don't have to ship off my little brother to Timbuktu".

Wait. Maybe I wanted to ship him to Timbuktu. In any case, I got what I prayed for and to this day I still wear a size 12, sometimes a 13 as I've piled on an extra 100+ pounds and squished my foot down far into my shoes.

Needless to say, its good to see there are getting to be more options for people and there shoes out there. Now if they only shipped more annoying little brothers to Timbuktu.

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Permalink Reply by Kate O'Neill Rauber on June 22, 2008 at 8:46pm

I wanted to let you know about a tall clothing site I own: www.katclothing.com. As a 6'2 chick with a size 14 shoe, I was frustrated by the lack of contemporary tall clothing options out there. So, I started katclothing.com. We have inseams up to 37-inches and cute shoes (including Kathryn Kerrigan) in sizes 9-14. I hope you check it out. KAT

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Permalink Reply by 'stina on December 24, 2008 at 5:50pm

I wear an 11 and it is a quest to find something fun, funky or sexy. I don't get it. It seems like there are a lot of women who wear larger sizes. It doesn't seem reasonable that stores often have only one or two size 10s if they even get those let alone an 11. Why do they tell you that they only have a size seven? I think they should be trained some other way to tell me that my size is not available. I can't try a size 7 as an option no matter how large they run. c'mon people!

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Permalink Reply by Lorne Herrema on January 20, 2009 at 10:09pm

i am starting to wish my feet stopped growing at size 12. i am on a constant search for size 16 shoes anyone have any ideas on where to find something other than a basketball shoe? i got lucky once and found a pair of skateboarding shoes at winners but nothing in that last year

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Permalink Reply by Alex Kuehl on February 19, 2010 at 9:53am

Check out http://www.zappos.com as well as http://www.eastbay.com. These are stores where I buy my shoes. I am a size 17 wide.

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Permalink Reply by Roy Parkin 'Owner of TallGenez' on January 21, 2009 at 2:37pm

Kathryn Kerrigan is a fabulous and very smart business woman, She is lending me her designer shoe collection for all of my Tall models to wear in my TallGenez LA launch show in April. check out her site, couture shoes, very unique. www.kathrynkerrigan.com

Roy

www.tallgenez.com

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Permalink Reply by Cheyenne Throckmorton on January 21, 2009 at 7:22pm

Kathryn is great! She was all about The Tall Street Journal when it first launched and we had but a handful of members. I told her to wait and give it some time to grow. Guess thats my reminder to let her know that the time is here and its growing now that its been redesigned, the SEO has started rooting in Google and of course that the Tall Genez Team is on the scene. She'll be great to have as part of our community here.

Glad she is doing the shoes for your show Roy.

Not sure if she does mens shoes though Lorne. We need to look into who does do classy big mens shoes.

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Permalink Reply by Mandy Turton on July 11, 2010 at 1:35pm

Hello, I am going to New York in February 2011 and while there I am hoping to shop for some shoes and or boots. Do you have any information about shops that stock larger size ladies shoes (not online). I am a UK size 10 which I think is a 13 in USA sizes. Would love to hear from anyone who might have some information for me. It will be my first visit to the USA, my husband is taking me for my 50th birthday which occurs while I am there so any tips for good things to do, places to see, and places to eat would be great to hear, thank you, Mandy.

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