(This will become an ongoing attempt to chronicle my life by my feet, or rather, what was on them at the time.)
My shoe obsession may have originated sometime during junior high when I realized that all the Smart Young Girls in our dusty corner of the world didn’t run around on SIZE NINE FEET. The evidence of that rule existed in all the shoe stores in the surrounding three counties, which only offered nurses shoes, orthopedic grandma shoes, cowboy boots and flip flops at that size. Oh, and saddle shoes. So, saddle shoes it was, five days a week, for the entire school year. And saddle shoes WERE NOT COOL. The sight of them still makes me break out in acne.
April 12, 2008 at 11:28 am
I love this idea…and I empathize. When I was in highschool, everyone wore 6s or at most 7s. I felt like Big Foot.
April 12, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Oh,Jane, PLEASE post your life in shoes. I’d love the company!
April 19, 2008 at 7:10 am
[...] such things became important, there WERE no shoe options for girls with size nine feet. (See my saddle shoes entry below.) Mother made sure I knew it was MY FAULT that I couldn’t find anything but old-lady [...]
March 4, 2009 at 7:06 am
Dear Mismeta, I relate. Sort of. I DID manage to find shoe mail order catalogs in the back of fashion magazines (especially Seventeen magazine…eg. the FBS catalog selling Capezio street shoes that were beautiful and all sizes…ahhh! a new reason to save that babysitting money!) and in addition there were mail order catalogs selling shoes for “tall girls” which offered a great selection. Then I learned that many top fashion models wore shoes sizes 9, 10, and 11 and I went around announcing THAT to everybody. LOL But THEN I found out in my senior year that my mom was buying shoes too long for my feet because my feet were wide. When I changed over to a C-Width shoe I THEN wore an 8 and 1/2 instead of the 9′s and 10′s (my wicked stepsister called my feet “gunboats”) my mom had me floating in. Naturally, later during college, I became a shoe fanatic with a fab shoe collection. To top it all off, my day was made one day in an elevator when someone turned to me and said, “How can someone so tall as you have such small feet?” LOL