Happy feet!

@ConAndLibrarian Don’t worry, you’ve got a long way to go before you have to call it a problem.

@moondrake And there’s a happy dog!

@moondrake

/giphy bear feet

@capguncowboy poor little teddy bear.

@tinamarie1974 I too prefer bare feet. I was digusted with myself a few months ago when I realized that I have about a dozen pair of shoes now. Granted some, like my Duck boots, I’ve had as far back as the late-1980s, but what a shoe hog I’ve become.

@mollama dont be upset, embrace it! I try to justify my shoe problem because I have big feet (size 11), which makes it hard to find shoes when I need them. So for YEARS now, if I find a cute pair that do not accentuate the size of my feet I go ahead and buy them. Eventually I come across an outfit that will.go with them and viola, I have a nice outfit!

@tinamarie1974 yay for size 11’s!

@moonhat we are a very exclusive group

@tinamarie1974 I’ve been looking for a new pair of dressy women’s shoes for over a year. I wear a 12-13. Occasionally I’ve squeezed into an 11 sandal… But not very comfortably.

@RiotDemon so I kinda look EVERYWHERE, but a few sure thing places would be zappos.com, nordstrom rack, 6pm, Torrid and less fancy would be payless. Good Luck!!

@tinamarie1974 unfortunately I’m so picky with shoes that I don’t bother buying them online unless I’ve bought the same exact shoe before. Never heard of 6pm, and there’s no Nordstrom here. I didn’t realize torrid carried shoes. I’ll have to check them out. I’ve had ok luck with Payless in the past but lately the shoes I want stop at size 11… The 12s and 13s at the store here are usually high heels that I can’t wear, or the tread safe shoes you’d see cooks or medical staff wear sometimes. I did find a pair of knee high boots a few years ago at Lane Bryant.

Luckily, I don’t dress up much, so I can get away wearing men’s sneakers/flip flops most of the time.

@RiotDemon well shoot. It is a little pricy, but check out zappos. Shipping is 100% free in BOTH directions, so if you get them and they are not exactly what you wanted, returns are free of cost and hassle. 6pm is an Amazon company as fyi

@RiotDemon If you have a Catherine’s near you, they also carry shoes in large and wide. TJ Maxx and Marshall’s sometimes carry 12-13, but they go fast. They always have 11s.

@OldCatLady no Catherine’s. Never seen the bigger sizes at Marshall’s or TJ… I guess they got bought before I found them.

@OldCatLady I never see 11’s or larger at TJ or Marshalls any more, lots of everyrhing else, but unless I cut my toes off it does me no good! :p

@RiotDemon @tinamarie1974 This morning at TJ Maxx. There were others.

@OldCatLady cool, except I wouldn’t be caught dead in those.

@OldCatLady not my style either…but my TJ NEVER has anything over a 10…Im kinda pissed

@tinamarie1974 Dunno what that picture looks like to you, but here, it’s just blurry and dark. I mean, I can see there’s shoes there…

Take another picture (I suggest jpeg or gif; maybe you’ll have better luck). Here’s an example:

@Shrdlu Well phuf. Ill try again when I get home. Its about 100 pairs of everything from flip flops to stilettos. It is my favorite part of my closet

@tinamarie1974 I can kinda see some of your shoes and I don’t see any purple.

“What’s a matter with you, girl?!?”

@Barney haha, there are some pirple shoes, but i dont think you can see them in the shot. Ill take somw special purple shots

@tinamarie1974 Holy Crap!

@mfladd

Your are startled because the poor thing has so few pairs of shoes?

I agree. She needs to get at least 5 times that many.

/giphy shoes

@mfladd my shoe size or my desire to have more shoes than Ms. Marcos? Lol

@tinamarie1974 why? what is your shoe size?

@mfladd 11

@tinamarie1974 Ok, this begs to ask - how tall are you?

@mfladd

@mfladd you misssed an earlier topic where I said I was a cross between Polly Pocket and Bozo the Clown! Lets just say those purple platforms make me about 5’4" -5’5" tall

@tinamarie1974

(I’m sorry

@mfladd its OK Im use to it. My family calls my feet barges. They think they are hi-lar-io-us!!

@CaptAmehrican Any purple?

@Barney nope. I don’t look good in purple.

@Cerridwyn Yeah, I take Alegria for my allergies, too.

@Barney http://www.alegriashoeshop.com/

you take Alegra
https://www.allegra.com/

@Cerridwyn No, I don’t. I have no allergies.

@Barney
/giphy silly goose

@Cerridwyn I’ve been called worse.

@Kidsandliz That’s what sucks about women’s shoes. You find a pair you like and there is no way to buy them again when they wear out. You have to immediately go back and buy up the remaining stock. If there are no more in your size, tough shit.

@Kidsandliz Those look an awful lot like some I saw at TJ Maxx this week. Also check Marshall’s.

@OldCatLady These are clark privos. There are some similar ones out there I have tried but so far I haven’t found any that fit as well. Checking ebay too but they are at least 5 or 6 years old so likely a lost cause. I will check though those stores here. Thanks.

Okay, I may have lied. I might have dress-up shoes for special occasions.

@KDemo I saw those, but it looks like the physics are off on them…

@mikibell - Someone said they were perfect for fall-ing.

@KDemo oy!

@KDemo only $2500.
http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/36948/1/so-saint-laurent-have-released-stiletto-rollerskates-ysl-anthony-vaccarello

@RiotDemon - And just think, you get two shoes for that price! Deal!

@KDemo 2 for Tuesday deal?

@f00l - Très cute!

@KDemo

I like the minimalist ones best.

These are some summer choices.

Simmer here being defined as every situation where no weather event, social event, or other type of event pressures me into wearing any less comfortable style of footwear.

@f00l The space between my toes hurts just looking at these.

@sammydog01 I bought a pair of sandals very like those at Costco a couple of months ago.

@sammydog01 Yep, those are ugly shoes, but as long as they are comfortable, that’s what counts.

@sammydog01 I actually don’t mind them. Is that weird?

@sammydog01

Marie Antoinette style

???

@mikibell Hey look, this picture is right side up!
/giphy clapping hands

@Barney yes, I downloaded it and reloaded it Not as lazy as normal today!

@RiotDemon All these shoes are for statues. Right? Because how you could ever walk in them without breaking an ankle I do not know.

@Kidsandliz let’s ask @shrdlu or @mrspavlov. I think they both can pull these off.

@Kidsandliz and @RiotDemon I used to walk in heels all the time. I wore heels every single day to work, and I often spent part of the day at a dead run, including up a flight of stairs (no, I never, ever attempted to run down them). My heels (in those days) were either three or four inch heels. The photographs of shoes that I had in another thread (and that went to charity) were shoes that were no different than ones I worked in.

I started wearing heels when I was 12 (only two inch heels, to my terrible mortification, and I was in three inch heels by the end of the school year).

Walking in heels is a skill just like anything else is. The really important thing is to remember to take them off, and to walk flat footed (preferably bare foot, if possible), for at least an hour or so. Otherwise… (drum roll, please) you will end up like my aunt Beverly, who had to search out bedroom slippers with heels, because she’d shortened her Achilles tendon.

I used to be unconcerned with size (as long as they were not too small) because there were insert things that you could put in the toe, and then wear them. My foot is size 8, but I’ve owned up to size 11 (because, OMG, they were really cute).

It’s a skill that needs to die out, though. Forget about walking in heels. Learn some math. Math is good.

@Shrdlu instarted in 4th grade because I was already in a womans size 8. I wholeheartedly agree that one must balance to keep your muscles happy. I do, however still wear my heels to work. It is the ony waymy co-workers will see me eye to eye

@Shrdlu My kid, in 4th grade, wore woman’s size 5 heels we found in a used store for dressup, to the grocery store. After about 10 minutes of being there she wanted to go barefoot because her back hurt LOL. Told her in the shopping cart or keep wearing them. She wore them around 5 more minutes and decided humiliation of being in the cart at her age was worth it. Of course now at 25 she wears heels with no complaint.

And yes math is good. I have taught statistics on occasion. Other science is good too. Physics got me out of a ticket - used that to get out of a run a red light ticket (which I didn’t run and cop was at right angles to me anyway with bushes in the way so couldn’t even see when I crossed the line). The cop agreed I wasn’t speeding, told me what the lag was while both lights were red… and so for me to have been where he said I was I would had had to be doing 42 point something or other mph in a 25 zone around a corner banked the wrong way. Yup would have been in the cement retaining wall at 42mph.

The cop, judge and prosecutor all needed me to explain to them the math a few times and then the prosecutor went on the internet to confirm I wasn’t using a “fake” formula. LOL So yes math, etc. is definitely good and I was rather pleased with myself for thinking to use science to defend myself in court when I challenged the ticket.

@Shrdlu

I did the opposite. Tried to “dress down” in school.

But no one wore serious heels to school anyway (public Jr H & HS), not even the very socially powerful popular crowd, or the well-connected heiresses who wore flats and near-flats that had been purchased at N-M (there were a few who dressed so; expensive N-M bills would have been pocket change to their families)

Tho this was no counterculture school.
Perhaps fashions had just changed that much in a few years.

My “clothing resistance” caused endless endless serious wars with my parents. I got screamed at. Considering that I was, during those years, a “good kid” (as far as they knew anyway), this seems odd in retrospect.

I didn’t dress horribly or anything back then. I was neat and clean and decent and not particularly rebellious or clearly inappropriate in clothing choices. Just rather minimalist. Why did they care so much?

Family emotional patterns are so intimately familiar, and yet so weird.

I did learn a little math tho.

@f00l You know why family is so good at pushing your buttons? Because they installed them.

@moondrake

Yeah. And that stuff can get passed down to one generation after another.

In my generation’s case, tho, it stopped. Not that we were perfect as adults. Or always even acceptable as adults. I have never even begun to master the art of it. Or sufficiently discipline myself to it.

But the crazy fights and accusations directed at the next generation over nothing … That stopped.

@Shrdlu I could have written your post except I never had a pair 3 sizes too big. I had perfectly matched heels for every outfit. My advertising job kept me standing or walking all day. I had a beautiful stride in 4" heels. Now I have titanium knees and a slew of Birkenstocks, Vionics, Skechers GoWalks. But still in perfectly matched colors.

@tinamarie1974 Pretty. Um, aren’t you afraid of falling off these and breaking your neck?

@Barney
A few years back there was a huge trend for teenage girls in Japan to wear very high strapped-on platform shoes.

There was an additional accompanying huge trend: an astonishing number of teenage girls with broken ankles. Usually they had either tripped badly, or fallen off their shoes.

@f00l I wouldn’t dare try to wear high platform shoes.

@Barney

I haven’t either. Too big a wuss.

/image “platform shoes”

@Barney nope not at all! I am REALLY short so it is the only way I can look “normal height”

@tinamarie1974 I’d rather have you short than to hurt yourself.

@Barney aaawwww thanks. So far so good though. Im assuming my knee surgery last week was untelayed to my heels :-p

@Barney @f00l platforms are actually way easier to walk in versus heels. I spent my entire evening on Halloween last year wearing my platform boots, decked out in grim reaper robes, and wearing wings that span about 12’. I didn’t fall once.

@RiotDemon Nope, nope, nope. Not that brave.

@Barney but you can feel tall! I’m around 6’2" with them on. That’s fun.

@RiotDemon You can feel tall walking on stilts, too.

@Barney oh now stilts ARE scary!!

@Barney I actually thought about these:
/image drywall stilts close-up

Or:
/image digitigrade stilts

@RiotDemon I would prefer those over platform shoes.

@Barney lol. The only reason I haven’t done those, is because I’m afraid of falling.

I gave up trying to get a good pic of the boots section. The closet was just too dark

@tinamarie1974

Re: (lots of footwear):

Attaway!

@tinamarie1974 and i dont know why they are sideways…they are right side up on my phone phuf

@tinamarie1974

If you have an iPhone, it autocorrects for the picture being uploaded sideways when you view the thread, so you can’t tell how the image will appear to other people.

You have to check it on another device. Preferably a non iOS device.

This is the best fix I found if uploading an image from an iOS device, but I can’t promise it will work:

Take pix in portrait mode.

Then turn phone to landscape mode by rotating the top of the phone to your left. (Counterclockwise as you view the rotating phone.).
(So that the bottom of the phone [home button] winds up next to your right hand)

Edit or create the post that will contain the uploaded pix without changing the orientation of the phone during this process.
Upload pix without changing the orientation of the phone.
Save new post or save the edit to previous post.
(IE phone stays in landscape mode with the bottom of the phone [or the home button] by your right hand during the entire time you open the post, upload the pix, and save the post).

I think this will usually make uploaded images appear rightside-up to everyone. Not sure tho.

@tinamarie1974 Yep, you’ve got a shoe problem.

@Barney

Too few?

Or too few purple?

/image “purple shoes”

@f00l Never enough purple shoes.

@tinamarie1974 doesn’t it bother you that there are three shoes in each section??? (yes, it bothers me!!!) I would alternate the direction of the shoes, so one is facing outwards, the other inwards… so 4 could fit in a box…
But that is me!!

@mikibell there are actually 4, one is hiding in the back of each cubby. You just cant see it, and yes three in a cubby would drive me crazy

@tinamarie1974 phhheeeww… now my mind can rest easier… thank you!

@mikibell sorry to cause you stress lol

@tinamarie1974 if that was the worst stress I had today, I would be lucky!!!

@f00l i think the issue is too few. There are soooo many more I need

@tinamarie1974

Exactly. Imelda was such an amateur.

/image shoes!

@tinamarie1974 Finally, and at long last, shoes! Not blurry, not too dark, and I can live with sideways. There’s lots of cute shoes in your closet. You may be in competition with my younger self. At my worst, it was more than 100, and no, I don’t know how much more, because who counts?

I still love them, though. I’m happy to see your collection, finally. :-}

@RiotDemon If I find a pair that I really like and feels good on my feet (I have narrow feet), I will go back and buy another pair or two (or three). I shoes.

@Barney Me too. I have a hard time finding shoes which are both comfortable, and not fugly or 'spensive. Pretty easy to find two out of three, but seldom a trifecta. When I do, I buy two or three pairs. Better still if there are color options, but that’s not requisite.