Look at these babies. I know what you’re thinking:
"They are perfect, Chili. You are so lucky that your feet are exactly as wide as they are long. Those toes! That has to be the eighth wonder of the world that they are all exactly the same length! You are a beautiful footed lady, Chili."
Yet it’s ridiculously hard to find shoes to fit these fantastic feet. In most cases if you just sell me the box the shoes came in I consider the day a success.
For two years my dad, his wife, and my brother have been telling me to buy Chaco sandals. They expounded on the virtues of the adjustable strap and the perfect arch support. They told of easy care and washability. The first year I rebuffed their advances. The second year I warmed a little and spent the rest of the year considering the Chacos. I decided I would most definitely buy them on my first day of vacation in Colorado this year.
I’m sure you cannot imagine my utter disappointment when I tried on the shoes and found that an 8 looked like a summer clown shoe (because my toes are so short they made the shoes look ridiculously long) and a 7 was not wide enough for my elephant feet. What? How could this be? I had debated and thought and fought with myself about whether to actually spend the money on new shoes when I had a perfectly good pair of $5 flip-flops. Now that I had allowed myself this one indulgence the shoes DID NOT FIT? Oh, the humanity.
Husband felt terrible for me and promptly took me to a shop that was selling Halloween decor and bought me copius amounts of the stuff to take away the sting. Good man, no?
At the end of the trip, my dad took me to the only shoe store he and his wife will go to: Phelps in Longmont, CO. These people know what they are doing; the gentleman who owns the store is some sort of foot fet!sher expert. The lady who helped us told us the problem was that I did not try on a 7 Wide. She brought me a pair of 7W Chacos and voila! Perfect shoes for perfect feet. They are heaven.
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Poor baby. My “friend” who has toes just like yours always made fun of my long ugly toes because they weren’t cute. Today I will be thankful for my 8.5 B feet regardless of the toe situation.
I’m going to tell DYM that you stole her foot-photo idea. You’re busted!
Can you imagine if you had the the Healy bunion too!! I was the lucky one to get that gene. But luckily (??) my feet are extremely long so the bunion isn’t quite as noticable.
very very cute.
Oh my, Chili, how did my daughter inherit your feet? When she was baby only Stride Rite has shoes for her – $40 a pop. I still have to special order her dress shoes from them – however, I don’t know that they’ll have any sizes for her anymore. Tennis, sandals, and flip flops I can get by with at “normal” stores…but I don’t know what I’m going to do about her dress shoes for this next winter. So, I turn to you for direction…where do I get the child shoes!!!???!!!
Envy over here. Envy over your perfect feet and equally as perfect sandals. I have yet to find a store here in Vegas which carries them for my rulers. I’ll have to stick to Birks for now.
Thanking God that I were a normal size six.
Curse your cute little manicured toes though. I crush your precocious little head! (Crush, Crush, Crush)
They are perfect toes. I dare say I love them.
I just had that uneasy feeling you get when you drive by a familiar spot and see a vehicle exactly like yours already parked there. I mean you know it’s not you, cause you’re you … but it’s odd all the same.
Anyhoo, that’s what I thought when I saw your painted little piggies. Except that my toes while short also curl. If I look straight down at them I only see the nail of the big toe. Between that and a size 10 shoe … I HATE summer sandle shopping. In fact if it wasn’t for the chicken and goose crap covering our little piece of ‘paradise’ I’d be barefoot all summer.
I have not-so-little square feet myself. I don’t remember which of my girls shares my unfortunate foot characteristics, but I do remember seeing square feet on the ultrasound and laughing like crazy.
i LOVE my chacos! i usually wear danskos, but i needed shoes i could wear in the river.
you’re funny! chase sent me!