Anyone's feet getting bigger? I was always an 8 1/2 and am now always a 9.

Anne, my mother always teased that I didn't take my feet shoe shopping. As a child, I always decided the shoes were too small or too big after we got home.

My father sold shoes for a living and he taught me well about how to fit for shoes . It you get them to short they can hurt your feet and to large you can fall right out of them and you have to check your width . Sometimes when you get older your feet will widen some . Some shoes are cut smaller or larger . Sometimes you have to take a larger shoe . I use to wear a 6 1/2 A shoe and now I were a 7 M or a wide width shoe . The grasshopper shoes I take a 7 wide . A 7 1/2 shoe is too big for me .

Vandyke and bacon has good shoe too . I don't know if they have a web site , but SAS has a web site that you can find a shoe store in your state or town .

Renee

I can remember as a teenager walking miles in stiletto pointy-toe shoes, and now I'm paying for it. I have pinkie toes bent in and under my other toes and actually had to have surgery on one pinkie toe - the bone was so bent they had to remove it. Of course, years of being on my feet as a nurse didn't help. I don't even wear heels any more because I don't feel comfortable. I love wearing sandals, and so do my feet. I wear Clark's, Birkie's, and Teva's, when I can find them at the thrift store. I have found brand new, never worn Clarks and Tevas for $5 otherwise I couldn't afford them. I always go shoe shopping in the late afternoon when my feet are the biggest they're going to get that day. I have learned the hard way that trying on shoes early in the day doesn't work. I used to wear 6 1/2 but am up to an 8 - mostly because my feet are wider, and it's hard to find wide shoes that I like (or even wide shoes sometimes). If I'm lucky, I will find 7 1/2 or even 7 wides.

Princess, you asked me ages ago what "grey starr" is for the eyes..cauterac or catterac (?) spelling? in the eyes? Does that sound familiar? I am sure the spelling is all off..maybe even the word. I can´t think of what it is in English. The "grey starr" is a direct translation from the Swedish, "grå starr". I am going to have a lazer operation for my other eye next week actually.

Not exactly the thread where I should be talking about eyes

Feet, eyes, doesn't matter. Surgery on the eyes? Yikes. Yonuh, you probably bought the Clark's shoes I wore for an hour and did not take back to the store. I did not know that they had a 30 day "walking" guarantee. I am currently testing a pair Naturalizer flats. Testing means I am sitting in my rocking chair to see what pain develops. Yonuh, it sounds like you and I have the same feet! I too had bone removed when I had "hammer toe" surgery. More later! PL

humlan, let me know if you have any questions about your eyes. Hubby can help. Good luck with your surgery.

I've always had a very difficult time finding shoes that fit, period. Until a few years ago, I was 10 1/2 AAAA with AA heel. Now I've grown to 11 and "widened" all the way to AA. Still can't find anything that fits. Unfortunately, the brands I used to wear are not making narrow anymore, or if they do, it's by special order only, and I'm not going to order 20 pair of shoes to find the one that fits.

Plus, I have congenitally flat feet -- which have NEVER given a problem -- but I can't wear anything with more than a very gentle arch, or it feels like a large rock in the soles of my foot.

I wear socks with everything.

S.A.S yes, Anne. I have a pair of white sandals I found at a thrift store a few years ago. And they are comfortable. I rarely buy new shoes at a shoe store but often find new shoes at thrift stores.