[Market-farming] workshoes

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Thu May 21 17:33:38 EDT 2009


On May 21, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Curtis Millsap wrote:

> My brother turned me on to Timberland Pros for work boots.  Steel 
> toed, but more comfortable than any other pair of shoes I have owned.  
> Expensive, in the range of $140, but last time I went shoe shopping, I 
> couldn't find anything else that felt anything like it.

I can't wear steel toes, because I spend a lot of time on my knees; the 
foot position required causes the steel plate to dig into the top of 
the toes. Ouch.

Red Wing doesn't make shoes or boots to fit me any longer, though they 
used to. Hardly anybody does. I have a wide foot, including wide toes 
-- my toes don't taper, and I'm unwilling to do what many women wind up 
doing and mutilate them into tapering by bending the little ones over. 
However, my feet are only moderately long for a woman, and too short 
for the smallest size in many men's styles.

What has come closest to fitting me is usually a men's 7, 7 1/2, or 8 
(depending on style and company) EE width; but these are almost always 
too wide in the heel. (Women's sizes, even those labeled "wide", are 
almost always too narrow in the toes, and often even too narrow in the 
ball of the foot.) Narrow heel and wide toe is common enough that it 
used to have a name: combination last. Many companies used to make some 
styles in combination last sizes. I don't know any that still do, but 
there may be somebody, somewhere.

I don't like sandals for other than light work (my toes don't like 
rocks, which I have lots of; and I want more protection and more 
support for rototiller work -- yes I know boots won't protect me from 
the blades! but rocks fly sometimes); but something that breathes would 
be great for summer.

Any suggestions? (oh yes, I am currently very short on money . . . )

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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