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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: waldenfarm AT sprintmail.com, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] comfortable field-worthy shoes
  • Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:57:47 -0400

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:15:46 -0400, you wrote:

>Judy,
>
>I feel your pain. I, too, have feet shaped outside the "norm." Mine are
>wide, flat and with a high instep. Most shoe brands just plain old don't
>fit- in any size or width.
>
>First- try men's boots. Just tell sales people in the store that there's
>no law against women buying mens shoes. (My wife had to straighten out one
>of these sex nazis when she wanted boots.) Mens boots tend to be wider and
>roomier.

This doesn't work for those of us with small but wide feet
(such as me). I wear a women's size 6 - the smallest men's
shoes I can ever find are WAY too long for me.

I can wear boy's shoes sometimes, though, if I can find what
I want in a boy's size.

Pat
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