Re: Sharing my blue set

Jewelry for an outfit I do, but shoes to go with one outfit? Actually, I've been know to buy shoes I don't even like, if only they'll fit! I probably have a dozen pair of shoes. Half I can wear for a couple hours. The other half include the few boots, sandals, and shoes that fit.

Tina (or is that poor Tina)

Do you have a problem with your feet? I do, even though I'm not that long in years. I've had feet problems since my late 20's and only buy quality shoes. Even if they are ugly, they wear well and I can now walk for hours when before I couldn't walk two minutes. Ariats are great, but expensive. You can also get good shoes from Natulizer that have eurosoles in them. Those are the ultimate!

Thank you J! A sales clerk at the bead store helped me to find them. They were the only ones in the store that matched the large bead! There were only 12 of them left, so I bought them all. That's why I didn't use more of them in the necklace. I wanted a bracelet and earrings to match.

Oh, how I WISH that I could have more shoes! I have wide feet, and consider myself lucky to find anything that fits that isn't too horribly long. (picture 39 yr old woman tripping up the street)...I did get lucky the other day at Famous Footwear though. They actually had more than one pair of shoes in the store that fit. Too bad I had already been to the bead shop and could only afford one pair. Lol...does that make me a true beader or what?

I actually have wonderful, healthy feet. But very few women's shoes are wider than Ds (considered very wide), and I need E to EEE. And I have very high arches, such that even adjustable straps will often not go over them. Also my toes are short, so the vamp has to be short so the edge of the shoe on something like flats doesn't cut into the tendon of my big toe. That's just the requirement for getting them on my feet at all.

Even running shoes are hard to find. I have to be able to loosen the laces down to about 1" or 1 1/2" from the toe end of the shoe, and then even in the widest sizes, my feet generally spill over both sides of the sole. In men's shoes the heels are so big, my feet slop around and get blisters. In winter I can wear Air Force mukluks. Big ugly sloppy mukluks, but I can cinch them at the ankle so my heels stay in place, while leaving the foot loose -- and warm. Then bring isotoner slippers for indoors.

Naturalizers are too narrow. Oddly I have a pair of Cappezios that fit great. I had to abuse the strap to get it over my instep, but they are wide, round toed, low enough at the toes. And get this. They have steel shanks and vibram-type soles!!

Tina

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:32:33 -0400, Dr. Sooz wrote (in message ):

We welcome beginners. We love beginners. We don't bite them or say rude things about them and we are sweet little angels, just like our Mamas told us to be.

Once they've been here a while -- oh ho! Let the games begin!

Kathy N-V

I tend to look for one pair of shoes that will go with just about anything. Its a lot easier to find shoes for my wide feet than it used to be but to find inexpensive, comfortable and versatile shoes isnt. I have a pair now, on its last legs, comfortable beyond belief, slip ons, flats. They do for all but the dressier occasions in my life. Dressy occasions.. weddings ... hmmm... I think I might have a pair for those now...for summer. How many pairs of shoes do you have? Im doing ok with two sandals, clogs, two slip ons and a pair of duck boots, tho as I said the one pair of slips are just about gone. :-( Diana

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"Jewitch"> Great design, Laura! I love the vintage German glass you have with it.> I make lots of things to go with something specific, just like I buy> shoes to go with one out fit! Don't we all?>

Thanks, I'm very glad my feet are hard to fit instead of painful or unhealthy.

Tina

60! wow.. I may have owned 60 pairs in my lifetime. I might own that many too if A: I worked out of my house at a job that required more than blue jeans and t shirt. and B: they werent so expensive and C: they came in my width and the styles I like. I love shoes. Id be a shoe aholic if I could justify it. Maybe I could just come over and fondle your shoes? lol Diana

Ah, but by then, they're not beginners any more, are they?

(Everybody starts somewhere. You can't get from beginner to expert without -beginning-, can you?)

Deirdre (former beg>Once they've been here a while -- oh ho! Let the games begin!

I just got rid of about 7 pairs of black shoes. I pick them up at the thrift stores. These sat here for the whole time I have been here (except for 1 pair I wore on the b-day weekend,t he only nice shoes I brought, then realized they were a 1/2 size small...LOL!). I seem to get all black shoes, nothing else. I need other colors!

I have two "can't wear except for special occasions" shoes. 1 is a pair of governess style shoes (that's what the advertisement said), with 5" heels. Hehehe. The other is a pair of patent leather high heels, with the ankle strap that can be taken off if I wish, with like 4" heels.

I go wherever I am going in them, wear them for the 5 minutes to be "beautiful", then take them off and walk barefoot!!! LOL!

Mary