Shoes
Shoe shopping for me is normally a chore. I have long thin feet (11E) and shoes are not often manufactured to suite such a rare shape. On Saturday, I ventured into Marks and Spencer to investigate their range of work shoes. I fully expected the usual seven or eight shop trawl and to end the day with something that fitted, but was not of a style which I would have if given any choice. I was, however, gobsmacked when the first pair of shoes I selected fitted. I put them on and walked around and experienced no ill effects whatsoever! Hedging my bets I tried on another pair, and these didn’t fit nearly so well, so I returned to the orginal pair and purchased them. Less than half an hour of shoe shopping and I had a shiney new pair of black slip ons. I have been waring them for two days now and I don’t even have a “new shoe blister”.
As if this wasn’t enough, I visited Tk Max next and, although fitting wasn’t quite so straight forward, and Libby and I have slightly contrasting views on what casual shoes should look like, I left within a similar time scale with a pair of blue suede (corny I know!) spoons which suited both our tastes.
I’m intreguiged now as to what has caused such a change in the shoe shape market. Is it me or them? I dare say I shall never know!