I HAAAATE shoe shopping.
Why? I have super weird feet.
Okay, so my feet are tiny (A uk size 4), very wide (a uk G width which is like the widest they bloody go) with a high instep and NO arch at all (seriously my feet are like very fat pancakes). I also have curled toes (it's heriditary, a lot of my family have them) and a muscle imbalance in my right foot which when I was a kid meant my foot twisted inward and as an adult means the ligaments are overstretched on one side and veeeeery sensitive so anything, anything at ALL pressing on them (like say, arch support) causes them to twinge and then oh hey, suddenly I can't walk because each step feels like the tendons in my foot are gonna literally snap.
It's genuine agony and I have many times had to walk on the side of my foot, screwing up my ankle in the process, just to get home.
Anyway, because of all this, it means 98% of all shoes flat out cannot and will not ever fit me.
Super cute girly shoes which I kinda like aesthetically but really aren't ME at all because i'm not girly in the slightest? Ooooh hell no. Heels? Heck no.
Even boots which are often wider fit? Nooope.
Last time I went shopping for shoes I no joke, found literally ONE pair in M&S I could fit (which were fashion suede which means not waterproof because women's shoes are fricken stupid) and 2 pairs in Clarks they had to go rummage about in the back to even FIND.
of 4 shoe shops, I found THREE pairs of shoes I could even get my foot INTO.
so yeaaaah.
Guys shoes I can't wear because they don't go down to size 4, because guys don't have tiny dang feet and shoes for teenagers/kids are often too narrow as WELL. *headdesk*
so basically i'm stuck wearing sandals, the TWO pairs of boots I own that actually fit me and a pair of converse which cause my foot to bleed but then so do my boots because my feet are dumb.
(seriously my little toe rams into the toe beside it and somehow, despite having like no nail on it, it wears a hole in the other toe and then I take my sock of and oh hey, there's blood all over my foot. Great.)
So yeah. Shoes man.
Though i admit, Converse and their colourful shoes I appreciate the heck outta and I do aesthetically LIKE shoes. I mean I can see a pair of boots and go "ooo those are some sexy dang boots" but I know I can't wear them.
So alas, I cannot indulge a shoe obsession. I just don't have the feet for it.
I wear my shoes literally to destruction. I mean I had a pair of boots i'd had for years and I kept getting them repaired over and over and then finally the shoe repair guy was all "look, I can't fix these, you NEED to buy new shoes" and no joke, i nearly cried.
All "NOOOOO!"
Another time I walked to tesco (supermarket) in bare feet because all three pairs of shoes I owned chose that day to BREAK on me. So I had to walk barefoot to the supermarket and hope I could find some shoes that I could wear at least temporarily. I found some sandals which were pretty comfy actually, wore them for about a year before they broke on me. hahah.
So yeah, once I find a pair of shoes that fit you're prying them from my cold dead hands! rargh!