One of my bridesmaids has the most difficult feet in the world to find nice shoes for. She takes a size 5, but her feet are extremely wide and are off the scale of most shoe manufacturers. The only shoes she can find that fit her comfortably are orthopedic shoes which are nearly all flat, and are not glamorous at all. She is desperate to find lovely shoes that will look good with a bridesmaid dress but will not cripple her. Any tips?
CommentAuthorFaye x
I have the same problem, im a size five but my feet are really wide so usually have to uy a six but then they flop off the back. Have you tried New look, they do a wide fitting shoe range and some of them have even been too wide for me so you might just find something x x x x
CommentAuthorBridezilla
Thanks for the tip Faye. I will tell her to have a look in New Look. If anyone else has more tips that would be really helpful.
CommentAuthorMrs Q - Weegie
evans? they have some nice sparkly silver kitten heels in just now xx
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CommentAuthorBridezilla
Thanks "Little Miss Weegie". Do you know from experience whether they do extra wide fittings?
I have width EEE feet which are off the scale for most shoe shops - but if I get the next size up I look like I'm wearing someone elses shoes. I've managed to get C width (average width) bridal shoes, and I've been breaking them in by wearing thick socks in them for minimum an hour a day in the house - it's uncomfortable at first but it does work. I've also got some surgical spirit which you can dab on the inside of the shoe at the widest points, then if you wear them with your socks till it dries you can loosen the leather which makes your shoes wider. I've also seen tips which recommend putting a ziplock bag of water into a shoe (double bag it to prevent leakage!) and put them in the freezer till the water has frozen - when you take the ice out the shoe will have expanded a little - but don't try this on satin/lace shoes as it can damage them.
So - short answer, you can get her normal or average wide fit shoes and ask her to break them in a few months before the wedding!
CommentAuthorBridezilla
There's some tips there I'd never heard of before! These would definitely be worth thinking about if we cannot find shoes that fit properly to start with. Obviously, finding shoes that fit properly to start with would be preferable, as it seems wrong to have to force shoes to be a different shape than they were made. Thanks for the tips so far though...keep them coming if anybody has any more useful information to share :)
CommentAuthor*Kat B*
Try finding nice shoes with a kitten heel for someone with size 8/9 feet - it was difficult but bay of e pulled through lol
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CommentAuthorBridezilla
Hmmm, that sounds like a nightmare. Well done on pulling it off.
CommentAuthor*Kat B*
to top it off my sister wasn't the most easy to please, she wanted heels but as she's 5ft11 odd and i'm not even 5ft6 didn't want her to feel too uncomfortable with high heel then she has wide feet and big feet lol I got my shoes of bay of e as well saw them in the shop and after p&p i'd actually saved over £15 :D
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CommentAuthorMrs Q - Weegie
bridezilla evans is a shop that specialise in clohing n shoes for bigger girls :) they usually all come in a variety of widths xx
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CommentAuthorRockabilly chick
Isnt there an advert on TV for a company that do shoes for wider feet? I cant remember the name but remember seeing the advert and its an online store.....Hotter? maybe....
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CommentAuthorBridezilla
Ah right - I didn't realise that Evans is specialised in that. I never shop there. Thanks for the info Little Miss Weegie.
CommentAuthorBridezilla
Rockabilly Chick - yes I think she knows about that brand, but they don't seem to do any shoes that would be suitable for a BM, unfortunately.
CommentAuthorRockabilly chick
Awww thats a shame. Are there no other online companies? There must be somewhere. Even if its in America? xxxxxxxxxxx
CommentAuthorBridezilla
The problem is that the sizing is different in America, and does not translate consistently with EU or UK sizes. Also, the postage to Europe costs a lot and it's not that easy to send them back if they don't fit. There are quite a lot of online companies selling shoes that they claim to be wider, but usually these are not even wide enough, and the main problem is that they just don't really have much that would appeal to ladies under 70, never mind something that would look nice with a BM dress. It's time they started making shoes to fit real feet, and not expecting people to force their feet into badly fitting shoes (rant over).
CommentAuthorRockabilly chick
Its a total pain isnt it. Its not something I've had problems with in the past. There should be more options for shoe sizes though for sure! I am a 6 and a half but most fashion store dont have half sizes either so my feet generally get squeezed into a size 6 :-/
Hope you can find something
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CommentAuthorx Disney Princess x
I think next do some wide fit wedding shoes x
CommentAuthorJill
viva la diva do wide fitting too hun x
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CommentAuthorvicki
Have you tried the shoe tailor. They do wider fitting shoes up to eee or elegant steps do some nice wide fitting shoes
CommentAuthorLesleys1
JD Williams have some beautiful wide fitting shoes. I bought a pair of sandals to wear at my sisters wedding and they were very reasonably priced.
CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
You might want to try dance shoes. My dance teacher recommended them for my London reception when I broke my toe. They much more comfortable than traditional shoes as they are designed to be worn for long periods of time and are padded around the ball of teh foot (where most of us find the pain when wearing high heels). The beauty of them is they come in very narrow to very wide fittings!!! Oh and for any brides out there that are thinking about it, they're cheaper than bridal shoes too!
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CommentAuthorBridezilla
Dance shoes...now there's a good idea! I never thought of that. Thanks for that tip HeatherG. Shoe Tailor and Viva La Diva are shops that we did find. They didn't have anything suitable at the time, but it might be worth another look. JD Williams is a new one to me, and so is Elegant Steps. I will have a look see. Thanks for all the great tips ladies :)
CommentAuthorBridezilla
Hmmm, Elegant Steps does have a handful of wider shoes which is great. But, what I notice with these shops is that as soon as you go up in width, the heel height goes down. Why is this? It's not like people with wide feet are going to blow over if they wear high heels, right? You'd think they'd be more stable on heels than people with average or narrow feet. I just don't get it.
On the JD Williams site they have some Viva La Diva shoes which look promising though. There's still 9 months to go so I'm still feeling positive we'll find the right shoes eventually. Any more tips are welcome...we're on a mission!!!
CommentAuthorRockabilly chick
Good shout on the dance shoes Heather! I was considering character shoes for my bms but cant find red ones :-(
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CommentAuthorBridezilla
Ok, here's an update based on the tips given...my BM moseyed on over to the JD Williams site and found some great shoes, WITH high heels in an EEE fitting for 40 quid. We're not sure if they will be the right ones for the big day as the colour scheme isn't finalized yet, but black & gold goes with a lot of stuff anyway.
The other thing she jumped on were the after party ballerina shoes. They were only 12 quid a pair and came with platinum sequins or black sequins and an E or EEE fitting. Girls, get on over there if you need something like this. Apparently wide ones are really hard to find, and certainly not for this price.
Finally, she surfed a bunch of dance shoes sites and found a ton of shoes in wider fittings that would look great with a BM dress. Now she's spoilt for choice, LOL.
Thanks so much for the tips...you ladies rock!
CommentAuthorBridezilla
Another update - the shoes arrived. The after party ballerina shoes are definitely wider than average, but the Viva La Diva high heels in EEE fitting don't even come close :( They are 7.5 cm at the widest point, which is 2.5 cm too narrow!!! What a disappointment. It seems that shoe manufacturers do not realise there is such a big gap in the market for attractive high heeled shoes for ladies with VERY wide feet.
I think someone needs to start a campaign to enlighten the shoe manufacturers that they are missing a big opportunity. Does anybody here also have huge difficulty finding nice shoes because of the width fitting (or know someone else who does)? Does anyone agree that it would be worth the effort to start making a fuss about this and try and build awareness in the industry?
CommentAuthorvicki
It's not just wide fitting shoes that are a problem to get. I'm having big problems getting high heels for 1 of my bridesmaids as she takes a size 1 and all the shoes i can get are really expensive
CommentAuthorBridezilla
Wow, that's tiny! I can imagine the only shoes she can find in her size are children's shoes. Have you tried looking in specialist child pageant stores? I don't know if those kids wear high heels, but they generally dress much older than their actual age. It wouldn't surprise me if they do special child sized heels.
CommentAuthorBridezilla
I just did a quick search on "high heels children" and quite a few promising sites popped up, including Ama zon which had some sequinned shoes with 3cm heels. It might be worth a look.
CommentAuthorBridezilla
Oh, apparently Accesorize and Next do some that might be suitable. Apparently they were criticised in September for encouraging children to wear heels. I will post the link to the news article on my wall. There are photos of some of the shoes in it.
CommentAuthormunchkinpie
@vatkins - try TK Maxx and Dancewear shops
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CommentAuthorBridezilla
Apparently there is also a shop called Priceless that has a Tall and Small range which is aimed at women with very small feet. There is another link on my wall to a news article about this, with a photo of a 9 year old girl wearing some sky high stilettos.
CommentAuthorBridezilla
Priceless has a website which I will post on my wall. They also have another brandname called Petit Feet that you can reach via their main site. They have a couple of hundred pairs of heeled shoes for size 1 feet. This looks hopeful - maybe you can find what you are looking for there.
CommentAuthorvicki
Thanks for that i'll have a look still got plenty of time fortunately as we're not getting married till 2013
