The "BigFoot" Curse

Usually for women, shoe shopping is HEAVEN ON EARTH; however when you're a size 10 or more shoe shopping can be, well...discouraging. It's not like you can't find cute shoes, a shoe store has tons...it's just too bad that most of them aren't even in your size!
The truth of the matter is that stores usually only get as many of these bigger sizes as you can count on your fingers, making it very hard for us "big-footers" to find cute and affordable shoes.



My question is why aren't we catered to just as much as those women with smaller shoe sizes??? What is society's complex with small feet??

Through a little research, I found out that the average shoe size for an American woman is a size 8 W, which explains why most shoe stores are FILLED with size 8's! Crazy enough, a lot of people consider this big. I hate when I talk to a friend and they'll say, "I have big feet." I'll ask, "What size do you wear?" "8.5......". If you're saying that a size 8.5 is a big feet, what the hell are you trying to say about my shoe size??! I hate to say it, but I get offended almost as if somebody commented on my weight!

Also I found that 68% of American women wear from a size 6.5-9.5. What does that mean for us? We are a minority. Stores don't really feel the need to cater to us because most of the population doesn't wear these sizes. With that said, I still don't see why stores can't have more than 2 pairs of size 10's!

I tried researching why society has an obsession with small feet and the only thing I could find was that smaller feet are considered more feminine. I'm a size 10...and I'm definitely a female! Must vendors make us feel less of a woman by not carrying our shoe size?!



Even though we have bigger feet, it should not make us feel less pretty or womanly. Here's a list of some celebrities with the "BigFoot" curse:




These Hollywood celebrities have access to stylists (and enough money) to have whatever shoe they want in their size. Unfortunately, we don't. Even though I have a big shoe size, I still manage to find some cute shoes. I've actually noticed that the cheaper stores I go to, like Rainbow Apparel, tend to have bigger sizes in cute shoes. My favorite spot to buy shoes is Charlotte Russe (personally, I think the shoes are better than the clothes!), but I also like stores like Rainbow, DSW, even Payless! (don't sleep on it!)

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