Pile of shoes! Do you want them?
I always admired those fat women who could wear cool shoes. Maybe we couldn’t get the coolest clothes, but at least their shoes could be great.
Me, I was never so lucky. My shoe size was 10 1/2 WW, so pickings were slim. Even if I could find them, heels just made my feet hurt. When I was young, shoes in that size just didn’t exist, so I ended up wearing 11 or 11 1/2 M, and they didn’t fit right. No wonder I didn’t want to move around much! Thank goodness I could get sneakers in men’s sizes, and there wasn’t much difference.
Even though I only wear a few pairs, my husband thinks I’m first cousin to Imelda Marcos because I have so many pairs of shoes cluttering up the closet. Because getting shoes was such a trial, I almost never threw out a pair. Even if they didn’t really fit or I didn’t like to wear them, I kept them because they were so hard to find… and so expensive.
But just as I’ve been getting rid of my larger size clothes, it’s time to get rid of the larger shoes. Even when they did fit me they weren’t attractive, and now they don’t even fit me. Who knew that feet could shrink, too? Not in length, but now a normal width works for me. I could probably wear heels, too, but after all this time in sensible shoes I’m just not a heels kind of gal.
To my old shoes, I bid adieu. Next, it’s off to Zappos!
