Good stores for larger sizes - my opinions. - Page 2

Ozzard · 14th August 2008, 10:12

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Originally Posted by highestheels

I have tried Barratts in couple of places and they only seem to stock up to a size UK8.

Some of their larger stores stock their "tall and small" range - unfortunately very limited. The Trafford Centre store does, for example. http://www.barratts.co.uk and pick "Larger footprint" from their Womens range.

Saturn · 15th August 2008, 06:43

Wow, 9.5 Womens is very small for a male. You're lucky.

Pretty much every one of my friends has like size 11, 12, or 13 US Men sizes. I'm glad I don't have to deal with that, it's hard enough to shop.

I understand that Payless is the only store for some people... there are four Payless stores near me, three of which I can regularly check without wasting gas. They usually have a pretty slim selection, as does my local Wal-Mart. The last half dozen times I've been to the ol' Wally World, they only had 1 size 12 and it was a very low-heeled, ugly patent sandel with a weird color (purple, I think). Not only was it too big, but it was not my taste at all.

Looking through the endless Payless thread, I see some nice stilletos. I can say that my local Payless never have anything close to the nice shoes you guys are finding at your local shops (and as I understand it, you're ordering from the Payless online store as well).

I guess I have to be happy with my US 11 Women feet, it could be worse (I do take a size 12 M for Pleaser shoes though).

15th August 2008, 19:38

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Originally Posted by plasmaboy

What about UK. I can think of:

Shoezone
Faith
Next
Barratts

I some times don't have the bottle to do Faith or Next as you have to ask for the size 9's or whatever. Got to get a grip[ I guess!

Faith only goes up to size 9,but do have some nice heels and Barratts goes up to size 10 but not in the styles I like.

heelma · 16th August 2008, 02:55

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Originally Posted by Saturn

Looking through the endless Payless thread, I see some nice stilletos. I can say that my local Payless never have anything close to the nice shoes you guys are finding at your local shops (and as I understand it, you're ordering from the Payless online store as well).

I guess I have to be happy with my US 11 Women feet, it could be worse (I do take a size 12 M for Pleaser shoes though).

Order online, that will help. You can ship to your local store to avoid shipping charges. Deliveries arrive on Tuesdays only, so call your store on Tuesday afternoon. BUT, in the past I also found bigger sizes in a store than were available online. Plus, look at the adjacent men's section, I also found that the women size 13 continued there occasionally.

Saturn · 16th August 2008, 07:30

I'm going to have to retract a lot of what I said about Payless. After seeing what kind of shoes everyone was getting there, I decided to stop by Payless and see what's been going on in the year or so that I haven't been in there.

Definately a big improvement all around in the selection. I guess the bottom line is, I wouldn't have had to go online to find some good styles as soon as I did. While I was there, I scoped out the size 12s and 13s, and it really seems they're embracing the larger sizes instead of making only huge chunky-wide strange looking heels. I saw some black slingback peeptoes that were pretty nice, but I'm not really into peeptoes, more the slingback style. I'm sure come winter they'll have more closed toe varieties.

I've also been stopping in a few higher-end adult stores (Adult Mart and Pricillas) because they carry heels - unfortunately, their shoes only go up to size 10. Boo.

And I guess I'm gonna have to stop by Burlington Coat Factory soon.

All these stores I'm mentioning are around Cleveland, Ohio.

thatotherguy · 16th August 2008, 18:06

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Originally Posted by Saturn

Wow, 9.5 Womens is very small for a male. You're lucky.

Well, I guess you can call it lucky, as well as unlucky. When it comes to women's shoes, I guess it should help (I havent went shopping for heels just yet), but when it comes to just general hanging out with friends, my smaller feet usually become a point of discussion and into a joke (meh Im so used to it though, just my friends having some fun

and everyone laughs).

demoniaplatforms · 17th August 2008, 06:03

I take a size 9 in womens shoes! (smaller still, so I'm even luckier!)

RonC · 18th August 2008, 21:39

I'm not sure I would think it a blessing, as if I could wear a size 9, I'd be living in a box, but I'd have lots of pairs of shoes! I think it would be way too costly for me! Not many shoes I like come in a size 12, so my buying habits are much less frequent (though if I did wear a 9, I could actually by much less expensive sale shoes!). I must say that if I could get them easy, I personally would have kept Nine West in bausiness the last few years...lol

HappyFeat · 19th August 2008, 02:05

Today I saw a sign in the Macy's shoe department that said "We Now Carry Size 11!" I kind of took a second look because I wear an 11 and had purchased many shoes at that particular store.

I know that 11 really isn't too much of a larger size, but they were quite hard to find a few years back (at least in my experience.) Can 12s be too far behind?

dingpat · 19th August 2008, 04:06

oh I hope not!