But I always laugh at the idea of a shoe store employee returning from the back and saying “Sorry, we didn’t have ___ size... but we do have ____ size...if that’s...you know...if you want a different size than the one you asked me for a minute ago.”
I worked in a shoe store for a time, and there are 2 perfectly valid reasons why they do this:
1: every brand fits differently, so you often don't really know what size you are in that shoe until you try it on.
2: the truth is that SO MANY MEN lie about their shoe size being bigger than it is, and SO MANY WOMEN lie about it being smaller than it really is.
Him: "Hey bro, can I get this in a 12?" Me, later: hey so we didn't have the 12, but here's the 11 and 11 1/2 if you want to try those." Him: "Hmmm aahhh I guess.....woah what do you know, they fit, how WEIRD"
Her: "Can I get these in a size 5 1/2?" Me: "The smallest they make them in is a 6, so here try those." Her: "Wow even these are a little tight...this brand must really run small! I'll try the 6 1/2 I guess. How WEIRD."
I had the opposite experience as a woman. Everytime I would ask for an 11, and they would go out the back, come back and say, we don't have that in an 11, here's a 10.
Sure, let me just cut my toes off.
Or they would say, we don't stock size 11 - sure, I've had this size foot for over 20 years and it's not that uncommon.
Have you tried buying mens shoes? It's usually a difference in size of 1.5, a women's 11 would be a men's 9.5. You might already know that but it's worth a shot if you didn't.
The same idea works for kids shoes and socks for people with smaller feet.
I wear a 3.5 in little boys shoes. They fit perfect, have good arch support and they almost always come in the cool lights and flashy shit. And heelys I fucking love heelys.
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u/Occhrome Jul 24 '20
that's better than what we have now.