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dc


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UGH!!! I officially hate shoes right now.
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Why can't I find ONE SINGLE pair of shoes that doesn't have some bizarre issue with fits, slingback, whatever? 


Unless a shoe is a boot or a pump, I have an issue.  The only exception I can think of are my new gold Holly Pitchers (this year's version of the dollyanna from aerosoles).  The Steve Maddens I got tore up the back of my heel because the elastic was so tight, and my C Ronson strap flops around back there (not to mention that my skinny foot slides too far to the front). 


Today I am wearing these shoes (below), which I loooooove... to look at.  To wear, giant pain in the ass.  The footbed is pretty ergonomic, but the %$@&! slingback keeps sliding off (not matter how tightly I adjust them - seems to be because it's positioned so low on the back of the heel), making them effectively a mule.  Did I mention that due to a collapsed arch I can't walk very well in mules (unless they have a lower heel)?  When my arch flattens as I walk, my foot turns the shoe sideways, so I am half-on half-off the sole, with the shoe at a 45 degree angle to my foot (if you can imagine that). 


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Shoes that have thongs are a joke - not only do my toes splay out unattractively like a monkey (if the heel is higher so that my weight goes to my toes), but my arch problem makes them slide off at that 45 degree angle so my heel is to the inside of the shoe. The only thongs I can wear are totally flat.


My foot has to be so firmly strapped into a shoe that it can't move. And this seems to be impossible.


Ok, thanks for listening to my vent. Any advice? Wasn't someone talking about those things that keep slings on your foot, and if so, where can you get them (and do they work?)



-- Edited by dc at 11:02, 2005-06-01

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Coach

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I understand!  And I am glad I am not the only one who walks awkwardly in mules.  Sometimes I think shoe designers could care less that real people have to walk around in these shoes, to bad we aren't mannequins or starlets who just stand and pose.

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I sooooooo feel your pain!


I do not own even one single pair of slingbacks or closed-toe mules.  Just can't do it.  They won't stay on my feet for reasons opposite of yours:  My feet are small (size 5.5) and quite wide with short toes and a very straight achilles tendon, so shoes like this WON'T. STAY. ON. MY. FEET.  I don't have enought foot to keep a mule on, and not enough heel to keep a slingback on!


As for the sling back holder-on thing, I have not attempted them because I don't want to get my hopes up just to be disapointed.  I know some other girls have had luck with them though.


Not so much with the advice, just commiseration.



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DC - I'm the one who posted a while back about slingbacks falling off my feet and the product that keeps them on your feet.  I bought Strappy Strips by Footpetals (www.footpetals.com) and put them on the slingback and they work perfectly!  My slingbacks now stay on!  I say give them a try.  And if you can't find the Strappy Strips, buy the Heavenly Heels and just cut them to size.  HTH!



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I'm almost relieved to hear other people have problems with their shoes, too... I have always thought I must have weird, freakish feet but I'm beginning to suspect it's the shoes and not my feet that are weird. Is it really so much to ask to want to buy shoes you can actually walk in!


I can't wear mules either because they somehow turn sideways with every step and almost fall off. In my case, thongs are just too painful to wear altogether. And all the other shoes rub against the skin and cause blisters. I don't think I ever want to find out what kind of damage slingbacks would do!


I'm pretty desperate myself and can't really give you any advice, dc. I just tend to buy a lot of band-aids during the summer...



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oliviacw


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I have the same problem with mules and thongs - just can't keep them on. In my case it's due to having short toes - there's nothing there to grab on with! I even have to wear a size smaller in sandals so that there's not an inch of sole showing at the end of my foot. Plus, my feet are wide, so there are a lot of shoes I can't even get my feet into, and many more that are too uncomfortable to wear.

Fortunately, I can wear slingbacks.

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