BFA - Big Foot's Anonymous :)

I know there are other BB'ers out there with big feet, i know there was a thread about it previously but i can't seem to find it. :wall:

So who is joining me here at BFA?

My Name is ~ Zarava Flutterby ~ and i have big feet... size 11-12 (more 12 :redface:).

I used to be able to get away with a size 11 runner but lately i can't, have been trying on pair after pair to no avail.
I'm lucky to find an 11 and no-one stocks 12's around here :wall:

Have a friend who might be able to get me some size 12's but it's hard without trying them on... so who's with me.. and what are a list of comfortable, decently priced perfectly sized shoes?

Not really anon. in here, are we? I'm a UK 9, which is usually a European 43 and possibly an Aussie 10. I was a UK10 pre-op, now I'm a 9.

I must confess, I have two places where I can get shoes. One shop whose size 8s are ridiculously generous and one high-street shop's on-line ordering. They usually fit pretty well, so I'm fortunate.

Growing up, I got "have you seen our men's selection?" a lot. Last time it happened was in my parents' local town and DH bodily removed me from the store before I hurt someone. Men's shoes and high heels from age 7 is what caused all the damage to my feet in the first place!

We are still kind of anonymous.. using usernames and all :p
I get the mens comments, but would you believe i asked for mens 10's the other day and they had NONE.. WTF are you serious, no womens 12's and no mens 10's for me either :crying:

I'm a little big foot - I have 9.5's to 10s BUT I had a mutant big toe which is a whole cm longer than the next toe, so I'm in a world of shoe pain. Plus I have hairy feet so I think that deserves a special membership category in BFAs. :p

I thought taking tweezers to the feet and hands were normal MD, so don't worry.

ZF, this is why I have just one large box of shoes at home. I find so few I like in my size that don't hurt my feet. Now I have to find a pair for my sister's wedding as I have no sandals and my two pairs of ballarina-style shoes don't suit the dress.

BFA Memberships awarded too:

TheFlyingButter
Marydean
~Zarava Flutterby~

Hmm membership could be funky shoelaces... but then we'd need to find big enough shoes to put them in :wall: :rofl:

Bootlaces, my dear, bootlaces. As if my shoes are small enough for regular shoelaces!

How tall are you all though? I am just over 5ft and have a ladies size eight & wide, so rarely do I find shows that fit comfortably... If you are tall, I can understand having longer feet

I am 5'11" which does explain why i have such large feet but doesn't explain why i can't find shoes :rofl:
I honestly have mens feet, long and wide ;)

:hello: Hi, my name's Ree*Ree and I hover between a wide ladies 9 and 10. I am also cursed with a bit of a bunion.
I am a bit of a clutz with my feet, always knocking them into things!
Oh, and I am in no way tall! I think I'm 156cm?

Me too me too me too!!!!

I'm 5ft 11in and wear a ladies size 12. Which is darn near impossible to get in Perth with the exception of one completely AWESOME shop called Benelli Shoes. They do sizes 3-13 and even do custom fits. Oh and for BFA's not in Perth - they do mail order.

It has been getting better, with a few companies like Diana Ferrari starting to stock 12's now, but you have to get in quick before they sell out.

I've only just realized for years I've been squashing into 11s when I should have been going for 12s.
Walking us so bad in dodgy shoes, the 11s rub and I just don't notice, no wonder I have sore feet :)


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Add mee too please!
Im am a size 12 and living 2 hours away from perth means even if ihad alot of money to spend on shoes, i wouldnt be buying any without a road trip... it sucks really bad!

Ok so I'm only a size 8 but my feet are so wide I can't fit size 8! Can I get an award, or should I be in wide foot anonymous!


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I'm 6ft & i'm a size 9 so i guess i don't really have big feet considering how tall i am.
My Mum was 5'2 & had to wear size 10-11.
DD1 is also going to have big feet.

YAY.. woo hoo for not being alone.

I often wonder about my girls, they are both quite petite and their feet look biggish but i think they are average for their ages.
I was actually quite short with smallish feet until year 11, my cousin jinxed me and said i would never have to worry about buying shoes and now i have just as much trouble as she does.

So where do you lovely ladies find your shoes?

My girls are nothing a like.
DD1 is really tall for her age with wide feet, so we often need to go to a shoe shop & get her fitted properly.
DD2 is average height & has tiny feet & with have no trouble buying shoes anywhere for her.

As for me, i can buy my shoes anywhere as well but my Mum always needed to go to a shoe shop to buy shoes.
She had really flat feet which didn't help when buying shoes.

Oh please add me :) I have size 10 feet and it's so hard to find shoes that fit and are comfortable. I guess being 6'1" dosn't help either, I look like a giraffe in high heels :( Which really sucks. Oh to be able to wear heels

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Oh please add me :) I have size 10 feet and it's so hard to find shoes that fit and are comfortable. I guess being 6'1" dosn't help either, I look like a giraffe in high heels :( Which really sucks. Oh to be able to wear heels

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:rofl: i wore thongs to my year 12 formal :p
I hate heels so i'm lucky, but that might be attributed to the fact i'm so tall already AND it was hard to find them in my size :p

I'll join too! I'm size 10 and have been since my early teens- very hard to get shoes in those days and spent most of my life with blisters from shoes rubbing.
Us big foots are lucky there is more options now, shame it still seems hard to get a wide variety.

i used to be a size 9 but now im a 10, not sure why or when that happened!
my DD2 is 2.4 yrs younger than her sister but they wear almost the same size shoe :o her feet at big, DD1 has tiny slender feet

I was so lucky the other day went to the colorado closing down sale and there was a pair of size 12 shoes, down from $109 to $40 something, snapped them up in a second and so comfy but now colorado are gone :(

The one thing I hate about most places that stock larger sizes is that the majority are such frumpy old nanna styles! I'm sorry, I'm only just 30 and still like my cute little strappy sandals and knee high boots, those staid old "court shoes" are just not going to cut it anywhere except work - and maybe not even then!

6ft and size 10-11. i hate it, i wouldnt mind having big feet if i wasnt so tall, i look like a tard trying to walk in heels! and i look like hagrids slim sister if i wear them. im about 3 cms taller than df when neither of us are wearing shoes, will be wearing thongs at our wedding!

Sky i didn't know you were so tall.
I wont wear heels i hate the fact i'm so tall & would rather not draw more attention to it but i do dream of wearing heels or boots & all the pretty outfits i could wear with them.

My DH is awesome - he's a full head shorter than me but loves it when I wear heels (even if he does call me his giant). I feel like a giraffe next to him sometimes though.

Hey Skybie, how about a pair of ballet slippers under the wedding dress?

Me too, me too! I'm a ladies 10-11. They're also wide AND flat. Sometimes they suction down to the tiles and make a sound when you lift them and break the seal. DH finds that kinda amusing. He's also named them 'hemoth feet', as in behemoth...

Maybe it's because I'm just so used to big feet, but small feet kinda gross me out. My friends aren't too much shorter than me, but have like size 6 feet and it just looks weird to me!

I'm a 10 but I don't really have trouble getting shoes

I find some of wittners flats to be awesome! Nice and wide as well, some styles even go to an 11.

Duo boots are good as well, they do shoes for both narrow and wide feet and large. But you have to order from the UK and aren't really that cheap.

Size 10 feet here. Feel sorry for my daughters, DP has size 15 feet. Genetics will not be kind I fear.

My name is Donna and I have big feet... the last time I went shoe shopping was six months ago and I nearly decked the store person because he told me he didnt have what I wanted in my size and I would have trouble finding shoes in my size. Dude I am 34 years old and have had feet this big since high school. Tell me something I dont know
Before DD I was a size 10 with wide feet but now I hover between a 10 and 11.

Yep... Im still a freak.. Size 14 here.

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Yep... Im still a freak.. Size 14 here.

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Where do you find shoes hun, you'd have to go custom all the way wouldn't you?
Not a freak hun.. welcome to the club :hug:

I dont... My shoe woredrobe consists of mens thongs and skate shoes :( I just cant afford the custom shoes...

:hug: hun, wonder how we would go about working out how to make our own :) could open up a BB branded footwear store :)
A lady we know at the library says she has a friend who owns a shop that caters for bigger sizes, i might check them out :)
Wonder if i could get a discount buying in BULK?

MM your not a freak :hug: Are you tall as well?

Im 5'11 Cheshire :)

I'm somewhere between 5'11 and 6' - so fairly tall. And my favourite shoes atm are 4" heels: I look fantastic in them. Wear heels if you want, ladies! I rarely wear 4" heels with DH as he's short, but do so when I'm not out with him.

I have bought shoes from cross-dresser shops before now, so ended up with rather sexy men's shoes.

If you think big feet are freaky, just think how you'd look being 6' tall with size 2 feet. Now that would be just plain weird.

How on earth would you balance with feet that small?

I feel for my DD though - 9 years old and already a size 3-4

I hate being tall i always feel like i freak so i can't bring myself to wear heels.

TFB i wish i had your confidence to wear heels.

I had size UK7 feet at age 10. I was in heels then because at that time that's all the shoe choices there were, realistically. I was a UK3 at age 7.

Tall = freak? Not so! Look at all the supermodels out there. No superpowers (wouldn't that rock?) but all lauded for their height. Tall is great. I can reach things off top shelves for little people in supermarkets - those little people who were looking for a step. Tall people can put on half a stone and not go up 3 dress sizes. Tall people are assumed to be psychologically balanced, capable and sensible. Which is a great disguise for me: I could not have gotten through life without it! Tall rocks.

And why do short people wear heels? So they can look as tall as we do naturally. They're jealous. We're not.