Be Careful Whose Shoes You Are Walking in Today

I had a rude awakening this summer when I pulled out the UK size 2.5 shoes I had bought for my son a couple of months earlier, only to find that they were far too small already. I mean, I should have realised since he had been wearing size 3 sneakers for a while. But sizing is weird on feet, especially when it comes to my kids. All three of them had the most ridiculously wide feet as small children and they have only marginally averaged out as they have grown older. My son, the youngest at ten, is still facing those delightful moments of trying on a new pair of shoes, only to find that they are too long yet he can’t wiggle even his baby toe. Our saving grace, after painfully going through the motions of sourcing extra-wide fitting shoes from well-known but boring children’s shoe brands, and then paying through the nose for some handmade real leather shoes, only to have them ruined completely in their infancy on one single wet walk, has been to discover that some highly regarded and very trendy brands make shoes for wide feet. Vans, Nike and Doctor Martens have come up trumps and become our go-to — which, for my son and his fast-growing feet, are definitely sourced from the second-hand market. <a href="https://medium.com/age-of-empathy/be-careful-whose-shoes-you-are-walking-in-today-2b625a04d0b8">Click Here</a>