{"id":10673,"date":"2018-11-09T21:11:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T20:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=10673"},"modified":"2018-11-10T21:43:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:43:59","slug":"daily_1417_-_boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2018\/11\/09\/daily_1417_-_boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1417 – boots"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nShopping is not my favourite activity. Some things are harder to shop than others, and some are positively anxiety-inducing. Footwear is among the worst. It’s hard to find good shoes, and bad ones will affect my well-being daily, and they cost a lot so I can’t just buy and hope for the best and throw them out like a piece of cheese I didn’t like.<\/p>\n

Skirts and trousers are also hard, and sports bras.<\/p>\n

All of these categories have hundreds, if not thousands, of varieties to choose from. Some will fit me really badly, and others will fit only slightly badly, and some might actually fit really well – but there is no way to find out in advance how something will fit.<\/p>\n

Shoe shops offer more choice than ever, so it should be easier than ever to find something that fits. And there are specialist sites that only sell sports bras, for example. But their wide selection of goods is presented in such a way that you can only choose by looks, not by fit. I can search for red shoes, sparkly shoes, platform soled shoes, but I cannot search shoes with soft soles, or boots with a wide calf – or trousers that will fit wide hips and a narrow waist.<\/p>\n

The winter boots that I finally bought last year didn’t even last through one winter season – both zippers broke, in different ways. So I have to go through it again this year. To my surprise I actually found two pairs of boots that fit me, in the first batch I ordered. I might actually buy both pairs, even thought it feels decadently wasteful. Soon I will be like Imelda Marcos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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