I told my friends this story this morning at church and they asked if I had blogged about it yet. Well, here it is. So I went to a local sporting goods store recently and found a pair of the cutest Teva sandals. I just loved them and tried on a pair. They were close to my size, but not quite. See I have small feet (size 6 in women's), and the shoes were a 7. So I looked over the entire rack, only to be disappointed. Then I went to the counter to request a size 6. The clerk told me they don't carry size 6 in the store normally. I found this odd, and mentioned that it sounds like discrimination against small feet. The guy said whenever they carry size 6 or 6 and 1/2, they always sell out so quickly. Which again made me wonder why they don't normally carry those sizes: more sales = more money, right?
Anyway, I was forced to wander away from shopping locally (after searching several other local stores for those exact sandals, only to find the wrong sizes and colors) to shopping online. And after much searching, I found what I was looking for on Amazon.com (click to see the sandals). I ended up getting 2 pair and receiving free shipping.
So tough luck to the local stores who decided that small feet don't deserve the same treatment of cute shoes!
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Discrimination Against Small Feet
Posted by Esther at 10:27 PM
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2 comments:
hahaha! shopping for a size eight and a half to nine pair of feet is JUST as bad. instead of the shoes being too big but still cute, they're all NOT CUTE. honestly..... i am forced to regress to flip-flops for my "formal" shoes. :P
Katie,
You should check out these Tevas that I ordered. They are flip flops, but dressy enough to look good with a dress.
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