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In reply to the discussion: Dear Local Mall: No wonder so many of your kind are dying off. [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Young women are having huge and exponential increases in shoe sizes.
Feet that require size eleven to size thirteen shoes. Are these young women the offspring of two NBA players, now having kids? No, normal sized parents, but kids have larger and largest feet. (And didn't Darwin state that biological changes were about adapting? But why would young people need larger feet, when they are basically sitting around texting?)
Yet in today's stores, almost all brands taper off their selection after size ten.
Even Easy Spirit doesn't furnish for larger feet.
And most shoe brands allow for half sizes up to size ten. After size ten, you either have to slosh around in shoes a half size too large, or have feet being pinched by half size too small.
Also forget about being a dress size sixteen. That size basically quit existing some years ago. The old size eighteen is one size too big, and size fourteen is too small.