More shoes! More shoes!

[ailbhe]

Linnea is destined to end up barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen, ok? Because I can't buy her shoes.

Yes, I know you thought I'd bought her shoes - and written about it, most unnecssarily - but I hadn't really, I just thought I had, She was wearing them - Saturday and Sunday she wore them, and today. And I met a friend for lunch on the corner and then we both went home to change nappies and I gave Linnea a little feed and saw her ankle.

Bleeding.

I got Rob to fetch me her shoes and sure enough, there was blood on one. It had rubber her ankle until it bled. this isn't unusual in a shoe, when your feet are shaped like mine and Rob's, and Linnea's are, only double. But it's heartbreaking when it's the shoes one ahs bought for one's own baby. So I spent the afternoon in John Lewis' children's shoe department again.

We started off with Linnea asleep; I got a refund for the first pair of shoes and a voucher to compensate me for my baby's trauma (she hadn't noticed, of course, but I had, and the shop girl almsot cried looking at the bloody sandal). She looked through all the shoes they had in a G-fitting and none of them had a narrow enough heel. None of the sandals are in a G-fitting; they only go up to F. After Linnea woke up we tried some little canvas things and one set of those fits well enough to "do", at least for now. But I can see that I'll have to go back in one month, rather than two, to get it checked again. The last set of sandals lasted 9 weeks but that was at least partially because it took me a while to realise that her increased clumsiness was because they no longer fit.

So I'm thinking of going to Harrods, where there is apparently a very large Start-Rite department, and I also intend to Google for a large London Clarks. And John Lewis have ordered some slightly better shoes for me in a range of possibly appropriate sizes, so we'll try those when they arrive.

Harrods. I've only been there once; my mother and I got lost. She also spent a pound to spend a penny, which amused her.

Comments

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Would you like me to bring a pair of mocassins in her size when we come over? Or does she need more support than that now?

Re: More shoes! More shoes!

[ailbhe]

It's not support, exactly - it's more the hard soles for walking on brambles, rocks, broken glass etc. She does a *lot* of walking now, around town and the parks and playgrounds, and although we have loads of soft shoes for her (Daisy Roots and Robeez) I'm not confident in the soles. While we're on Aran, she will likely walk to the beach and back most times we go.

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[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

Stick on soles? We used to have them on our slippers as kids so we could wear them outside. Not ideal vis-a-vis support but it might be a stop gap.

[wingedkami.livejournal.com]

I always wore Start-Rite shoes when I was little - I think they came up a bit wider than Clarks ones, and I had wide feet back then (great long narrow things now).

There may be less scary places to go than Harrods, but I don't know what they are.

[k425.livejournal.com]

If you're going in to London, try Daisy and Tom (www.daisyandtom.com) in Chelsea - I've always found them really helpful, patient at measuring toddler feet and with a good range of styles and not as expensive as I expected for baby shoes.

[allyphoe.livejournal.com]

Alex at 2 still wears virtually nothing but Robeez. (She has some sandals for water-splashing, but rarely wears them.) They go over rocks. They go over broken glass (well, not giant sharp shards of broken glass, but no shoes are meant for that). They go over evil spiky weeds of assorted varieties, although I try to keep her out of the larger ones for her legs' sake.

She's scuffed a hole in one of the toes (these were bought used and have been worn hard and washed often), but the soles still have all the thickness they ever had.

Robeez are my friends. She also has a pair of ShooBDoos (Shoo Shoos?) that purport to be Robeez-like, but offer virtually no foot protection. They are strictly inside shoes in my book.