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Gordon Henderson wrote:
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Rod wrote:

I too have had shoes made - but unsuccessfully. Somehow they just did
not feel right. So I usually stick with Cosyfeet and various inserts.


They don't feel right because you've never had a pair correctly made to
measure...

I have rectangular feet, or paddles as my wife calls them. Probably
something to do with viking ancestry or something... NEver had shoes
that fitted until a few years ago and a trip to the Conker Show company
in Totnes (I live relatively nearby). I now have a pair of shoes and a
pair of boots (not steel tow capped though) that fit perfectly and I
won't be without them now.

Bloody expensive though - nearly �200 a pair, however, I've had the boots
re-soled once - they're now nearly 4 years old and the shoes which are
2 years old might get re-soled for the start of next year and I'm hoping
to get quite a few more years out of them yet.

As for safety boots - I bought some cheapies out of the local country
stores, (Tuckers, Ashburton), which fit mostly OK if I wear 2 pairs of
thick wooly socks.

Gordon


I am sure you are right. Which made the ones I did get a bit of a waste. :-(

Every time I have investigated, the options have not looked good -
Totnes is a very long eway away, other makers specialise in types/styles
of shoe that do not work for my feet, are too expensive, or something.
But at least for shoes I can live with Cosyfeet's offerings.

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