To want to buy a pair of school shoes that cover the whole of my daughter's foot?

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Dd starts school in September. She has an older brother. I have already negotiated the complexities of uniform buying for girls (boys: trousers, tshirts, jumper, possibly shorts in summer; girls: trousers, skirts, pinafore dress, gingham dress, jumper, cardigan, endless styles of tshirts...) and now have to buy some shoes this week.

Is it just me or are school shoes for girls not very practical for the winter? They only just come over the toes! We only have Clarks near us without travelling quite a way so I have looked online but without much success. Any ideas? I am tempted to buy her some boys shoes...

www.widefitshoes4u.co.uk/prods/lina-by-ricosta.html

These ricosta shoes might also fit the bill.

Glad to see I'm not alone SoupDragon!

Our walk to school is pretty long and on cycletrack/footpath not pavement so gets wet and muddy in winter. The boy might have nice enclosed leather shoes but would still get wet feet in them! Not to mention cold feet in winter. Nope in winter, boy or girl, they wear their thick wool winter socks and boots to keep feet warm and dry and provide grip on ice. Sometimes they wear thermal layers too and waterproof trousers. We jsut have to make sure we get to school with a little time for them to take all their layers off!

I put DD in wellies if it is really wet or icy, but they're not encouraged to change for playtime- I'm pretty sure they're just sent straight out in their school shoes.

[[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ricosta-Girls-Patent-Flats-58-8121400-091/dp/B00DSXBQIG/ref=sr_1_115?s=shoes&ie=UTF8&qid=1376910007&sr=1-115&keywords=girls+school+shoes what about these. Although I agree with Soupdragon, i dont really see your problem as DD walked to school in normal girly school shoes and ran around the playground in them, even managed to practise her gymnastics.

what about these proper link

YA so NBU. Drives me mad and my girls are 7 and 8 now. So many shoes are cut so low on the foot, which for the long toed/high arched 8 year old means even the best fiting ones are more like a flip-flop. I was very please to discover Toughees this year, which do come further up her feet.

Sorry for missing letters. I'm on a different keyboard from my usual one and it appears I'm not quite firm enough with it.

The problem persists to secondary school though; where the option to where wellies to school and change them is laughable considering the difficulty in even getting a teenager to wear a coat when it is snowing!

It's very hard to buy ANY girls shoe that cover most of the foot, that aren't boots, on the high street.

Dd is only 2 but I've already despaired of getting something sturdy on the high street that isn't a boot.
She's in sandals and (sainsburys) doodles for now and will end up with boots when the weather turns.

www.wynsors.com/kick-heart-bar-inf-p-32066.html

Just bought these for my youngest - as hard on shoes as DS.

I haven't noticed wetness being a issue with eldest as girl style shoes. Then they walk in wellingtons in snow though not so much in rain. Spare tights or socks are easy to carry though when yougest can't resist puddles.

Now I'm wishing I bought the ones bruffin linked to - at least for winter.

We walk 3 miles each way to school ( dd is 5, ds 6) and to be honest, the shoes are not a problem. They don't wear them unless they are in the classroom, as every playtime it's wellies / boots on or no outside. I'm glad as dd is weeny, size 5 feet and the narrowest fitting, no hope of getting her any decent school shoes at all!

My best investment was an all in one rainsuit for both kids, it straps OVER wellies, so the kid arrives dry as a bone no matter what. We can bike or scoot or walk and they still get there dry. The best "wellies" are crocs, but they are too lightweight for winter, we move to duckboots then.

Bobux shoes are a New Zealand brand & lots of independent shops stock them. They also have an online shop.

www.bobux.co.uk/baby

Or Sports Direct for affordable shoes:
m.sportsdirect.com/mt/www.sportsdirect.com/kids/kids-shoes?un_jtt_v_un_PLP=yes&un_jtt_v_un_search=&un_jtt_redirect

YANBU, which is why DD has boys' shoes for school, from Clarks. She got her current pair in October and they're still in good enough condition for her to be wearing them again when they start back in September.

She finished Y1 in July, and has asked a number of times when she can have girls' shoes as she's always being asked 'why are you wearing boys' shoes. I have told her she can have girls shoes when she's paying for them! (And that she's wearing boys' shoes because they're better than girls!)

My stance has now been backed up by the mother of one of her classmates who was so sick of her dd trashing her shoes that she decided that my approach was the best one and her dd now also has boys' shoes. LOL!

BTW, if you have an older boy in the same width it's worth hanging on to his outgrown shoes for your DD for either school if they're in good nick, or playing out shoes if they're a bit bashed. :)

www.sportsdirect.com/skechers-b-stelz-junior-shoes-093017
these look tough, though they dont go all the way up.

bottom are boys but are quite gender nutral.
www.sportsdirect.com/lee-cooper-back-to-school-slip-shoes-junior-093097

My daughter either gets kickers or boys shoes. It's bloody ridiculous that most shoemakers don't seem to consider that girls might actually errr, run around and play.

Thanks very much for all the suggestions, I haven't had time to go through them all yet but it's good t know I'm not the only one! We don't tend to wear wellies much, the walk to school is short and pavementy and the cloakroom at school very small and crowded, so changing shoes is a bit of a fag, and the school definitely don't encourage them to change for playtime unless it's ark conditions.

Will have a look through all the links now!

Just had to comment on the post that mentioned buckles instead of Velcro. My DD won't wear buckles, because they have to sit cross legged on a hard floor and the buckles then dig into her foot. We've never found Velcro less hard wearing.

Also not really sure of the issue, Wellies are for wet weather, boys or girls and my DD wears boots in winter. Mary Jane type shoes have never stopped her climbing trees r running round, not sure why they would.

I have this problem too, dd1 has ridiculously high in steps and Mary Jane type shoes just do not fit properly. I am contemplating 'boy' shoes but they are all a bit clumpy.

I honestly think it's a bit mean to put a little girl in boys' shoes if she has asked for girls' shoes. If she's not bothered it's another matter.

do they have to be black?

or boots?

or these?

MoominMammasHandbag Tue 20-Aug-13 20:53:46

I honestly think it's a bit mean to put a little girl in boys' shoes if she has asked for girls' shoes. If she's not bothered it's another matter.

bringonyourwreckingball Tue 20-Aug-13 20:13:48

I am contemplating 'boy' shoes but they are all a bit clumpy.