to be miffed at spending 28quid on some hideous clarks shoes

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they are not even nice.
they are dds 1st proper walking shoes 15months

if you are wondering why i got hideous ones they were the best out of a bad bunch.

you can get cheaper shoes which are fine

really where

hang on ill try and get a pic

hopes the pic isn't of the same shoes DD has which she actually thinks are quite nice...

Is there an outlet store near you? They sell much cheaper. Or wait til the sale, I have had some at £5 before from the highstreet shop

here

Do clarkes hold guns to mothers heads now? Surely you you can go elsewhere for shoes?

That's the home page

don't think theres an outlet near me im inbetween milton keynes and northampton

Which ones?

Shoes are bloody expensive, but after several years of railing against this, and driving miles to find cheaper ones, I have decided just to go to one of the shops near me, get them, and then try to forget about the whole painful experience! I was really stressed once when the school shoes I got for DD1 cost £32 and DH said to me "look, if they had been £27, you wouldn't be worrying about it at all, so essentially you are worrying yourself silly over a fiver"!

God I sympathise. I've gone for startrite this year as while they are even more expensive at least they aren't hidous.
Can't bring myself to buy cheaper shoes which aren't measured / don't have different widths because while I know logically they could be fine I can hear my mother's voice in the back of my head as she spins in her grave telling me I'm condemning my children to a life of bunions, corns and other hideous defects.

MADDY FAY FST £28.00 (UK

What is the alternative? We have an independant which sell startrite and they're just as expensive although nicer but if you want properly fitted shoes the price is an extortion. It doesn't figure that a ladies boot in clarks is £60 and a childs shoe is almost £30. Why so disproportionate?

here
look for maddy ray under boots

yes as a person with feet so wide they are practically triangular (and a ds who seems on the same track) I'm not happy at idea of putting him in tesco one-width shoes. Would love to hear of cheaper ones that will still fit him...?

I sympathise. I paid £28 for DD's first pair of shoes. 6 weeks later she had grown a whole size and a half. Even the assistant was surprised. I'm due to take her again. Her feet are like canoes! I guess she is going to be tall.

I would say that a child's shoe takes about as long as an adult's boot to make, it's not just about the amount of materials used, hence the apparent disproportionate cost as you pay for time as well as volume.

I do agree though that width fitted shoes for children are a rip off. DD needs a wider fitting though so we are stuck with them.

We go to a Clarks outlet, thankfully there's one nearby.

I wouldn't mind so much if I really thought the quality of the fitting was good, but generally Clarks is patchy at best.

I absolutely bloody hate the whole shoes thing. We've given up with clarks for trainers for our boys, just go to a normal shoe shop now because they're old enough to tell us whats comfy and they don't wear them that much but school shoes are different. I looked in M&S, Next the like but the cheaper ones weren't leather. To get leather shoes was not much cheaper that clarks so £62 later....2 pairs black shoes, DS2 who started at the beginning of the week has already scuffed the hell out of them.

The problem is gingerninja for me is that they grow out of them quite quickly and they wreck their shoes. £30 per pair every 6 months or so for school and out of school shoes is alot of money.

there are cheaper shoe shoes on the high street

as long as they fit which you can check for yourself that is all that matters

I don't bother with another pair for out of school tbh - her school shoes do her for both. She has trainers and crocs for mucking about in.

DD never ends up in the size she is measured at either. I make sure that we try different sizes to make sure they do fit properly rather than just trust those dodgy machines they use.

tis ok. they are not mie. mine are pre walkers. I wouldn't be that keen on those either TBH - DD's shoes were also the best of what was avaibable but they have grown on me!!