Clarks shoes in Singapore

[BellaMummy]

DD1's feet are growing at speed so I'm not sure what to buy here for the start of the school year, and what to just leave and get in Singapore in Nov/Dec before she starts school there.

Are the prices around the same? They don't list prices on the Singapore website.

S x

Buy there! I just bought the boys a pair of school shoes each. Equivalent of around £100 each. Ricosta so a good make but double what they cost in the UK. And the worst of it is turns out they can wear pretty much any old shoes to school!!

Kicking myself!!

OMG!!! That is outrageous! I don't even own a pair of shoes that expensive!

Right, off to Clarks tomorrow. Will get the biggest size possible I can get away with without having the child stomp around in clown shoes

Am planning on putting DD2 in crocs for the next two years.....

How are things out there for you pups?? Still enjoying it? I'm starting to stockpile stuff to take that will be hard to get...kids' toothpaste, cheap swimsuits and summer clothes, and now I can add SHOES to that list!

S x

Clarks shoes here in Belgium are roughly twice the price of ones sold in the UK. I've used this company a few times. It does mean you have to have a reliable method of measurement of your children's feet - we had a home measurer till it broke, also go to Decathlon for continental measurements then try and pick imperial Clarks equivalent sizes. Or if you find on this site Clarks shoes your children have actually tried on for size abroad but not bought, then use this method :-) If you buy 4 pairs of shoes, it's £5 extra per pair to Singapore, might seem a lot considering many of the shoes on this site are only £20, but compared to buying Clarks abroad from shops, it's much money saved.

www.shoesforkids.co.uk/post_rates.asp

sorry you need to pay for signed for too, so 4 pairs cost £5 each.

Thankd natation - that is a great tip. I can always take them in to Clarks and get them measured, and then just not buy anything then order online.

Exactly you got it! How about another naughty thing, write down the name of the shoes tried on or take photos of them on a mobile phone, then try and find them online.

Also the great thing about here is that the season is the same give or take slight differences in rainfall - so just buy loads of TooBigShoes in whatever flavour you want and know that your kids will grow into them at some point, with weather-suitability not likely to change. Am I making sense?

I always buy Clark's in the uk, explain tha t we live abroad, ask for half a size up and an inner sole. Clark's in Singapore is expensive, rarely has anything you want in the right size and try to convince you that "foot is size 9 but only 11 in stock, no problem, ah, you take?". Seriously, makes me want to write to Clark's hq.....

I agree buy there if you can. DH just went back to London and bought 2 pairs of shoes for each DC as they were in the sale.

Butterflies I'm very dubious about the measurements in Clarks in Singapore too.