Dreaded school shoe shopping yesterday.
Last year DD started school with 12.5 and by Easter was 13. At home over the holidays she's wearing her 13 trainers and 13 boots (no complaints of being too tight like she did with the 12.5)
She was out with my sister last week and they popped into a little independant store to look at school shoes and because it was quiet got her feet measured and they said 1f, so was a bit shocked when I was told; thinking how is she getting in her current shoes but thought maybe her feet had grown a little. So yesterday we go to clarks and the lady asks what size she is so I said was wearing 13 clarks April - July and wearing 13 trainers over the holidays but was measured the other day as a 1f. DD steps on the ipad and the lady says she is 2E so I query and say are you sure only if she were surely she wouldn't be able to get into any 13 so she says definetly 2E and asks if we would like to try and shoes. We says yes and the lady goes off without asking what style etc.
Comes back with 2 pair of shoes, one non patent which DD hates non patent and would have told the lady this if she had asked and one plain patent pair which we try on and DD looked like a clown in the oversized shoes.
So I say we had this problem last two times your ipad said XXX size (couldn't remember size) and we had to go down sizes. Lady then says that although they appear too big had we thought about lace up shoes because they may suit better?
I said DD is 7 and wouldnt want lace up shoes and informed her I had no confidence in Clarks anymore
Visit another store later that day and DD is a 1 and were advised that 1 is a fraction big but will allowed a little room.