Deeper shoes for teen girl that will fit orthotics

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DD2 has strange feet with auxilliary bones that are very flat. She has to wear custom made orthotics in her shoes and we get them made to measure as they are rigid and much slimmer than the ready made ones.

We have just had a new set of inserts made as she had out grown the last lot but cannot find a pair of black school shoes that are deep enough for them.

All the shoe shops including Clarks have ballerina type shoes which are just too shallow for the inserts. The only ones vaguely deep enough would look clunky on the Bride of frankenstein! We have been to every high street shop including Brantano

Help!

(Oh and one last thing- her school are VERY fussy about shoes- no bows, buckles or coloured stitching.)

Get a pair of doc marten brogue style or Mary Janes. They'll last her ages.

Thank you for this thread. I'm just looking for that type of shoes!

My daughter is in the same boat and it's hit or miss as to what fits. Over the last 5 years she's had lace up DMs and Red or Dead brogues that were both great, but she also had to spend a year wearing black trainers as we couldn't find any shoes that were supportive enough. Her Podiatrist wrote a letter to her school to cover it and they had no problem at all with it as it was down to medical reasons (even though they are very strict on uniform)