timing for buying new shoes for new term/year....

[tranquilamanana]

i need to buy shoes for all 3 dc

they all need measured and are undoubtedly up a size (obv wont need to buy if not, but its been a few months, so reckon they are) anyway i digress.

ds1&2 need school shoes, school plimsolls, school wellies (they stay at school)... plus a home version of each (we have a lot of mud around here)

ds3 will just need wellies and 2 comfy easy shoes - doodles or whatever

so been saving he whole trip for as late in the hols as possible to get longest wear out of them... but has just occured to me (and my eldest being only just 4, i dont really have any experience of this) that several hundred thousand other mothers in the region may be doing same thing (agh)

so - do you think its mad or sensible to go and do it all tomorrow?

one word answers will do! thanks

Does anywhere other than Clarks do white velcro plimsolls [sigh]

Pair of black ones and bucket of bleach ??????

goodpoint sms, thx.

ok, so went (childless) into the small independent shoe shop in nearby town to ask about stocks of school shoes. she said they had v v few in but were getting a lot more variety in the next 2 weeks. inc the geox ones which someone on cods sim thread from yesterday said were dead good.

do i risk waiting?? hmmmmmmm

i can get the wellies online. and the gym shoes are easy too... hmmmmm