Anyone else with size 8 feet and feel paranoid about how big they are!

[carrottopper]

Just that! Hate them

Oh god, I hate my huge size 7.5 feet. As feet go, theyre attractive - slim and long - but because I’m only 5’ 6.5” they look like flippers - I have long alien toes as well, so I’ve been told.

My shoe wardrobe ranges from size 6.5 (thank you Clarks) to size 9 (southern European shops).

It’s embarrassing to ask for big shoes in shops as you see the assistant’s eyebrows shoot up just before she looks down at your massive feet in horror.

Looking at modelling websites it seems that even models who’re generally about 5’ 10” only have size 7 feet.

If I wear white trainers, I look like Coco the Clown! 🤡

I'm 5ft 9 and an 8. It's never really bothered. I had a friend at school that was the same height and a shoe size 10 so I've felt grateful their not bigger

I'm an 8, which doesn't bother me per se, but to my great distress they are fat hobbit feet, ridiculously wide and really fat. I also have massive ankles. Buying shoes is impossible at the best of times as though the length is ok, the width and depth is not. Add in swelling after any length of time and I'm a fright.

@carrottopper

I remember NY eve this year, my friend's husband was stood at the side of me in the kitchen and I was wearing heels and he said 'How big are your feet?' In a shocked way. He is the same size as me. All my friends are roughly the same size and size 5/6

Size 8 is small for a man - I’d have been tempted to point that out to the twat.

My sister has size 8's and is 5ft 5. Compared to me she's a giant, my feet are size 4. When we were children someone told my DM, "just as well youngest has big feet for her height otherwise she'd topple over if her feet were tiny like older sister's.

Looking at modelling websites it seems that even models who’re generally about 5’ 10” only have size 7 feet.

Not all of them. I remember reading an article about Cindy Crawford in her modelling heyday, written by a female journalist. She spitefully noted that Cindy might have been beautiful and successful but her feet ‘were the shape of captain birdseye cod in batter portions and were huge’.

I’ve seen that ‘you think you’re so great but I’m going to find a flaw’ thing before, in relation to Kate Winslet. The context is usually, yeah, Kate Winslet, you think you’re so great with your Oscar and all but we know that your feet are size 11 so you’re not feminine enough and not really worth admiring. What arses people are!

The same with Paris Hilton, actually. I’m not an admirer of hers but regularly, when she’s in the news, someone will have a go at her for having long feet.

I am a size 8 and 6ft so always get told what small/tiny feet I have so don’t mind them.

I was in my local Debenhams a few months back and when I asked if they had a particular shoe style in a size 8 I was told that they didn’t stock any ‘big sizes’ but I could order online if I wanted. I have plantar fasciitis so I really need to try shoes on like most other people before buying.

I am just gobsmacked at how rude people are. Unbelievable. I'm a size 8 (42) W or 9 (43) regular width. (And don't get me started on the brands that call a 42 size 9 ). Am more bothered by the width of them than the length, but in all my 47 years I've never, ever had any comments on them from anyone else snooty shop assistants in LK Bennett aside.

BUT buying shoes is a nightmare, I long to be able to walk into a shop just and try something on. I don't tend to like the styles in the specialist large shoe places, so apart from trainers and Birkenstocks, all my shoes are from Next, Clarks (though their range in 9 or wide fit is really poor compared with what it was a few years ago), the occasional M&S. On the one hand it saves me a fortune (though am eyeing up some Air & Grace boots for winter), but still infuriated by the lack of choice.

DD1 is nearly 12 and has size 7s (her most recent trainers are an 8 for width!) and DD2 is in a 4 at age 9, but she is very tall. DH has size 8-9 feet and seems unfair both the girls have taken after me not him! I do really worry that DD1 is going to have feet bigger than mine and how the hell we're going to find shoes for her by the time she's a teenager.

I could bang on about this forever but basically OP I wouldn't worry about your feet, they sound just fine to me.

@PerfidiousAlbion yes I definitely should have said something about that! I was just too upset especially after a few glasses of fizz and I think the happy my spirit.
What a $+0€!

I'm an 8 too since I was about 12 and shoe shopping used to take forever. I have low ankle bones too so could never just buy sandals easily either.

Much easier these days - especially after discovering rocketdogs that I practically live in. The only downside is DH is also an 8 and steals all my walking boots.

I’m only a 7 but I am also only 5ft 0 so you are much more in proportion than me.

They’re not ugly feet and are well kept, plus I can do nothing about it so it is not on my worry list at all.

I hated having size 8 feet in the 80s. Women's shoes routinely stopped at a size 7.
Now pretty much all ranges cater for an 8 and I'm enjoying shoe shopping.

These replies have really cheered me up. Thank you lovely ladies. It's silly of me to question something which helps me move and do what I want but I feel much less paranoid about them. Just need to learn to love them as much as most of you do

Hey, you're feet are part of you and there is nothing wrong with them!

Your friends husband is a dick!

When the apocalypse comes and we need to learn how to climb the trees to avoid the we will have the tools, all those tiny tootsies won't hold a candle to our graceful climbers.

@Iamthewombat
Thank you. Actually my mother was smaller than me and had size 6 feet.
It was the jeering/pitying tone she used that I still remember.
This thread is actually quite therapeutic

My sister is 2” taller than me, and had dainty size 5/6 feet. Not fair .

@Ginkypig good point! 😀

I think my self consciousness stems from my dad making fun of my 'cloddopers' and jokes about chopping my toes off. He was amazing in every way but definitely gave me a complex! The comment from my friends husband definitely shocked me

What was your dad thinking? I’m sure that he was lovely in many ways but what was he thinking??

We might be able to pass that off as old fashioned attitudes (maybe) but that’s no excuse for your friend’s husband’s behaviour. Sounds like he wanted to have a dig at you. Are you taller than him (possibly), cleverer than him (almost certainly) or possessed of other qualities he envies? There’s your answer, I reckon.

I’m 5’4” (just) and have been a size 8 since I was 11.

My hands are small, and I’m short all over. I just had the feet (and weight, sigh) of someone much taller...

My dad used to sing this to me!

I'm a 42 and at 5 11 I think my feet are pretty small for my height. My DD (same height) is a 43 and more in proportion.

I've got size 8s and as many others have said I felt so awful about them especially when I was younger. I'm 5'11'' so their in proportion. It's more my toes that upset me. One is much longer than my big toe . I've passed this weird toe thing onto my 3 daughters too! Not that I'm ever going to put my insecurities on them. There is a new business called Otto + Ivy which cater from size 42 to 46. The founder is called Laura, I used to read her blog 'all the tall things' ottoandivy.com/ they look so gorgeous!

Like others my feet reached size 8/9 around 11/12, before puberty and when I was a very skinny person around five feet tall. I was self-conscious then, I looked like Minnie Mouse. The benefit of filling out is that I'm now in proportion, 5'8" tall and quite happy with my feet. Not quite so happy with the ranges with 41s masquerading as 8s, and many 42s aren't big enough. I know that I just can't shop for shoes in most places where the biggest size doesn't fit. And don't get me started on the standard shoe shop assistant line, "the biggest we have is a 7, do you want to try it?"

Some people have mentioned width - I’ve found it even harder to find shoes since they brought in all these extra wide ones, as my feet are not wide. No website lets me filter those out.