Once again I find myself having to go to the women’s side of a shoe store to buy a pair of shoes I wanted on the men’s side. Same style, same everything, just I have small feet for a guy and they don’t usually carry my size on the guy’s side. So I have to wander over to the lady’s side of the store and find the same damn shoe over there. But I can do this because I’m a gay guy and I have no masculinity to be afraid of loosing. Almost always I get the one I wanted over on the guy’s side in the first place. The only time I didn’t was because for some reason the shoe maker decided to put glitter on the women’s shoe and I am not a glitter kinda guy. I’m geek tribe gay, not fabulous peacock tribe.<\/p>\n
That conversion charts exist for this calculation tells me that lots of other people, men and women, probably have this difficulty. I take a 7 1\/2. That’s a 9 1\/2 in a lady’s size. But near as I can tell, if it’s tennis or walking shoes you’re looking for, it’s the same damn shoe. This also works for hiking and snow boots. Ask me how I know. The only issue is width. When they deign to carry a men’s 7 1\/2 the default width, which is ‘D’, is always right for me, but the default in women’s is narrower. So I have to ask for a 9 1\/2 ‘D’. A women’s 9 1\/2 ‘D’ fits me exactly the same as a men’s 7 1\/2 ‘D’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At least the salesguy at the store I was at didn’t ask me to at least try an 8 this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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