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You're talking about widths, right? You can definitely buy varying widths, but only some brands sell wide shoes, and even then, you are very limited. (I have very wide feet. Saucony is pretty much the only brand that consistently has models that can fit me.)

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I recently went shopping for boots that I can get work done on a step clay hillside. I went through the entire store (whose primary merchandise is boots) to end up with exactly one pair that didn’t squeeze my feet the wrong way.

Running shoes in the past was a similar struggle.

Some people hate looking at toe-shoes (aka VFFs) but they consistently fit like a glove for me. Too bad they don’t support at all!

yep. wide toes, normal heels. i ended up in toe shoes too.

Yeah. Widths are very badly defined. I also have wide feet; in Europe I find that some random Ecco models fit me well, but finding them is a puzzle every time. They're even worse than Apple when it comes to model name consistency over the years.

/Worse/ than Apple? But…Apple enjoy designating something like "Model: M1136" and using that same designation over, seemingly, decades of variation, such that Apple staff have to ask about various attributes to identify anything: "You say that's a 2019 iMac? Does it have x RAM or y RAM? An n GB drive, or o GB? With ATI FoonlyX 646 graphics? Late 2019 or early?"

Somehow, Apple Computer Inc. were somewhat competent to select model numbers, but Apple, Inc. is not. (-:

Check out some of the "barefoot shoes" brands. They tend to run wide. Lems are comfortable on day 1.

https://www.lemsshoes.com/

Beware, that website is unusable. I have very wide feet and only moderate nearsightedness. The Lems site has white text on yellow backgrounds, overrides browser chosen font size, and seems to distort badly on zoom on my iPhone. I like really can’t read or use the website. You lost a potential customer, idiots in Lems marketing team. Do some real world testing next time.

I also have wide feet. I discovered Merrell has wide sizes of outdoors shoes. I found models fit and I like, and just keeping buying them as they wear out.

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