My 11 month old daughter has got pretty wide feet (size H) which makes buying shoes for her hard and expensive. £38 for a pair of Clarkes shoes that she’ll grow out of within a couple of months!

Please can someone let me know of somewhere that stocks reasonably priced wide toddlers shoes? (btw, she is currently a size 3.5H)

thanks

This ‘bike forum’ gets stranger by the minute. 😯

oops. meant to post this on the chat forum!

I attribute my dropped arches to wearing shoes that were too big when I was a nipper. Too much space and pulled up too tight. No science behind it though.

Have you got an outlet village nearby? We’ve got one with a Clarks in there – typically half the price of the usual stores, making it somewhat more paletable.

£38 for a pair of Clarkes shoes that she’ll grow out of within a couple of months!

Suck it up.

Clarks are the only ones that we found. Don’t get cheap shoes for your kids, that’s an economy not worth making imo.

Yep, agree with molgrips

decent footwear thats measured properly is a must imo

you can normally sell stuff on ebay for a return when it gets too small. Profit from other parents lack of care!

You can try specialist kids shoe shops for alternatives to Clarks that come in width fitting.

It will make Clarks look very reasonably priced.

As above, outlet village or sales. Look after them and sell them on.

How old and what size btw? We have few cast-offs size 7 and below I think.

Oh you did say. I’m not sure lil Grips EVER had size 3.5 feet, but will ask Mrs Grips 🙂

Let them go barefoot. Not to save money but because it doesn’t do to take millions of years of evolution and stuff it in a shoe. I wish I’d spent more time barefoot as a kid. Might not have problems now.

molgrips – thanks

Not to save money but because it doesn’t do to take millions of years of evolution and stuff it in a shoe

Millions of years of evolution gave us brains to fix problems with 🙂

Millions of years of evolution gave us brains to fix problems argue with

FTFY

“Cheaper” ones are available from Clarks.

http://www.clarks.co.uk/find/department-is-kids/gender-is-girls/product-is-20341211

My little one is a 4G and we paid £28 at the weekend for a pair. Your selection may be a little limited, but if you look online there are some available.

Her first pair, 3 1/2s, lasted 3 months BTW.

We started at 4G, Lilgrips is a G unfortunately, or we’d have quite a few to offload give to you. It really is tough because of the expense! We have got her crocs for the summer (but she’s walking). I’d agree with the outlets and I check Clarks sale items for half price shoes and then order them into store and try them before we buy (you have to do it this way). You don’t pay anything on the site, just order them and you pay in store…if you don’t want them they send them back free of charge.

good call about the Clarks website.

We mostly use an liocal independent shop who are a big Clarks stockist but also do Start-rite and others.

Canvass Doodles or the like are a good bet for summer months as they work out under £30.

We have also in the past had feet measured and then gone to an utlet type shop or even ebay to get something similar.

On the whole I think it’s worth getting the shoes spot on particularly in the younger years as much for the peace of mind as anything having said that not everyone can afford to do this.

If it’s a case of being able to pay the high cost for properly fitted shoes but hoping to find a better deal then jsut do it right.

If money is tight full stop then explore the alterantives as far as you can.

Another good site for her here

Don’t buy her shoes till she’s about 15 years old.
That way her feet will grow strong and healthy, and you’ll save yourself a fortune.

/edit, Ah I see onzadog has already hit the back of the net 🙂

Mini-clubber like his dad has very wide feet too. Can’t say it’s ever been a problem and we’ve never paid £38 for shoes (inc Clarks). Think you need to look around a bit more.

Doodles are brilliant BTW – good for summer, beach, sport, everything.

We’ve always bought Clarks shoes for our eldest son(now 6), hopefully his little brother will be of a similar size 😕 . If you go to the shop and watch carefully how they check to see if the shoes are a good fit you can then use the same method to buy shoes in other shops.Clarks are also really good with returns should you have any problems with excessive wear or heels collapsing ect , they nearly always have some shoes on sale in the shops anyway.

If you’re balking at at £38 pound shoes just you wait till she’s 4 and asking you for Lelly Kelly shoes , a woman at my lads school is paying £50+ for her daughters shoes.

If it’s a case of being able to pay the high cost for properly fitted shoes but hoping to find a better deal then jsut do it right.

Yep, that’s pretty much where I’m at. Want to get well fitting shoes, just dont see the point in spending loads when she is going to out grow them quickly and is too young to care about branding.
The Start-rite web site looks good, thanks.

just dont see the point in spending loads when she is going to out grow them quickly

You’re paying for them to make 8 different versions of each shoe in each size and to train their staff up for fitting etc etc that’s the point. Worth it for good shoes for me. Don’t want anything getting squished.

CM – You are a very bad man. 😀