Frankly, this blog is a mess. Better fix it up before I show it to Rowena...

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Size 42

Almost all chain shoe stores stock women's shoes to size 10, or 41 1/2. Quite a few of them only stock women's shoes to size 41, and then pass them off as 10s. Sometimes, it's just that the sales assistants don't care enough, so they use a formula like this:

10 = 41
9= 40 etc.

Which we 42s know is not possible.

Size 42s are used to dealing with reality. They know you cannot fit a 42 foot into a 41. They have long ago learned how detach from the perfect shoe, because the chances of that perfect shoe actually being available in a 42 are slim.

Size 42's (and above) are the ultimate pragmatists. See a Ferragamo ins 42 brown but not black? DYE IT. Need a wedding shoe but there's only 41 1/2? SLINGBACKS.

Size 42s are used to dealing with the other kind of woman, the kind who thinks it doesn't really matter if they get the conversion wrong. WHAT ARE YOU WHINING FOR, you big OAF?

This site is dedicated to my little sister, Rowena, who is actually a 42 1/2. For all of our latter adolescence, I was a 10 (41 1/2) and she was a 10 1/2 (42). Plus, she was a narrow fitting. The only shoes available to her were granny courts or rollers, Docs etc. I got my extra 1/2 size after my second pregnancy. I finally felt her pain (literally).

Rowena's shoe size had some bearing on the way she grew her personality. Rowena is proudly punk. She is the earth mother, non-scary type of punk. Her daughter is going to grow up to have big feet too. Better for having one's feet firmly planted on the earth