Hallo,
This is long - sorry!
I've gradually developed bunions, oddly when I was younger I didn't wear pointy toed high heels, I mainly lived in trainers and Doc Martens - the fab shoe thing is something that I've only recently started doing.
I've been breaking in my kid Yoyos and found that my bunions are a bit sore. I was also very naughty and ended up buying a pair of purple patent Simple 70mm pumps at the weekend even though I had banned myself until the autumn!
Both styles seemed fine when I tried them on. I went into the shop in the late afternoon after walking around all day both times, i.e. my feet should have had time to swell up to the max that they ever would normally. However now I have them at home they both feel a bit tight across the toe box. I am a bit (no, very) depressed about this as I love the shoes and bought them to wear, not just to admire. If I'm stuck in a boring meeting just looking at them on my feet makes me feel happier. However I don't want to do any long term damage to my feet so I am going to limit the time I spend in them.
My question is whether it is work trying to get the toe box stretched around the bunions? Has anyone done this and did it work? Also I remember a while back a thread about putting rubbing alcohol inside patent shoes and wearing them with socks to stretch them, did this work?
If you've stuck with it up to this point, thanks very much. I am surprisingly upset at the thought of not being able to wear my lovely CLs. Partly it is the waste of hard earned money and partly the thought that, after a brief glimpse of CL paradise, I will be cast into the outer darkness that is ugly, practical, ortho shoes.
This is long - sorry!
I've gradually developed bunions, oddly when I was younger I didn't wear pointy toed high heels, I mainly lived in trainers and Doc Martens - the fab shoe thing is something that I've only recently started doing.
I've been breaking in my kid Yoyos and found that my bunions are a bit sore. I was also very naughty and ended up buying a pair of purple patent Simple 70mm pumps at the weekend even though I had banned myself until the autumn!
Both styles seemed fine when I tried them on. I went into the shop in the late afternoon after walking around all day both times, i.e. my feet should have had time to swell up to the max that they ever would normally. However now I have them at home they both feel a bit tight across the toe box. I am a bit (no, very) depressed about this as I love the shoes and bought them to wear, not just to admire. If I'm stuck in a boring meeting just looking at them on my feet makes me feel happier. However I don't want to do any long term damage to my feet so I am going to limit the time I spend in them.
My question is whether it is work trying to get the toe box stretched around the bunions? Has anyone done this and did it work? Also I remember a while back a thread about putting rubbing alcohol inside patent shoes and wearing them with socks to stretch them, did this work?
If you've stuck with it up to this point, thanks very much. I am surprisingly upset at the thought of not being able to wear my lovely CLs. Partly it is the waste of hard earned money and partly the thought that, after a brief glimpse of CL paradise, I will be cast into the outer darkness that is ugly, practical, ortho shoes.
Camel toe is when your pants are pulled up so high, you can see a split your hoo-ha.
