Rectangle Toes, shoe brand help please...

[Tokie]

Have you tried men's cycling shoes? My husband has flippers too, and his Specialized shoes are the best fit he has found. I think the toe box on the specialized "torch" women's shoe is pretty generous too. Tokie

[teigyr]

I have Specialized road shoes. I believe they are the Torch and they are actually womens shoes The womens always have (imho) better colors.

For run shoes, I had been in mens 2EE but have some womens Brooks that fit me ok.

OH how I know the glory of nail polish and pedicures. This last time out, I wondered why the polish didn't grow out on one nail. Turns out the color (which was this blue with this pink pearl overtone on it) was the same color as the nail

The shoe thing, at least for me, required a lot of experimenting. I read up on who had wider sizes and then looked for those brands. The Specialized had mine for ridiculously cheap on their website. They're wearing out and they're not "forever" cycling shoes but for what I paid, I'm getting at least several years out of them.

[singletrackmind]

Have you tried men's cycling shoes? My husband has flippers too, and his Specialized shoes are the best fit he has found. I think the toe box on the specialized "torch" women's shoe is pretty generous too. Tokie

The problem I've personally had with men's shoes is the heel. I have a narrow set, they usually do not.

Flippers....most of my family have finger toes so I'm not sweatin' the flippers....

[Miranda]

Just a little update, no miracle cure shoes or solution as of yet, but any rate...

This pic is of the Northwave brand. This is a ladies road shoe size 41. You can see it's more "flipper foot" shaped. I took this shoe with some others to podiatrist guy # 2 today and he said this shoe is the closest yet. Also, he suggested that a quality shoe store could stretch it a bit. Since a few of you ladies were looking for brands to fit this shape, thought I would post it. BUT... omg, Northwaves are SO limited to find! I went to their web site and it's very limited. Plus, trying to find your size on the few that carry them. Anyone know how to get them, please chime in...



Oh, also on an additional fitting difficulty note... I thought I'd add this pic too. It's of my heel size (on the left), and DS (on right) who is 7yo (kids size 2 US). My heel is only a few MMs wider when we traced them. *sigh* guess how my 7yo boy heel fits in size 41 mens shoe? Crud... still searching....

[singletrackmind]

Hahaha, I'll have to try that though my boy's only 5...

Thanks for the update. For my next shoe I'll at least give Northwaves a shot if I can try before I buy. If the heel's too wide I'll pass, would rather have squishy toes than floaty heels when it comes to the bike.

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