9 wide/8 wide Chaco Z-2 sandals

[Catrin]

I will take them if still available

[KnottedYet]

The Chacos have a new home!

One more member added to the Chaco cult....
(almost as pernicious as the Brooks cult. Almost.)

[malkin]

*jealous*

Chacos never, ever ever fit me. I love them. I have wanted them since I first set eyes on them in about 1980. I try them. I walk around REI begging them to be comfortable. We are simply irreconcilably different.

Then the Tevas laugh at me and rip their velcro and use the Darth Vader voice and say "It is your destiny."

Nobody ever said life was fair.

[KnottedYet]

*jealous*

Chacos never, ever ever fit me. I love them. I have wanted them since I first set eyes on them in about 1980. I try them. I walk around REI begging them to be comfortable. We are simply irreconcilably different.

Then the Tevas laugh at me and rip their velcro and use the Darth Vader voice and say "It is your destiny."

Nobody ever said life was fair.

I assume the folks at REI adjusted the straps and everything for you... but did they have you try a pair of wides, or a small pair of mens? I thought Chacos would never fit me (I was a Teva girl from back in the 1980's when they only came in S,M,L,XL and 2 styles), but once I got them adjusted right and when I found the miracle of wides, the world became a sexier place.

Honestly, I don't miss the Tevas.

Both are made in China now, so I have no deep loyalty like I did when each was made in the USA, but I do love the Chacos.

[Blueberry]

And the Toe Coop and the Ped Shed now come in wide. Happy dance! I'll try those for next winter

[KnottedYet]

And the Toe Coop and the Ped Shed now come in wide. Happy dance! I'll try those for next winter

Me, too! Especially the Toe Coop!

I held off this year, because I didn't like the colors offered in the mens sizes, and knew the womens regular width would not be a happy thing for me.

(Here's hoping my Chaco Arturos -leather fisherman's sandals- will hold together until I can get some Toe Coops!)

[zoom-zoom]

I didn't even know Chacos came in wides. My mom LOVES hers, but she has a narrow foot. I'm a Keen/Dansko girl, because they tend to fit my duck feet so well. Perhaps I should look around for some wide Chacos. My current Keen sandals are about shot.