The problems women have with big feet  August 26, 2005  Clare
Cahill has the whole world beneath her feet, and she hates it.
I'm putting my foot down. Watch out, it's very big. The other
one is big too. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I have
large feet.  Now, to most of you, generously sized feet probably
doesn't seem a physical characteristic worthy of complaint.
There are worse things, like an excessively hairy back. But
unfortunately, for a woman in her early 20s such a biological
attribute doesn't have the same beneficial associations as it
does for men. In fact the answer to the age-old question "You
know what they say about a girl with big feet?" is almost
inevitably "Get stuffed".  I am the leper of the shoe-buying
community. "We don't stock that size here" is a phrase I've
heard far too often. On the days I do get by the bigotry, the
buying of shoes becomes an event. Salespeople are unconvinced
when I request my size. They scoff. They seem sure no normal-
looking person like myself could sport