"I've got three bags [of shoes] in my closet just waiting for Genene. I've been waiting for her for years."

"I've got three bags [of shoes] in my closet just waiting for Genene. I've been waiting for her for years."

September 15, 2019

Said Jessica Gray, who has a size 7 left foot and size 9 right foot, upon discovering a woman with a size 9 left foot and size 7 right foot. (Reported at CBC via my son John on Facebook.)

"I am so excited to be able to finally talk to someone with not only the same issue as me but the exact same issue as me, like the size 7 and the size 9, and like maybe we can do some online shopping together soon," said Gray.

Both women have always had to buy 2 pairs of the same shoe every time they bought shoes. The women found each other through the internet. (Here's the Facebook group: flip flopped feet.) But why doesn't the internet give us a shoe store that lets you buy shoes mixing the sizes? Why can't Zappos mix sizes?

In fact, why isn't custom-sized clothing much more of a thing on the internet? Sizing is extremely important with shoes, which are not stretchy like so many clothes and which can't be taken to a tailor for altering, but I've been wondering why the opportunity isn't seized to make perfectly fitting clothing. How many women buy poorly sized pants because their waist/hip ratio is different from what's in the conventional sizing?

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