She avoids high heels and looks for wide shoes, mostly flats with padding and boots for maximum comfort.

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Shoes with a wide toe box and narrow heel are undeniably ugly, he adds.

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Dale Bathum developed a preoccupation with footwear as a kid, when his wide feet hurt in running shoes.

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Women vendors, called comercian(ph), sell used shoes and charcoal along the wide, paved gutters.

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If you're looking for a new pair of shoes that won't squeeze your wide feet, a search engine can help, but a post on your Facebook wall will result in faster responses from your most trusted critics--your friends.

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On the other hand, if we buy shoes a size too large so that they are wide enough in the toes, the heel slips out, which can be annoying or even dangerous.

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Over them he buttoned a cuff-frayed and graying black cassock with its faint stink of him, waisted it with a hand-wide black cincture, snapped on a starched white Roman collar, and laced on his ankle-high black walking shoes.

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