Mukluks, mulkuks everywhere, but not a pair for you

Well, I have been looking for shoes as usual. Searching, tracing; wide and far. I found some shoes, some beautiful shoes but not many to fit me.

I want some Muluks or Uggs, or anything that will perform the same function. I need them to be big,to be fluffy, to be comfy.

I looked in all the usual places.

Tallgirl has some beautiful ones

http://www.tallgirls.co.uk/boots-1-2/sheepskin-ribbon-boot.html

but seeing them onsale at £100 quid kinda stung. I kept looking.

I found some finally in my size at a good price but the wrong width. I sometimes do that. I get so caught up with trying to find a size 10, I often forget that I still need to find a shoe at the right width.

So naturally my focus turned to width, I put in a search for wide width shoes. There were quite a few results. I know most of them but as they occassionaly update, I went looking again, in the minute hope that their changes would open up another avenue of choice for me.

http://www.shoetailor.com/

They are brilliant. But again not for me. I did not even open their site as google usefully told me wide range of sizes and widths, up to a 9.

http://www.duoboots.com/

These ones really wound me up, by saying "style is nothing without fit" The only width they were concerned about though, was the width of the calf. Yes, they have missed the point entirely

http://www.widefitshoes.co.uk/

I looked at their site. I checked out their shoes. I had a look at their logo."We care about your feet" they said. I wish to amend this to, "We care about your feet but not about your fashion!"

http://www.dbshoes.co.uk/

Who proclaim themselves "Specialists in wide feet"

You know when they said a picture is worth 1000 words except when you are thinking about the memory space on a computer?
I beg to differ, look at this shoe

What's not to like about this shoe? It's white, its shiny, its got holes cut in it, big stitches for no apparent reason, it would go perfectly with my skinny jeans, wouldn't it. And I really like the buckle, reminds me of being a little girl in primary school. And Hey!!!Retro is in, isn't it??!?!

The quest for the perfect coat

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Sooo, I have been looking fruitlessly for a coat for years without being able to ever get my hands on one. I decided that finally I must make one.
All I needed to do was to find a pattern, right. How hard could that be? But as, is usual with everything tall. I found nothing.
I changed my search terms around on google and spotted this site
Roz designs, I was immediately hopeful and even my heart may have started beating a bit faster in my chest, what would I find? Some nice snazzy designs? A few basic patterns? What? What? I clicked and found this site instead.

http://www.rozdesigns.com/

Now, I know design does not make the site and some sites have all kinds of fancy flash progams on it and their stuff is basically rubbish but this was just dire. What were these akward, dowdy drawn stuff meant to represent. And the prices? Could I bear to part with my hard earned cash for this?

I kept on searching as I had been hoping to come across a coat for years and sitting there looking irritaed at my computer screen wasn't going to help any.
I found a site which had decided to call itself the Giraffe, we have clothes to fit tall women it proudly proclaimed. I instantly decided it must have been created by a man as I don't know any woman who would describe her self in such a way. I noticed also the cute and endearing logo of a giraffe, who couldn't quite reach the floor. I am not sure why the nagle, was show ing the rear of the giraffe but as i said before, I suspected the site was designed by a man.

http://www.thegiraffe.net/

It reminded me of a store I once found in Brixton called Elephant feet that catered for sizes 9 and up. It was filled with a large ranged of beautiful high heeled impractical shoes and as usual really ugly dowdy falt shoes, occuping one shelf, in the corner colour range, black and shiny black. The joys.

I kept the page open in a tab, sighed bitterly then kept on my search. Then I came across a site about knitting. She was also tall looking for a perfect pair of lounge pants. They couldn't be knitted so she had actually signed up to go to a class to learn how to sew.
I wondered why google had brought me to this site then I noticed in the comments, people talking about being tall, then finally, the very last comment said try shopping in Old Navy

http://girlwhoknits.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/the-quest-for-the-perfect-lounge-pants/

So I dragged myself across the the multi tiered store they share with the other stranage souless names Gap, Banana Republic, Piperlime and Athleta. I had read about them doing a tall section but I didn't know the range or anything. Not only did Old Navy have a tall section but they had tons of clothes in the tall section. I got so excited with the tunic tops I had also been on the look out for appearing there. Finally clothes in just one colour with no horrible floral design, and there were tons of them and they were one sale.

They still didn't have any coats, well except for the white hooded coat. But I was definitely going to add that to my list of stores to visit on my upcoming america trip.

Now back to searching for patterns.