Do Ghillie Brogues Exist in Wide Sizes?

[Dreadbelly]

I wear a size EEEE and on some days, my foot is even wider due to rhuematiod making the joints near my toes swell a bit.

I too, would be quite interested in finding some brogues in that width. Also, I need crazy good arch support. You can roll a baseball under my foot.

Which is why I wear Birkenstocks. They offer an obcenely wide size that fits 4E to 6E, which is what I wear.

Oh, and Ron, that size D on wide is a skinny size D.

Oh... Forgot to mention. The guy that runs the Barefoot Comfort Shoe Store where I bought my birkies told me that a European 4E is more like an American 5E. Perhaps... We should look for brogues from Europe?

[Riverkilt]

Thanks Dred,

I'm an American 4E too. Some shoe sales folks act like D is a wide shoe...nooo it ain't.

Guess we'll keep looking. Maybe we can get New Balance to do a Ghillie

Ron

[A Dhuglas]

Dred - the more I encounter your posts, the more convinced I am that we're related somehow. Either that or we're doubles. Wide feet and high arches? Too familiar, dude.

Aside from my belly the biggest challenge I have is finding interesting wide footwear. Thank God for New Balance and other enlightened manufacturers. The folks with whom I've chatted at Piper's Cove and another gal with a highland wear shop north of me had the same response: forget about finding off-the-rack ghillie brogues (UK-made or otherwise) -- nobody makes them in our widths.

Which I find really discriminatory...

Guess I need to see if the shoe-alteration path is valid.

[Severian]

I'm a 4E, too, and I'm thinking Rockports or sandals will have to do if no Ghillies are to be found.

[Dreadbelly]

Dred - the more I encounter your posts, the more convinced I am that we're related somehow. Either that or we're doubles. Wide feet and high arches? Too familiar, dude.

Aside from my belly the biggest challenge I have is finding interesting wide footwear. Thank God for New Balance and other enlightened manufacturers. The folks with whom I've chatted at Piper's Cove and another gal with a highland wear shop north of me had the same response: forget about finding off-the-rack ghillie brogues (UK-made or otherwise) -- nobody makes them in our widths.

Which I find really discriminatory...

Guess I need to see if the shoe-alteration path is valid.

I made a post in the off topic section with your pic, Rob's pic, and my pic. We all look remarkably similar in various various ways. You should take a look.