Shopping for Men's Shoes is Hard Work

Shopping for men's shoes is quite the frustrating ordeal for me, as a man needing new shoes from time to time. My feet are not exceptionally big or abnormal in any way other than the fact that I do need to wear wide sizes as opposed to just normal "medium" shoes as they are called. In my quest to find a fitting pair of shoes I have discovered most major retail stores do not carry the wide sizes and even though the actual chain stores ala stores that ONLY sell shoes do carry wides: new issues arise. Let me start this by telling you what I wanted in a shoe last time I was shopping: something plain, preferable black, and comfortable. I already own dress shoes and just wanted an every day sneaker. Why did I have so much trouble?

1. Skater shoes. I am not a skater, but most of the selection for men's shoes here in California, where I currently reside, are geared towards that culture. Personally I cannot stand skater shoes because of the big fat tongues on them. They look and feel stupid, bad stupid; not good bad or good stupid.

2. Skull and Gangbang Bling. A good majority of the shoes available for men have cartoon drawings or designs featuring skulls and skeletons. I would think them to be quite cool if I were an eight year old kid, but I'm not. Hell, now that I think of it you would be hard pressed to find any t-shirts these days without some sort of skull design on the front. Other than skinless apparitions the shoes feature either cartoon pictures of Mexican style gang members or jewelry and money. Once again, I'm not eight years old and even if I was a gangbanger I would feel retarded wearing such items, not to mention I wouldn't be in a Mexican gang anyway: I am as white as they come. So, naturally, I would find a big black gang member to emulate.