Chichi’s Lovely Big Feet Blog

Meet Chichi, the founder and writer behind the blog; ‘My Lovely Big Feet‘. She has devoted her knowledge and experience with her size UK 12 feet to helping others just like her to find the perfect style and fit when it comes to ladies larger shoes. So naturally I wanted to tell you all about her and her blog, keep reading to find out from Chichi herself about how her blog started and the footwear predictions for the coming season.

About My Blog
My Lovely Big Feet is a fashion shoe blog for women with large size feet. I came to the decision to start up this blog after coming across several fashion shoe blogs but none of them actually catered for women with large size feet. I thought to myself that if anyone should be qualified to talk about women with large size feet, it should be me. I have first hand experience on the troubles, shopping challenges that large size feet women go through to find beautiful shoes. And the reason for this is because I am UK Size 12.

Where my passion comes from?
I had always loved fashion as far back as I can remember especially shoes. I usually buy fashion magazines and admire all the lovely shoes the women are wearing, hoping that one day I will also be in the position to wear beautiful shoes. With the easy accessibility of technology and my love for beautiful shoes it means I could share with my fellow large feet ladies on the latest shoe finds in large sizes via my blog.

The number of emails I received each week on how helpful the blog has been to them simply confirms that the women large feet community have been under-served.

Favourite shoe sellers
My favourite sellers are the ones that I’ve actually bought from of which have been tried and tested as they cater for my size 12 feet. My favourite sellers are Ghigo (based in Italy), Kathryn Kerrigan and Barefoot Tess both based in the USA. They sell affordable shoes, hand crafted shoes and shoes for various occasions.

Latest finds – My fashion predictions for Autumn / Winter 2009
Ruffle, platform heel and animal print designs are going to be huge judging from what I’ve seen in fashion magazines and shops. One of my favourite ruffle designs is the Pasadena Ankle Boot by Long Tall Sally. Available in UK Size 7 to 11. Retail price is £50

For platform heel with animal print I would go for the brown croc platform heel pumps by Ghigo Calzature, which is available in Euro size 32 – 34 and 42 – 45. Retail price is 130 euros.

Fashion Industry Perception of Women with Large Size Feet
The fashion world believes that women have the same shoe size as Cinderella and this couldn’t be so much further away from the truth.

It pains me so much that well known high street retailers are usually proud to say that they sell large size shoes, but when you check them out they usually stop at UK Size 9 or in most cases 10 and in limited styles. It creates the impression that large feet women are not fashion savvy or are just abnormal.

I have to also say that many companies selling large size shoes are now opening up online to actually meet the demand of large feet ladies. Years back I could only count a handful of companies selling large size shoes. In the UK alone 4 online stores were opened last year and this trend is set to rise.

My ideal fashion shoe-shopping dream would be to walk into any of the high street shops one day and pick up a stylish pair of shoes from a wide selection.

Thank you to Chichi for taking the time to write for 100% People, take a look at her blog here.