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grimhilde00 posted...

hell finding him any shoes and often expensive.

People today are kind of spoiled when it comes to that. Most shoe stores have at least a few size 13 shoes in stock, so you have a bit of selection and can generally get shoes when you need them. And even if you can't, you can always potentially go online and order whatever you need in your size.

But I've been 6'3" with size 13 feet more or less since middle school, and back in the 90s it was nearly impossible to find size 13 shoes (and god help you if you actually needed specialty shoes). Nearly every store topped out at 12, and half the time they wouldn't even want to order in larger sizes for you as a special order.

When I ran track I basically had to visit something like 30 different stores in about a dozen different towns before I could find a store that actually sold running cleats in size 13 (because the school provided shoes for everyone else... but they didn't have anything over size 12 either). Getting shoes was always a huge hassle.

I kind of love how easy it is for me to get shoes these days comparatively.

Yeah, it's still kind of hard to get anything over 13, but I've definitely seen a couple 14s and 15s in stores, which would have been completely unheard of 30 years ago.