The costs of being half sized

One of the downsides of losing weight recently has been the amount I have had to spend on downsizing my wardrobe. Now that my weight has finally stabilised I have found myself in the unfortunate position of being half sized, not in the dwarf sense, but as a size 14 and a half collar and a size 7 1/2 foot.

Whilst people don’t call me names in the street I am however excluded from the majority of high street stores who either simply do not sell these half sizes or rarely have them in stock. So whilst others were over indulging in the post Christmas sales my search for a new pair of shoes was hampered by the lack of availability of anything in my size.

Having being largely shunned by the high street I moved my search online to one of the few retailers that do sell shoes in my size, Marks & Spencer. The only downside being that I would be forced to pay a delivery charge for the inconvenience of not being able to buy my particular size in their stores.

As stubborn as I am, there was simply no way I’d pay more just because they chose not to stock half sizes in their stores. So I held out for almost a month waiting for a voucher or discount of some kind to negate the £3.50 delivery charge. Eventually I found a 10% off code and was able to buy the shoes along with a new work shirt, both in the half sizes I needed and saving myself £3.44 off the in-store prices had they stocked my size.

And happily I can report both fit perfectly.