Dear Manolo: Fix My Flat Feet

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Dear Manolo:

The make of shoe I've worn for years is no longer made, and I can't find a replacement in my price range. I have very wide, flat feet.
— JOHN

MANOLO SAYS, in such situations, the Manolo always recommends the custom-made shoes, as nothing can compare to the fit. Unfortunately, even the least expensive can run to many hundreds of the American dollars. To the Manolo, such costs are justifiable, as nothing makes the Manolo as unhappy as shoes that do not fit well, except perhaps the ugly shoes that do not fit well.

But others have the more prosaic attitude, and so for them the Manolo would recommend the new Dunham Battery Park Oxford ($104, Zappos.com), available up to the size 20 in length and in the width EEEEEE (that is six E's, for those you who lost count). This brand, it is the new sub-brand of the New Balance, whose athletic shoes each morning grace the feets of the Manolo, and so you know they must be good.

Photo Courtesy of Zappos

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