>I am sick of this. I am a small person (5'7") and have difficultly finding freakin' size 8 shoes. What gives? 10 years ago there was footwear-a-plenty.

Count me in the "hard to buy" shoes folks. I wear a 7 extra-wide and can only find them in a few stores. My solution has been to know what those stores are and frequent them.

Tamar