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Footwear Australia

Here is a list of Australian stores that offer women's shoes in large to extra large sizes (up to Australian size 16). These companies come highly recommended. Please feel free to use the rating function in order to grade the websites. Comments are also welcome.

Please remember that a lot of American companies ship globally these days.

They have large size women's shoes in up to AUS size 15.

As one of the oldest surviving family businesses in Australia, the Rosenberg family have been providing Australia with the very best footwear in extra large, wide and small fittings since 1903. Stuart Rosenberg, great-grandson of the founding D. Rosenberg, and passionate staff now continue the family tradition – offering up to date fashions from Italy and France as well as providing a variety of Australia's leading brands coupled with good old-fashioned service and value.

Today, more and more young people are wearing larger sizes, and at Rosenberg’s we do our best to provide the most fashionable and best-priced shoes on the market. Our extensive range means that customers, both male and female, have the best possibility to find large, small and broad-fitting footwear to suit their age and occasion.

As well as specialising in footwear, Rosenberg’s now also carries extra long jeans, slacks and tracksuits for women, which have been specifically designed for women over 178cm (5’10”) tall.

Rosenberg’s is still situated in the original building at 65 Chapel Street, Windsor, however many of our interstate and overseas customers enjoy the convenience and reliability of our mail and phone order service, as well as internet ordering.

We look forward to welcoming you to our store and personally showing you through our current season’s styles.

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The Shoe Garden

All their shoes go from a size 10 to a 12 as a minimum and they have a lot of 13s and some 14s and 15s.

It took me about four hours to decide to open The Shoe Garden. From another perspective, it also took 30+ years!

In early November 2011, after an exceptionally busy year and nearly 10 years in fundraising and many more as a journalist and PR manager, I woke up physically, emotionally and mentally exhausted after a major event. I was spent and I needed a change. It took about four hours to realise what I really wanted to do – leave my established career, take a risk and open my own Size 10 and Up women’s shoe shop.

So I resigned and gave 11 weeks’ notice, sold my house and rented it back just as I had planned, and began using my own capital to create The Shoe Garden.

I was so lucky. I found the perfect premises near where I live, opposite a lovely park in a charming cottage on popular Riding Road in Hawthorne.

I came across a few hurdles (like buying stock for winter when everyone only wanted to sell summer stock that I wouldn’t see until August at the earliest; problematic when I was opening in April!) but all these challenges were surmountable, especially with the kindness and patience of all the people I have come across in establishing my business.

My parents have been extraordinary. Their kindness and support are always constant and most appreciated, yet they went above and beyond to help me create my business, with anything from cleaning windows to building shelves, putting up wallpaper and giving sage advice that I have treasured.

My friends have also been amazing – without exception, so encouraging and positive.

And my customers … what can I say? I have been hugged and high fived and made to feel so special by so many women with longer feet who now have a range of gorgeous shoes available to them. They truly make my job not so much a job but a happy adventure filled with laughter and divine shoes!

As I say at The Shoe Garden, no nanna shoes or comfort shoes are allowed! When sourcing all my shoes I have and will always have two criteria: they have to be available up to at least a Size 12, if not longer, and they have to be gorgeous!

I look forward to welcoming you to The Shoe Garden soon.
Carol & CC

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Women's shoes in large sizes

We all know how hard it is for tall women (or women who simply have larger feet) to find suitable footwear. As a matter of fact I have friends who wear a size 16 (mens)!

That's why I have compiled a list of selected stores that sell women's shoes in large sizes as required by most tall women. Most of the stores have a selection of shoes in up to at least a (US) size 12. Plus: I'm always adding new stores to the list. If you know of a company that is not listed This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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