I seriously want to add flexibility to my wardrobe, but I know I'm going to have to spend painfully for custom work due to not just my build in general but especially my foot size.

This mound of anxiety is built up around going to a tailor because I haven't before, and double that for a genuine shoemaker!

It's not that I don't love my body. It's that it's so annoying and/or expensive to clothe!

For the curious:

I stand at 190cm (around 6'2½"). I weigh around 127kg (280lb). My shape is that of a slightly odd masculine frame with around thirteenish years of girly hormones to make up for twenty-six years without.

Jeans, I can sort of find in almost the right proportions sometimes. Basically everything else is simply made wrong, and more so the more "gendered" it is.

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The worst part by far is my foot size. By any estimation on the US women's scale, I'm somewhere around 15~17 (men's 13½~14½) and 3W~5W? (men's 3E~4E).

I have a hard time finding anything that actually fits other than sportsy Axe-effect shoes (not really desired) or blocky-soled loafers – and even those are rare.

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