18 Secrets Clarks Shoe Fitters Will Never Tell You

    In case you hadn't realised: Your feet stink.

    1. The smell of your feet makes us want to vomit.

    2. There's nothing worse than going into the storeroom and opening a shoebox, only to find a single shoe.

    3. Especially when the the missing shoe is a ~display shoe~.

    4. Our uniforms are beyond terrible.

    5. We dread having to tell you that we don't have your size.

    6. But we love it when you ask us to ring other stores to check their stock.

    7. We also quite like being told to dust and clean the shelves.

    8. Remembering which shoes come in half sizes is a minefield.

    9. We will never, ever understand the rationale behind going shoe shopping with no socks on.

    10. If you enter the shop when the shutter is half down, we automatically hate you.

    11. Even though we have to offer it to you, you don't really need that Nubuck cleaner.

    12. We all consider quitting the week before the sale.

    13. We also consider quitting during the annual "Back to School" period, which gets more brutal every year.

    14. But we loved selling the shoes with toys in the bottom.

    15. We often fall in love with a new pair of shoes that come into stock, buy them, and lie to our friends about where they came from.

    16. We still can’t quite get our heads around why Clarks Originals are cool.

    17. We are all totally shoe-fit obsessed, even when we buy our own shoes from other shops.

    18. And finally, the best part of our job is fitting a baby’s first shoes and taking their Polaroid picture.