Dries Verwaest from Oud-Turnhout lives on a grand scale. Literally, but as a 14-year-old, shoe size 48.5 is not a gift: just try to find a fashionable pair of shoes. “He would like a pair of sneakers from Nike, but the model he prefers cannot be found in his size,” says mother Saskia Van Loo. Our feet have grown on average two sizes larger over the past fifty years, but is the market responding sufficiently to this?
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