Why are shoes no-mod?

But that's a conscious decision the recipient has made, not to have IMs sent to email, or to ignore the emails so sent. It's not as if "capped" IMs aren't processed at all. If I tried that excuse on my customers, they'd all know I was blowing smoke.

I think the problem with male avatars is that they don't look good with small feet at size zero. If you try to resize the feet to look normal any prim shoes that cover it will look too big. So you basically have to buy prim shoes that look good and have smaller feet than normal, or you can have regular sized feet and have big oversized shoes.

I think the same is true of female avatars. Prim shoes seem designed to fit on size 0 shoes, but when I go barefoot or wear mesh shoes I have to crank my foot size back up to 40 or 50, else I look like a foot-binding victim. No other female avs find this? Or maybe no one else wears mesh shoes ever?

For that, you need a CopyBot like application (or Software That Must Not Be Named Here)--in which case lack of mod permission makes no difference whatsoever.

Wow, 40 or 50 is a lot. I don't think I've ever had to go any higher than like 8 when totally barefoot, and I'm only a little shorter than the average amazon.

My alt walks around barefoot - liberating!
I wish I could free my toes more often in RL as well.


Have you tried asking the creator? You're probably not the only one with size problems.
Jeepers Creepers gives excellent customer service and they have cool, funky shoes for men.
I don't know if he (Eponymous?) would make a smaller pair for you, but it's worth asking. He seems real nice and loves what he does...

Well, yeah, I wrote such a script myself for making my main character be creator of stuff I made as my alt, lest my alt start getting customer service calls. But there's only so much a script can do. It can't manufacture texture permissions from thin air, for example, and so it can't clone sculpties, nor the textures of quality prim shoes. For that, you need a CopyBot like application (or Software That Must Not Be Named Here)--in which case lack of mod permission makes no difference whatsoever. (Note that a well-known texture loop-hole--that I won't describe further--is patched in the more recent viewer versions.)But that's a conscious decision the recipient has made, not to have IMs sent to email, or to ignore the emails so sent. It's not as if "capped" IMs aren't processed at all. If I tried that excuse on my customers, they'd all know I was blowing smoke.

Apropos suggestions that I go into the shoe-making business or make them freebies: to be fair, yeah, I suppose the reason this bugs me so much is that I *could* make my own shoes--and, in the past, I *have* out of desperation. I already do all my own scripting, structural building, lots of textures, a skin, some clothes, and some animations. But you know, I'm *busy*; I'd kinda like to be able to buy *something*!

But I did finally find some men's shoes sized realistically at (of all places) Aitui. They're kinda funky sculpty slippers, but one of the variants is almost passable if one doesn't look too close. Of course, being sculpties, for the first five minutes while I'm rezzing to another viewer I look like I'm wearing fuzzy grey bocce balls on my feet, but eventually I look reasonably shod. Kinda.

I think the same is true of female avatars. Prim shoes seem designed to fit on size 0 shoes, but when I go barefoot or wear mesh shoes I have to crank my foot size back up to 40 or 50, else I look like a foot-binding victim. No other female avs find this? Or maybe no one else wears mesh shoes ever?

But that's a conscious decision the recipient has made, not to have IMs sent to email, or to ignore the emails so sent. It's not as if "capped" IMs aren't processed at all. If I tried that excuse on my customers, they'd all know I was blowing smoke.