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DSW Shoes
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Category: Shoe Stores [Edit]
5207 Brodie LnSunset Valley Homestead
Sunset Valley, TX 78745
(512) 891-6777
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
11 reviews for DSW Shoes
I love shoes. If it came down to saving my shoes in a fire or saving my birth certificate...well, you can always order another birth certificate, right?
Very much like Tara H.'s mom, I too have to smuggle shoes into the house after a shopping trip at DSW. It's just what I do.
What I don't like about shopping for shoes at the mall is the feeling that I'm constantly being stalked, having someone watching over me in case I show an interest in the shoe, ready to come in and scoop up the commission on the sale. Shoe shopping is my therapy, and I don't need you around. At DSW, the sales peeps leave you alone and only offer to either 1) give you a bag to put your shoes in or 2) hold items at the register while you continue to look around (this happens when you buy in bulk). No stalking at all.
I've called this store many times just to check to see if they have a shoe in stock in my size, and they are always helpful. The phone on-hold time can be a little long, but they ARE searching through a warehouse looking for my glass slipper, so I understand.
A tip if you shop a lot here for shoes - join their reward program. It's free, and you get points for gift certificates and whatnot. You can track your points online and see when you'll be getting a certificate. Also, by joining their mailing list, you get discount cards and other goodies. They send just enough info to keep you interested, but not so much that you want to get off of their mailing list. Oh, and if you join the reward club, you also get a discount on your birthday.
Once upon a time, I really liked to shop. In college, I thought taking credit at my three favorite stores would be an excellent idea. I realized how awful an idea it was when I maxed all three out within a year and had no income - oops. Why did they give me credit in the first place? Luckily, they all had a very small line of credit, so when I say maxed out all three, we're not talking thousands of dollars. My dad had to give me a binge shopping intervention. I briefly relapsed in graduate school on student loan money, but I wised up and instead wasted some of the loan on a Caribbean cruise. Oops again.
Between not being much of a shopper now and my complete hatred of shoe shopping, I had never set foot in a DSW. Why do I hate shoe shopping? Because stores don't carry many sizes of my big foot, a 9.5 to a 10. My mom told me when I was younger that a big foot meant I'd be tall. I began practicing my model walk in anticipation of my 5'11 height, but then I never hit 5'6. I always get disappointed finding a pair of shoes, and then having the sales person not have my size. Not to mention, I hate pulling a bunch of shoes and having to wait around for the guy to come back. It's just not fun.
I knew DSW was a pull yourself store, but I was thinking it was more in line with Rack Room Shoes, who never had my sizes either. I needed boots though, and I didn't have the patience to deal with the mall on a Saturday, so I figured I'd pop in. When the doors opened, it was like a light beaming down from the heavens. I heard angels sing. Half the huge store was full of cute boots on display. Too good to be true, I thought. They won't have my size. Except, they did. In every boot I wanted to try on, they had my size. This has pretty much never happened to me. Instead of being faced with not enough options, I had tons of options! I rolled up my yoga pants, but on a pair of stiletto boots, and I swear I could hear Tyra Banks telling me to work it out. I walked in alone, but there were plenty of women around trying on shoes for me to get opinions. I ended up finding a brown and a black pair of boots, and I eagerly ran home to try on the brown boots with a new dress I bought and was just giddy.
Maybe I am a shoe shopper after all. Thankfully, DSW does not offer credit, not that I'd take it anyway. These days I shop on a buy now, starve later basis.
I like to go to DSW and try on all the shoes I have been stalking on line. DSW usually has the ones I want but sometimes they're cheaper and sometimes they're more expensive. So it really depends if I buy anything here or not. Today I got a pair of flats I've been wanting on sale for 60% off so I ended up paying like 20 bucks! Nice, it's deal like this that's worth 4 stars to me.
I was raised with a mother who has both a shoe and a handbag fetish. I've seen her drop $600.00 at DSW before and then have to smuggle the stuff into the house day after day so my dad doesn't know she bought it all at the same time. Which is kind of hilarious.
Oops. I just outed Mom. Sorry Mom. Get help! Seriously.
That being said, I love this DSW's back room. Aren't all the back rooms the same, you ask? No, darling, no. Not all DSW's are created equal. You see, they stock the stores according to the neighborhood. Which is probably why you don't see many DSW's in the hood. Ba dum dum.
I always hit the back room first as it has the best deals. Once, I scored four pairs of shoes (Nine West, Carlos Santana, etc.) for $40.00. The back room is awesome.
Once I've exhausted that, I hit up the front room. It's loosely laid out by shoe type. Boots, athletic, heels, wedges, etc. etc.
I rarely leave DSW without a pair or two, because, well, as a fat girl, HELL, as a girl, nothing makes you feel quite as beautiful and feminine as a new pair of shoes.
Instead of a faux-brick facade, perhaps clouds should line the walls of this shoe warehouse. Because the room's roughly the size of the sky. It's that big. Ginormous. Expansive. Did I mention big? It's damn big.
At any rate, they subscribe to the large chain theory with regard to shoes, that being you apparently buy in bulk so you can knock off the prices of individual pairs. And there are hundreds of pairs to choose from. It's primarily a women's shoe store, no question, but about a third of it seems to be devoted to guy's steppers, with each about 25% below what you'd fork over elsewhere. It's not a perfect formula: there's small chance you'd find a really great boutique set of shoes that no one else would have, but for the money, there's a large enough selection that if you need a new pair of shoes on the fly you can find something that fits the bill here without breaking the bank in the process.
And that's enough to make even the stingiest penny pincher high-step all the way to a night on the town.
Actually, this place is not bad.
I say that hesitatingly because, in general, I avoid malls and chain stores like this as if they were infected with plague. But I ended up in here one afternoon after a visit to PetSmart when it started pouring rain and I was waiting for it to clear up.
I walked out with a pair of BC flats that, as it turns out, match my little dog. I am not that kind of person. I do not match my shoes to my bag or my hair or my jewelry. Or my dog.
But he is cute, and the shoes are cute, and they happen to go together perfectly. So, I will endure the snickers when we go for walks. Although, in my neighborhood, it's possible that people could actually think I've finally gotten my sartorial act together--which is even more frightening than accidentally matching your shoes to your dog.
The truth is I'm just bitter because I have huge feet and I could only find a couple of ugly options over size 10. Now before everyone laughs at me take a moment to feel my pain. There, it hurts, doesn't it?
Back in CA I relied on DSW for my bigfoot, vegetarian shoe needs. DSW was kind enough to red flag the "odd" sized shoes with colorful stickers, so those of us with special needs could cut to the chase and not waste our time slobbering over some pointy-toed boot of perfection that would have no chance of fitting us. For some reason this particular DSW - or perhaps all DSWs these days - no longer add these stickers to their boxes. So I had to fruitlessly wander the aisles looking for shoes that, I would find, do not exist in this part of the country. And I thought everything was bigger in Texas!!
For everyone else, though, enjoy this DSW, because it's huge and has a load of wonderful shoes that I will never be wearing. [Wipe away tear].
Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! DSW is the place for shoe-aholics. DSW has rows and rows and rows of shoes. Athletic shoes. Dressy heels. Flip flops. Sandals. Work pumps. Boots. If I'm looking for shoes, DSW is my first stop. Lots of brands. Lots of styles. I'm usually guaranteed to walk away with at least one pair.
But I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that some of the shoes there are fugly too. That's part of the fun though...cute shoe...cute shoe...WTF? Who wears this shoe?!...cute shoe... And then sometimes you try the really fugly ones on with the thought that they MUST look better on than they do in the box. And they don't. And that's how they end up on the clearance rack...
The clearance rack! With some hunting, I have found some great shoes on the clearance rack. A colored sticker on the box will let you know how much percent off the shoes are (usually it's 30 or 40%, but there are some pairs that are 70 or 80% off).
DSW is all self-serve shoe shopping. If you see a shoe on display that you like, right below it is that shoe in all the sizes they have. So easy to quickly try something on!
While the shoes aren't always cheap (there are pairs at $100+), they are all supposedly discounted. In addition, there's the clearance rack...
The very cool thing about this DSW is that it is different inside from any other DSW I have been in. Usually DSWs are very very bright and very very white inside. Almost glaring. This DSW has a much more toned down interior. It was very pleasant.
DSW is a great place to look for shoes and I find this location especially nice.
I couldn't figure out why this DSW seemed so much more organized than the north location, then I realized that the benches are off to the side instead of the middle of the aisle, so there is plenty of room to walk around.
A very nice selection of shoes. I was specifically looking for some closed toed black heels and there were lots to choose from. I didn't end up buying any, because I was hoping not to spend more than $40, but it seemed like all the ones I really liked were $60-$80.
This place frightened me!
I walked in through the gigantic doors, and there was this thumping, loud, jungle-invoking music (lots of bass and synth, maybe some inhuman howling), odd low-but-still-glowing lighting, a huge, high ceilinged room practically empty of anything but sterile looking leather shoes in wide, spacious rows. I was overwhelmed.
I walked through the rows of boots just to get my bearings. I didn't want any boots that day, and after that dizzying walk, I never really wanted to buy boots again. They were like snakes surrounding me and threatening me: "Must buy overpriced leather goods! Now!"
I found my way back to the sale section (behind some curtains in the very back) and honestly wasn't that impressed, despite the voluminous selection. It was hard to tell navy from black in the lighting, and it was arranged by size -- but I guess they were trying to make the selection look more diverse, so instead of putting all 5 pairs of one kind of shoe together, I kept coming across the same shoe in different rows of my size.
After getting my bearings, I headed back out to the non-boot heels section. Nice variety, but nothing I wanted under $50, which was my self-imposed pricing limit.
Go here with an open mind and a ready-to-open wallet, and you'll find something really cool and classy, I bet.
DSW. this is short for designer shoe warehouse. i dont know why, but in my mind the word 'warehouse' made me think that maybe the shoes would be sold at discount, (warehouse?), prices. this may be the case to some extent but not to the extent to which my fantasic brain had expected. however, the word 'warehouse' also made me think of a cold, dirty metal building and i was relieved that this was not the case. very new, very shiny, very GIANT. my husband and i hopped in here after an unsuccessfull tennis shoe (for him) expedition at the mall. he doesnt like shopping but maybe since we were in a modern day 'warehouse' it made him feel more comfortable? he actually consented to sitting and trying on several pairs of new balance and we found more than one pair at an agreeable price. we didnt see any sales people but that was ok because the shoes are all out and organized so you can find the size/style easily yourself. we also went close to closing and didn't have to deal with any crowds. after finding the perfect tennis shoes for him, we did a walk through of the women's section. very expensive. exclusive brands, great selection, not so happy price. i'm just not a $100 heels kinda girl. but if you are, this is the place for you! i was gonna give it two stars but it i'm just so happy about finding those tennis shoes and i know i will be back with my husband. so here's to three!