[HN Gopher] You Do Not Have a Shoe Size
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You Do Not Have a Shoe Size
Author : feross
Score : 27 points
Date : 2023-03-25 18:47 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| plg wrote:
| I don't understand why in the year 2023 with what ... 15 years of
| the "long tail" of the internet, we don't have mass market shoe
| companies that will scan your feet (e.g. in an in-store kiosk, or
| using your iphone (hello lidar!)) and then shop you shoes that
| fit your feet exactly.
|
| this from a guy with one foot size 12.8 and the other foot size
| 13.6. My feet have hurt every day since I was a teenager
|
| PS I would pay, like a lot, to get shoes to fit my feet exactly
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| Klayy wrote:
| I've been buying shoes online from eobuwie.pl for years. I
| scanned my feet once and that was it.
|
| Maybe a store like that doesn't exist in your country, but it's
| definitely a thing.
| Connor_Creegan1 wrote:
| Something similar exists: bondenoshoes.com
| crazygringo wrote:
| It still baffles me how different shoe sizes are for the same
| foot.
|
| I'm a 12.5 in most modern sneakers and a 12 in most modern dress
| shoes (already annoying that they label differently) but then I'm
| a 13 in certain New Balance and 11.5 in certain Converse.
|
| And this is just length, not width or anything. It's so bizarre
| they can't just work out a consistent measurement label for
| length.
| etrautmann wrote:
| Part of this issue is that sizing is a moving target on both
| sides. For many sports you size up or down for the desired
| performance fit, so companies don't want to buck the trend even
| if it's more accurate, since they'll end up with unhappy
| customers.
| tpmx wrote:
| Shoe sizes should be at least 2D.
| jrockway wrote:
| You're talking about widths, right? You can definitely buy
| varying widths, but only some brands sell wide shoes, and even
| then, you are very limited. (I have very wide feet. Saucony is
| pretty much the only brand that consistently has models that
| can fit me.)
| tpmx wrote:
| Yeah. Widths are very badly defined. I also have wide feet;
| in Europe I find that some random Ecco models fit me well,
| but finding them is a puzzle every time. They're even worse
| than Apple when it comes to model name consistency over the
| years.
| noman-land wrote:
| Check out some of the "barefoot shoes" brands. They tend to
| run wide. Lems are comfortable on day 1.
|
| https://www.lemsshoes.com/
| imoverclocked wrote:
| I recently went shopping for boots that I can get work done
| on a step clay hillside. I went through the entire store
| (whose primary merchandise is boots) to end up with exactly
| one pair that didn't squeeze my feet the wrong way.
|
| Running shoes in the past was a similar struggle.
|
| Some people hate looking at toe-shoes (aka VFFs) but they
| consistently fit like a glove for me. Too bad they don't
| support at all!
| steanne wrote:
| yep. wide toes, normal heels. i ended up in toe shoes too.
| simonblack wrote:
| As the man says, we need to shop for shoes just like clothing. I
| keep telling my wife that a dress size is merely a guide, and to
| start a size or two low then keep increasing till the dress fits.
| Who cares what that final number happens to be.
|
| I live in trainers. I have learned that my size and model is New
| Balance model 624 in a 4E wide and a size 42 European. I use the
| European sizing by preference because it gives a finer sizing
| than the British or American sizing.
|
| It's almost frightening that I can walk into the shoe store and
| walk out again in less than two minutes with my shoes.
|
| But if I want to buy any other shoes, I have great difficulty.
| Invariably, the shoes on sale are not wide enough. Sometimes I
| have bought shoes in a larger size like a 43 or even a 44 to get
| enough width. But almost invariably again, they are just NQR. And
| forget about elastic-sided shoes. They are just so tight that I
| can't even get my foot into the ones with the correct length. I
| would love a pair of espadrilles. Yeah, right. Dream on.
|
| As I said above, I live in trainers. They're the only ones that
| 'fit right'.
| nevertoolate wrote:
| I wear "barefoot style" sandals throughout the year. Winters are
| OK here with the occasional dip below freezing. I carry woolen
| socks as emergency measure. Picking size is easy, you only need
| to measure the sole area. If you go a bit above in size it is
| possible to cut down from the sole with scissors.
|
| This style of footwear makes my life a lot simpler.
| jrockway wrote:
| I can definitely relate to this. I feel like my shoes fit
| differently from day to day. Sometimes they're perfect. Sometimes
| it feels like my feet are going to explode my shoes from the
| inside. All very interesting.
| Overtonwindow wrote:
| Not to seem glib, but have you spoken to a podiatrist? The
| reason I ask, is that my chess teacher would complain about his
| shoes fitting differently every day, and his doctor found that
| it was just his feet swelled considerably. In his case, it was
| due to an underlining health issue
| gregors wrote:
| pro tip - use the EU sizing instead of the US. I've noticed I get
| on the whole much better results. I also wear a "13" but I
| noticed that the "13" that fit me generally are 47.5. I've seen
| the following sizes for the US "13" 46, 47, 47.5, 48 ....so I
| generally do better when I select sizes by the EU ones.
| sublinear wrote:
| Maybe I'm missing the point, but... well, why would anyone think
| that feet grow into discrete sizes like that or that the shoe
| sizes would be precise while still being comfortable?
| 0_____0 wrote:
| I suspect that people familiar with buying womens' wear are
| much less prone to this mistake, seeing as how one person might
| fit two or three size increments depending on brand.
| sublinear wrote:
| Sizes don't vary between brands as much as they vary between
| the materials used. That's true for all clothing. The second
| reason would be vanity sizing:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_sizing
| 0xcde4c3db wrote:
| Yet another reason is that quality control tends to be
| pretty terrible for anything but boutique/luxury brands
| (and even they have their missteps). There are situations
| where you can buy multiple of the same SKU and wind up with
| stuff manufactured in three different countries with
| obviously different fabric quality and measurements off by
| multiple inches.
|
| There's been something like a "marathon to the bottom"
| across things like clothing, shoes, and just about anything
| else textile-adjacent for almost a century. You can find
| articles from 50+ years ago lamenting how clothing used to
| last longer and have more consistent quality, and it's only
| gotten worse since then.
| russellbeattie wrote:
| My heal isn't shaped like everyone else's I think, so many nice
| shoes cut into my tendon so badly, I have to try every one to
| make sure I can walk without sharp pain.
|
| In college I bought a pair of Doc Martens and just about crippled
| myself before just giving up and taking a hammer to them. (Yes,
| literally.) After beating the crap out of the back of them I was
| finally able to use them without blood being shed. Not something
| you can do to most shoes though.
| michelb wrote:
| This is my problem as well. I usually have to modify the shoe
| or wear some tape or a silicone band around my foot. I would
| love to simply pick a shoe and have no pain.
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