Shoe sizes |
One might have thought that buying shoes
without physically trying them on would, after all this time,
have gotten easier by now. |
There are two key measures - length and
width - as shown below. |
First, most, but not all, people
have identical measurements for both feet |
Then there's an issue of whether ankle
wraps are being worn, and, if so, do they extend under the foot. |
More commonly, how many pairs of socks
are being worn, and are the socks wool, cotton, polyester ... |
While the famed Godfrey Harold Hardy,
FRS (2/7/1877 - 12/1/1947) in 1940 did publish an eloquent text
titled |
A Mathematician's Apology
he neglected to apologize for the arithmetical
chaos underlying shoe sizes. |
So, either send your shoe size specifying
country and gender; or send the measurements as shown below; or
download |
our handy template; or check our
conversion table (links to the last two below) |