Recently, consumers are increasingly using the services of online stores. Purchasing shoes, often face such a problem as improper shoe size.

How to know the size of your leg will help a simple procedure that will take you a few minutes:

  • Put a sheet of A4 paper on the floor, putOn his foot and circle with a pencil. Keep it strictly vertical. For the correct result, step on the foot, transferring to her body weight, and relax your fingers.
  • Usually, the right and left foot differ in size. If you do not know which of the feet is bigger - circle both of them. The size of the larger leg will be your shoe size.
  • Take a tape measure or ruler and accurately measure the greatest distance from the most extreme point of the heel to the tip of the finger. Do this with the contours of both feet.

Now, according to the table, you need to determine whetherlength of the foot (in cm) to the standard size in Europe. Men's sizes: the size 40 is suitable for a foot length of 26 cm. Accordingly, the 41st for 26, 5 cm; The 42nd - 27 cm; 43rd - 27.5 cm; 44th - 28.5 cm; 45th - 29 cm.

Female European foot sizes are determined accordingly: the 35th - 22.5 cm; 36th - 23 cm; The 37th - 24 cm; The 38th - 24.5 cm; 39th - 25 cm; 40th - 25.5 cm.

Metric shoe numbering systems

In the post-Soviet space, the size of shoesDetermine the length of the foot in millimeters similarly to the pan-European standard. In this case, do not take into account the decorative allowances of shoes, warm socks, etc. This system is the most convenient and corresponds to the international standard. The French shoe numbering system determines the size of the shoe by the insole, which is longer than the foot by 10 mm. The unit of measure is a stroke (2/3 cm). In the UK, its system is inch. The unit of measurement is inch (2.54 cm). 4 inches is the size 0 (the size of the newborn's leg) and then the numbering goes in 1/3 inch increments to the 13th size. The American system is similar to the English one. How do you know what size feet are when buying shoes with a non-European numbering system? Independently such calculations are difficult to make. To do this, there are special matching tables that you better take with you when planning to visit a shoe store.

On the fullness of the feet

The fullness of the foot is a very important parameter of the size, on which the convenience of shoes depends.

According to GOST, footwear should be produced in the so-called. half fullness (there are 12 of them). Thus, in the average female size, the girth of the widest toe portion of the foot is 212 mm, with the largest 12 mm 256 mm. Foreign manufacturers have about 17 completeness, which are denoted by Latin letters, starting with A.

How to know the size of a child's foot

This will help the same method of measuring the length of the foot, which is described above. A foot length of 11 cm corresponds to the 17th dimension, 11, 5 cm to the 18th, 12 cm to the 19th, and so on. up to the 30th (19 cm).

Good luck shopping with you.

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