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shoe sizes - european shoe size - american shoe sizes - international shoe sizes - British shoe sizes conversion tables for American, Australian, British, Canadian, European, Japanese, Mexican, New Zealand, Inches, Centimetres, Mondopoint shoe sizes

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UK /Aus/NZ	shoe	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Australia & NZ	In Australasia it is common to add two sizes for women
European		34	35.3	36.75	38	39.25	40.5	42	43.25	44.6	46	47.25	48
US male	shoe	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
US female	shoe	3½	4½	5½	6½	7½	8½	9½	10½	11½	.	.	.
Japan		21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
Mexico		.	.	.	4.5	5.5	6.5	7.5	8.5	9.5	10.5	11.5	12.5
Cm (foot)	foot	21.4	22.4	22.9	23.8	24.9	25.7	26.6	27.6	28.3	29.3	30.1	.
Mondopoint	foot	214	224	229	238	249	257	266	276	283	293	301	.
Inches	foot	8 3/8	8 6/8	9 1/16	9 7/16	9 13/16	10 2/16	10 1/2	10 7/8	11 3/16	11 9/16	11 7/8	.

Shoe size distribution:

shoe size distribution in UK adults - comparison with Japanese adults

UK /Aus/NZ	shoe	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
UK % (½ small)	male shoe				1% .	3% (1%)	11% (4%)	24% (11%)	29% (15%)	21% (12%)	9% (6%)	2% .	1% .
UK size		2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
UK % (½ small)	fem' shoe	2% .	3%  (1%)	12% (5%)	23% (10%)	29% (15%)	21% (12%)	9% (6%)	2% .
Japanese male						average
Japanese female			average

Shoe size systems:

This chart is based on library & web research, as well as some thought about the internal logic of the systems.

The English system is thirds of an inch, starting roughly at four or eight inches for children or adults. Four and eight inches used to be called one hand or two hands, with four inches being width of a hand and an inch the length between the end of your thumb and the middle crease. A hand or hand-width was the common measure for horses, so it was convenient to use it for shoes as well. Thirds of an inch used to be called barleycorns, after the corns you can make beer out of.

At this point the system becomes more hi-tec, because cobblers would use a bit of stick, more or less designed for the purpose of measuring shoes rather than feet. A shoe should be about one size larger then the foot it surrounds, so the measuring stick would be marked with a child's size one one hand and a third of an inch, rather than the round number of one hand or four inches exactly.

The system measures foot length and is unisex, but womens' shoes tend to be narrower at the heel than mens'. A man wearing women's shoes would be well advised to try a few pairs on first (transvestite mail-order is a difficult business as court shoes are traditionally worn tight) and likewise a woman wearing a transvestite's court shoe might find it more comfortable with a couple of pads glued-in to the sides. For most looser-fitting styles, unisex designs are possible and work well, although some manufacturers use separate lasts or moulds for making mens and womens shoes in the same pattern.

In America, people complicated the system by introducing a length difference between two separate scales for mens & womens shoes. Sizing was a source debate amongst trade associations and even led to patented systems at the end of the last century. This is what Bata, an international shoe manufacturer say on their table:

• American sizes are the same as English except the base size 0 commences at 3 11/12" (99.5 mm).
• The American practice is to stamp shoe sizes:
  a) 1½ sizes up from English size for Children's and Women's shoes.
  b) One size up from the English size for Men's shoes.

There are glimpses of a pattern of logic here. The difference in base size is a quarter of a size, as though someone had decided to move womens shoes and mens shoes half a size apart in length. The motive could be to make them more equal in width, as womens' feet tend to be narrower at the heel for a given foot length.

European countries use a metric system. Because the centimetre is larger than the difference you would want between two sizes of shoe, the system is to use two thirds of a centremetre. This is sometimes called a Paris Point.

People have been frustrated by shoe sizes for many years. In the Soviet Union there was an attempt to introduce ordinary centimetres instead of Paris Points, but, as centimetres are too big to come to round numbers on shoe sizes, shoes tend to have both size systems stamped on them. In Japan the idea has caught-on better: people simply give their foot length in centimetres. In Australia, standards organisations attempted the same thing, recommending millimetre lengths described as "Mondopoint" meaning world point, and in the UK the British Standards Institution has followed. These measurements tend only to be used for more technical shoes. There are several reasons for difficulties:

• Most of the first translation tables on the internet were written by Americans. North America is unique in having different size systems for men and women, but, because women's feet are particularly narrow at the heel, it's often true that a woman takes a slightly smaller unisex shoe unless she wants to add some pads. Tables are published taking this into account, and Americans assume that there are two separate length systems in the UK. Likewise, because South European shoes are made for narrower feet than North European, Americans tend to assume that there are different length systems.
• Reference documents are hard to find, and, when presented, tend to be a summery without mention of the internal logic that would make them memorable and prevent translation errors. For example the British Standards Institution now agrees with the European Standard of simply using the foot length in millimetres, which is called the Mondopoint system. Neither the British nor Australian standards institutions now have a definitive document describing the shoe sizes the people still usually use, while the British Footwear Association avoids the subject. I do not know whether ministry of defence standards are available. In the USA there is some difference between the trade association - formerly the Footwear Industries of America (FIA) and the "common" scale which is about half a size different. Australians nominally use the Commonwealth or English system, but tend to add two sizes for womens' shoes.
• Size charts differ in their comparison of US mens, womens and UK sizes: all quote US sizes as larger than UK ones - one size for boys and one and a half or two for girls. There is a logic to this strangeness: US women buying British shoes might not mind the one sixth of an inch difference in length that is a half size. UK factories might very much mind the cost of moulds and stock that are involved in making more sizes.

I have not been able to find a standard for widths, which are a measure of a D-shaped cross-section around a foot. Some companies use width; others girth.

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Jacket Sizes:

international jacket sizes

UK male'		30"	32"	34"	36"	38"	40"	42"	44"	46"
UK female..		8	10	12	14	16	18	20	22	24
inches (chest)		30	32	34	36	38	40	42	44	46
(waist)			24	66	28	30	32	.	.	.
(hips)			34	36	38	40	42	.	.	.
cm (chest)		82-86	86-90	90-94	100-04	105-09	110-14	115-29	130-34	135-139
(waist)			61	66	71	76	81	.	.	.
(hips)			86.5	91.5	96.5	101.5	106.5	.	.	.
Europe		(chest)	38	40	42	44	46	48	50	.
USA female		(chest)	10	12	14	16	40	42	44	.
Japan female		(chest)	9	11	13	15	17	19	21	.

international coat and jersey sizes

UK/US	coats jerseys	34	36	38	40	42	44	46
Euro		44	46	48	50	52	54	56
Japan		S		M		L		LL

Women's Sizes

adult dresses suits coats	American	8	10	12	14	16	18
	British	30	32	34	36	38	40
	Continental	36	38	40	42	44	46
adult blouses & sweaters	American	32	34	36	38	40	42	44
	British	34	36	38	40	42	44	46
	Continental	40	42	44	46	48	50	52
girls & youth dresses & coats	American	2	4	6	8	10	13	15
	British & Continental	1	2	5	7	9	10	12
stockings	American & British	8	8½	9	9½	10	10½	11
	Continental	35	36	37	38	39	40	41

Men's Sizes

Suits, Sweaters and Overcoats	American & British	34	36	38	40	42	44	46
	Continental	44	46	48	50	52	54	56
Shirts	American & British	14	14½	15	15½	16	16½	17
	Continental	36	37	38	39	40	41	42
Socks	American & British	9½	10	10½	11	11½	12	12½
	Continental	39	40	41	42	43	44	45

foot gauges:

• Algao Ltd, Liverpool, UK, stockists for the Heider anglo-European length gauge @ £11 + p&p by credit card over the phone. 0151 448 1228 fax 0151 448 1008. Search their site for "Foot Measure - Yellow (Plastic) (Reference #PA1902) " which is about thirteen pounds plus postage.
• Clarks, Somerset, UK make gauges for their franchised shops, or produce a good table on the net. It may not quite agree with this one, so have a look if you are interested. Clarks were responsible for a lot of the market research in the 60s and 70s that lead to received wisdom about the width of the British foot.
• Bata, an international shoe manufacturing company, has a good table and .pdf diagramme. Other firms who ought to know their size charts include Dr Martens for men and women, US /UK conversion
• DB Shoes have a diagramme on their site including measurements from the mould or last
• Malthouse Hunter - specialists in children's guages with width measurement. Based in UK but make EU & US guages too
• Satra, UK - £22 for a mens, womens, or childrens wooden gauge for length and width
• Brannock, USA - steel length and width scale stockist (USA) Brannock publish a pdf scale at one-third size on their site.
• Woodrow Engineering Wisconsin, USA - used to sell a ruler for measuring the insides of shoes, but the website doesn't show it at present.
• UKD (formerly Marlows) large trade-only wholesaler who will tell you their local stockist for shoes and their "Junior Foot-gauge, selling for something up to £80. It is white-coated aluminium, continental and UK sized 1-10 or 16-45 and has some kind of rough estimate guide for width

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shoe size javascript converter - european to american & english; english to european & american, american to european & english

This JavaScript calculator is on the web without the author's name, so I can't thank him...

Enter a shoe size value into any box. The remaining boxes will automatically be updated when you press tab or click the mouse with the cursor in another box Shoe Size (US mens) A width inches A width cm   B width inches B width cm Shoe Size (UK) C width inches C width cm   D width inches D width cm Shoe Size (EU) E width inches E width cm   EE width inches EE width cm foot length inches 3E width inches 3E width cm   4E width inches 4E width cm foot length cm 5E width inches 5E width cm   6E width inches 6E width cm This calculator is for men's sizes. Here are the formulas: L = S * 1/3" + 7 1/3" where: U = S - 1 L = foot length in inches P = U * 4/3 + 31 1/3 S = US men's adult shoe size D width = 3/8 of foot length U = UK shoe size each width step = 3/16 inches P = Paris Points shoe size

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why people wear vegan shoes & cook vegan recipes:

• Animal welfare - slaughterhouses are a cut-throat business in more ways than one, because the blood has to be drained from the carcas while the heart is still beating. All but Halal sloughterhouses would claim that the animal is stunned while this is done, but in a competative third world industry animal pain is inevitable. If there is going to be a legal throat-cutting industry, vegetarians and vegans think it's best to cut-down our use of it.
• Our welfare - there is a wide range of breathable, comfortable footwear and low-fat, healthy cooking available. Maybe the question should be put the other way: why is it still quite fashionable to wear leather shoes & eat meat? Was it something to do with social status a few generations ago?
• Everyone's welfare - farmland is wasted if it is used for animal feed. There are plenty of reasons, like lack of condoms and old-age pensions, why too many people exist in poor countries for the land to support. One part of the equation must be that we rich people are out-bidding the poor by buying meat that requires animal feed.

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