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I was born with feet in the 1st percentile of the population and they stayed that way even despite getting taller. Now every shoe shopping experience is awkward af.
Size 3? You have peg legs.
So I'm not sure if you know this, but in the US the big kids sizes and the adult men's sizes are the same. For example, a men's 5 is the same as a big kid's 5.
Next time you need to use a Brannock device and you're sized out, have them get the one for the kids.
Why do they measure your feet as an adult? Is that common in the US? I don't think i had my feet measured since I was 15 or so.
—what size?
—three
—... please come this way
Speak for yourself... I use my Brannock device each morning to check my feet and see if my junk got bigger from the chemicals.
I don't think anybody is asking to measure his feet, but these measurement devices are practically everywhere that shoes are sold, so it's easy to check for yourself.
Cause it takes about 30 seconds and makes sure you actually have the right size shoe.
Do your feet hurt after a long day of standing/walking like being at an airport or something?
Yes they do. But I don't know if it's any worse than a "normal-footed" human's feet.
so do mine, but i'm a woman who's shorter than you with size 20 billion feet
I wonder if it's a function of total surface area or if it's more about the weight pressing on your ankles...
I haven't had my feet measured since I was a kid wtf?
As a woman, I think it's stupid that shoes are gendered in the first place. My shoe size is in the realm that exists for both men's and women's shoes. So in shoe stores I can grab the same sneakers from the women's and the men's section. Just sort the damn shoes by size and let people pick the ones they like ffs.
The first few decades of my life I assumed that there'd been all sorts of important orthopaedic/podiatry research done into the difference between men and women's feet, gaits etc that meant wearing sports shoes sold as "women's" would in some way cause my feet long term harm. Nope, it was bullshit marketing all along.
I wouldn't be surprised if on average women's feet were narrower than men's, but even if that's the case, just make narrow and wide versions of shoes and let people pick the ones that fit their feet. Surely there are men with narrow feet and women with wide feet. It just makes no sense.
I have had to wear shoes 1 (or .5 depending upon the model) number larger due to wide fronts.
I recently learned that there's a size rating for width. It goes from A to E, and says something about the length/width ratio of the shoe. Made my previous shoes a lot easier to buy (I also struggle to find wide enough shoes).
Goes further than that, my feet are technically 11EEEEEE but I usually have to get a 12EE since basically no one in the world makes 6E if not custom made.
Not just shoes, all clothes. We can come up with better terms, like tapered or straight line. Whatever would be most descriptive. It’s ridiculous.
To be fair, I don't think it's "ridiculous" to sort e.g. jeans into the broad categories of "typically wider or slipper hips/thighs compared to length" or t-shirts into "typically broader back vs. typically larger chest".
The mens/women's categories are probably the coarsest categories that makes sense, since the average man's and women's body are so different in so many ways.
The point is that you described it exactly as it could be described without using gendered terms.
Shoes must be cheap then lol
That's what I was going to say. Kids shoes are cheaper.
I'm 5'10" with a size 14 shoe, and it's frustrating because they stop making half sizes above 12 which means it's often difficult to find a good fitting shoe. I also have a 6'5" wingspan so shirts always either have too short of sleeves, or they are way too long on the torso.
I also assume that kids shoes don't last as long, though. There is no reason to build them to last.
I can 100% attest to this. Kids shoes are cheap because they're cheap.
Yeah that makes sense, I doubt they're designed to handle the weight of a grown man, even a fit one.
I HATE that about having big feet, I'm on my feet all day and it doesn't matter if I go up one or down, my feet are going to hurt, just in different ways.
Damn that sucks. You need a dedicated clothes manufacturer lol
Get me a small man’s foot-suit, please.
I get the reference!
Be careful what you wish for. Small feet on a man mean you'll be sentenced to a life of small dick jokes. Which is certainly not the worst thing in the world but it isn't great.
My message was a tenuous reference to Flight of the Conchords (New Zealand's fourth most popular folk-comedy duo). So it’s understandable that it was misunderstood, however, I did appreciate your thoughtful response.
Here’s the song if you need a laugh: https://youtu.be/yjfSZu246zE
Well? Is what they say about big feet true of the inverse?
Yes. Small socks.
Skinny 5'3 guy here. I've had that experience buying pants. "Maybe you'll find something in the kids' section".
Went out with my cousin who is 5' 4". He buys pants at the kid section.
I tried to poke fun at him and this short king eviscerated me how I had to pay a "Height tax" since his clothes are durable and cheaper.
I had a girlfriend who had the inverse of your problem — her feet were far too large for shoes aimed at women. She ended up becoming friends with a bunch of drag queens, and finding that the specialist store they got their shoes from was the best place for her