Why you’re probably wearing the wrong shoe size and how to calculate your real one
If you are familiar with your shoes feeling painful by the end of the day and unsightly bunions forming, you might have been wearing the wrong shoe size for years.
A recent study shows that almost half of women in the UK are wearing the wrong shoe size, while a third of 2,000 people questioned admitted to wearing shoes that don’t fit well, according to the College of Podiatry. The reason why this happens is that most people haven’t had their feet measured and simply try to figure out their shoe size by trying on more pairs of shoes.
On the back of the study, Who What Wear created a guide that could help you to accurately measure your feet. Here are the steps, according to Daily Mail:
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1. Place a piece of paper on the floor (a hard, flat floor is preferable to a carpeted one).
2. Sit on a chair and place your foot on it.
3. Trace the outline of your foot with a pen or pencil.
4. Take a ruler and rule a perfectly straight line on each edge of your foot (your toes, heel and each side of your foot)
5. Then use the ruler to measure between the two parallel lines on either side of your foot. Do this top to bottom, as well as side to side and write down the two numbers.
6. Subtract 3/16ths of an inch from each of the two numbers and use the chart below to calculate your true shoe size:
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