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.
While I’m 5’9 (176cm) with size 12 ( man 45 europe ) shoes since I was 15/16 ( same height and foot size )
Haha same here. I’m around 5’6 or 5’7 and I find depending on make, I’m either size 11 or 12 shoes. Also have pretty big hands (or long fingers at least). I’ve always thought of my hands and feet as big puppy paws that I never grew into lmao.
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
Okay Hank Hill.
Peggy Hill!
Did you call her L?
I have this problem, but width only, not overall size.
I just wear men’s shoes, and even those are wicked hard to find. There isn’t really a category of shoes for my size (not big enough overall for drag shoes to be right, but far too wide for normally sized women’s shoes - I wear 6-8 [brand dependent] 4EW in men’s) and I’m not willing to spend a fortune on shoes to have cute custom ones made, so men’s shoes and sandals are my options. Boring.
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
That’s wild. Those are practically hooves.
Do you happen to sprain your ankles often? Just wondered if it felt like you were less balanced than other similarly sized men or did your brain just adjust and accommodate for the lack of leverage naturally subconsciously?
I have sprained my ankles in the past but not since I was a teenager…maybe adjusting to my growth spurt when I was still wearing size 1s haha. Now I’m fine I guess I have adjusted. Of course, I’ve never been normal-footed so don’t have a point of reference but yeah I’m not falling over myself like a newborn fawn as you may think.
So valid! Thank you, and sorry for asking what may have felt like a poignant question
Most people wear shoes that are too small.
Can we see a pic of your feet with your legs in the shot too? This is very interesting
Why the hell not?
Those kickers look pretty normal!
Unclear if on topic, or foot fetish.
Dear feet lovers: does size matter? Actually curious if you care about that.
Corn likea da feet
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 dann 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.
Barefoot shoes! Started wearing them 2 years ago and will never go back. I hadn’t even realized how much regular shoes crammed my toes together until I started wearing actually foot-shaped shoes. And my feet are narrow.
I’ve heard of them quite a bit.
Might try if I get the chance.
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).
Well, guess I need to look for my width rating.
Not that it matters, because the shop ppl won’t understand.
And even if they do, it’s useless if they don’t have what I need.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.
Size 3? You have peg legs.
Yarr.
Those feet must look like hooves.
I’m imagining it and that sounds hot
I swear to fuck there was another lemmy user that was really tall but had like size 4 feet and there was a pretty cool AMA
Ya I remember that. They had a pic of them in business attire I think
Edit: Here is that post:
https://lemmings.world/post/19924381
Same person
Dope, they’ll go down in Lemmy history for having funny proportions
Well? Is what they say about big feet true of the inverse?
Yes. Small socks.
Tell us the damming truth!
No honestly I can’t say it is. I have small hands but other than that totally average.
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 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.
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.
Damn that sucks. You need a dedicated clothes manufacturer lol
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.
It’s absolutely not common unless you’re getting custom shoes or some other 1%er activity
Do you NOT try to fit into any clothing you buy?
I mean, your feet typically don’t really change size after you grow up? I just buy whatever size I last bought.
Edit: tho to be fair it’s not even always the same size because the size that’s comfortable highly depends from shoe to shoe, I always have to try on a few pairs to be sure.
I never buy clothes online, exactly because I always try them on to check the fit before buying them. I haven’t measured my feet since I was around 15. I know my foot size, so I know that shoes in the range 42-43 are a good fit, depending on the shoe model. I don’t need to measure my feet when I buy shoes to confirm that they’re still around size 42.5.
Every shoe store I have ever been to, including thrift stores, had one of those foot measuring things.
Thrift store? Believe it or not, 1%er activity.
REAL people make their own shoes out of roadkill….
damned 1%
—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.
Wow dude, that’s crazy. Like, in a cool way.
My great-uncle was very small when he was born - the family story is that he used to sleep in a shoe box instead of a crib until he was almost a year old.
Probably not your shoe box, though.
Haha bro thanks. And you’re right my shoe box would be too small for any baby!
Maybe the one from Slingblade
Some folks call it a Sling Blade, I call it a Kaiser Blade.
Mmmmmhm
Probably not your shoe box, though.>
Oh no, you didn’t
