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.

      • weirdboy@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        16
        ·
        1 month ago

        In Japan everyone knows their shoe size in centimeters. Those stay the same regardless of gender or whatever other crazy unrelated topic to how big something is.

        • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          1 month ago

          size in centimeters

          Measuring like that would be even easier in the US, where the answer would always be simply “one foot”.

          • th3dogcow@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            edit-2
            1 month ago

            It would except for the fact that shoe sizes here, from babies to adults are only sized in centimetres. If there are international sizes printed on the shoes, they have no meaning to residents in Japan. Check the tag inside your shoes; If they have international sizes printed on them, you’ll see Japan’s is in centimetres, and may have EE (or more Es) next to it to denote width. If there is nothing, then they are standard width.

            Children’s clothing is also sized in centimetres. Makes things really simple.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 month ago

        Shoe sizes are Unisex here in in Europe as well as in Asia. And in Asia they are even smarter - they simply use centimeters, while we use “Paris Points” of 2/3s of a centimeter.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 month ago

      Just so you know: Women shoes are different in both width and length*.

      Probably because men often need wider shoes.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        Well, that’s why you still have mens and womens sections in the shoe shop. But it definitively makes it easier e.g. to find a shoe for a woman with wide feet, just take a mens’ sneaker in the same size.