# Is your foot a foot? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 1, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572 "2008-04-01T19:58:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572/21 "2008-04-02T16:07:20Z")
Nope. About 10.5 inches. I wear between size 11 and 11.5. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572/22 "2008-04-02T16:24:18Z")
[QUOTE=Usram] Hmm, my feet are, I measure, 10.5" long at the most, but I take at least a size 10 (that’s UK size, roughly size 11 on the US scale, I think). How on earth can you squeeze those feet into size 7 shoes? [/QUOTE] Precisely - I rarely do. It just shows how silly the length-only size system is. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572/23 "2008-04-02T16:45:51Z")
Female, 5’ 7", feet measure 9.5". ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572/24 "2008-04-02T17:20:46Z")
Male 13+ size 14. This translates to a 49 cm shoe, which, when I required a pair rubber wellingtons for a jungle trip in Eucador, I was told the company did not manufacture. 45 was their largest size. This partially explains why I was on the side of a volcano in a snow storm wearing my soggy boots the next day. ---
**Author:** ![AngryIrishLass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@AngryIrishLass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngryIrishLass)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572/25 "2008-04-02T17:59:06Z")
Female, 5’4.5", feet measure 8.25 inches. I have munchkin feet. ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572/26 "2008-04-02T19:13:11Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] Every time I put my foot up and take a tape measure to it, my chair starts to spin around and I lose my balance. [/QUOTE] Hmmm, I had the same problem. It was fun, but then I put the tape measure on the floor and stood on it: 10 inches (male). ---
**Author:** ![Arabella\_Flynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572/27 "2008-04-02T23:08:02Z")
Don’t have a ruler handy, but I wear a US ladies’ 5.5-6, depending on style. This is occasionally a problem, if I want tennis shoes that do not have Dora the Explorer on them. I would solve this by buying mens’ shoes, but a US ladies 6 is a US mens 4, which means that my new problem is then finding tennis shoes without Transformers on them… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572/28 "2008-04-02T23:14:43Z")
11 inches. I’m 6’5", BTW. In my cowboy boots they’re exactly 12". Very hand- uh footy when impromptu measuring. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572/29 "2008-04-03T02:55:13Z")
[QUOTE=feppytweed] Nope. About 10.5 inches. I wear between size 11 and 11.5. [/QUOTE] Same here. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572/30 "2008-04-03T21:42:25Z")
Female 5’6". Foot measures 8". My family has long legs and big feet. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572/31 "2008-04-03T21:50:03Z")
M, 5’11", 10.5" feet. My hand is more than a hand, however…4.25" instead of 4". Couldn’t find it in Wikipedia, but wasn’t the inch based on the width of a man’s thumb (the French word, “pouce,” also means thumb)? If so, I’m exactly right on that. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572/32 "2008-04-03T23:14:31Z")
[QUOTE=zenith] Never measured my unshod foot, but my shoes exactly fill a 12"x12" floor tile, so I can fairly accurately heel-and-toe a distance measurement. Size 9 in some shoes, 9 1/2 in others. [/QUOTE] Ditto, but 9 1/2 or 10 shoe size and I’m male. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-foot-a-foot/443572.md?page=1)