# Your Gender, Height, & Shoe Size? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827 "2007-12-13T07:09:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/1 "2007-12-13T07:09:47Z")
Through observation I have formulated a hypothesis, but I’d like to collect more data. So… a. what is your gender? b. what is your **average** shoe size? (to avoid ranges like 8 in some shoes, 9 in others.) c. how tall are you? My own answers are a. female b. 7.5 c. almost 5’4" ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/2 "2007-12-13T07:14:28Z")
a. what is your gender? Male b. what is your average shoe size? (to avoid ranges like 8 in some shoes, 9 in others.) 12 c. how tall are you? 6’1" ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/3 "2007-12-13T07:15:35Z")
Male, 13, 6’2". ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/4 "2007-12-13T07:17:51Z")
Male 14 6’3’’ (If the next poster is male, wears size 15 shoes and is 6’4’’, I’m gonna freak.) ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/5 "2007-12-13T07:27:00Z")
Female 6 5’5" (Although it was tempting to say male, 6’5, 15, but I resisted) ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/6 "2007-12-13T07:29:41Z")
Male 6’1" shoe size 10-1/2 or 11, depending on type of shoe and brand. This sounds like a thread a foot fetishist would create… ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/7 "2007-12-13T07:38:52Z")
Gotta love it when people do the exact thing the OP tells them not to. Anyways: Male 6’1" 13, though I admit to usually having tight shoes. 13 seems to be the demarcation between standard and “extra” sizes. Stores will typically have most shoes in a size 13, but rarely in anything bigger. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/8 "2007-12-13T07:44:48Z")
Female Size 10 5’7 I have large extremities. My glove size is large, too. ---
**Author:** ![Dusty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Dusty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/9 "2007-12-13T07:46:41Z")
Sex: Male Shoe size: 11 (US scale) Height: 6’ ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/10 "2007-12-13T07:47:07Z")
Female 8.5 5’5" ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/11 "2007-12-13T07:47:36Z")
Female Size 7 5’3" ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/12 "2007-12-13T07:49:03Z")
a. male b. 8-1/2 EEEE c. 5’8" Yeah, I’ve got wierd feet. Big whoop. Wanna fight about it. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/13 "2007-12-13T07:50:06Z")
**Male** 42 (European. I _think_ that works out to **8.5 US**?) 1.72 m ( **5’8"** ) We definitely need a new Metric definition of genders in order to empower more obfuscation… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/14 "2007-12-13T07:56:52Z")
[QUOTE=treis] 13, though I admit to usually having tight shoes. 13 seems to be the demarcation between standard and “extra” sizes. Stores will typically have most shoes in a size 13, but rarely in anything bigger. [/QUOTE] Don’t I fucking know it. Ironically, the last time I found shoes in my size where I actually had a choice as to the style was in Puerto Rico which based on my short stay there, does not seem biased towards the larger-feeted segments of society. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/15 "2007-12-13T07:58:30Z")
Female 6 5’2 ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/16 "2007-12-13T08:21:55Z")
Male 43 175cm Sorry, can’t be bothered to convert it to US format. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TripleTee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@TripleTee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TripleTee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/17 "2007-12-13T08:42:52Z")
Male Size 9 5’10" ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/18 "2007-12-13T08:51:02Z")
M. 11. 6’0. ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/19 "2007-12-13T09:04:17Z")
Female 10 wide 5’2" ---
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/20 "2007-12-13T09:07:27Z")
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