# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/161 "2007-12-14T18:10:17Z")
[QUOTE=AHunter3] AAA - feet shaped like skis AA - skinny feet A - narrow B - medium narrow C - standard width D - medium wide E - wide EE - oblate feet EEE - feet shaped like pie plates [/QUOTE] I’ll add that you also rarely see the extremes in widths available outside of special order. The vast majority of shoes are medium width (which I though was B, I’ve never seen C or D tho’ I do occasionally see E and A). Other shoe sizes: A US 9 is a UK 6 and I’ve noticed that lots of UK shoe sellers don’t seem to have half size. People in England must walk around with ill fitting shoes. There are actually two different European shoe sizes: French and Italian. Italian is much more common and even most French shoe makers use the Italian sizing. An Italian 39 is closest to a US 8.5 although most department stores try to claim it’s a US 9. The French sizing is about a size smaller, a US 9 would probably be a French 40 but honestly, you rarely see French sizing nowdays. BTW, the above is for women’s shoes; I dont’ know much about men’s. Oh, and I’ll add that the most commonly stocked shoe sizes in the US are 6 - 10. There’s a reason for that, those sizes are made using the same last (the form the shoe is shaped on). Sizes smaller that 6 and larger than 10 use a different last and are more expensive and more difficult to locate. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/162 "2007-12-14T18:31:05Z")
Male / 5’10 1/2" / 10 1/2D ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/163 "2007-12-14T19:15:56Z")
5’2" Female 6 ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/164 "2007-12-14T20:32:40Z")
Male 5’9" 11 (US) My six foot tall sons steal my shoes. Humph! (You may call me a hobbit. Oddly enough, my hands are pretty much normal size) ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/165 "2007-12-14T21:05:44Z")
female 5’2" 6 ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/166 "2007-12-15T00:47:17Z")
Male 5’10 1/2" 11 and 1/2 is the size that fits best, but one foot is an 11. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/167 "2007-12-15T01:09:20Z")
Male 185cm 11E (on average) ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/168 "2007-12-15T01:22:20Z")
I meant to add this but I missed the edit window. My old job had my hanging out in NBA dressing rooms and one day the Miami Heat came to town. Shaq wasn’t in the room at the time but his shoes were sitting at his locker. They were massive, comically large even, and you really have to see them to believe them (I didn’t actually check out the sizes - seemed rude - but Google tells me they are somewhere in the neighborhood of 22 - 24 EEE). I still can’t believe how big those darn things were. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/169 "2007-12-15T01:27:53Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] … a. what is your gender? Female b. what is your **average** shoe size? I’m not quite sure how to answer without a bit of a range - I buy size 6 because of a badly-healed broken pinky toe on my right foot. I would take 5 1/2 for both feet if not for that. c. how tall are you? 5’2-ish (I may be a hair shorter, but “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue” is just so perfect) ---
**Author:** ![Seabhac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Seabhac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seabhac)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/170 "2007-12-15T04:17:34Z")
Female 5"4’ Size 4(british) 5 & 1/2 American (I think) ---
**Author:** ![giant\_freakin\_marine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9fc348/32.png) [@giant\_freakin\_marine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/giant_freakin_marine)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/171 "2007-12-16T02:43:14Z")
male 6-4 280 ---
**Author:** ![giant\_freakin\_marine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9fc348/32.png) [@giant\_freakin\_marine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/giant_freakin_marine)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/172 "2007-12-16T02:44:51Z")
oh crap size 12EEE ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/173 "2007-12-16T04:12:43Z")
Female Size 9 1/2 5’7" DeathLlama’s stats: Male Size 13 6’4" (a strangely popular height around here) **HazelNutCoffee** and **Sleeps With Butterflies** , I feel YOUR pain. Many shoes come in 5 1/2, 6, 6 1/2, 7, 7 1/2, 8, 8 1/2, 9…10. Um…hello? Us 9 1/2 people have feet, too! ---
**Author:** ![EsotericEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@EsotericEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EsotericEnigma)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/174 "2007-12-16T05:13:47Z")
Male 5’9" 12 ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/175 "2007-12-16T06:25:08Z")
Male 5’9 Size 10 ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/176 "2007-12-16T09:05:49Z")
So, like, we ever going to find out what this is about? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/177 "2007-12-16T09:34:35Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] My own answers are a. female b. 7.5 c. almost 5’4" [/QUOTE] Same! Except my shoe size is 7.5 in Australian women’s sizes, which seems to work out to a 9 in US women’s sizes (according to [this chart](http://strike-it.com.au/images/Shoe%20size.JPG)) ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/178 "2007-12-16T13:33:09Z")
Female Height:5 feet/152cm Weight: 7 stone/45kg/98lbs Shoe size: UK 2/US 2.5/Eu 33.5/Australia 3/Japan 21 I’m lickle. My feet are one size down from where most of those International size conversion charts start. I wear a lot of insoles, thick socks, kids shoes and shoes that are too big for me. ---
**Author:** ![yelimS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/54ee81/32.png) [@yelimS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yelimS)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/179 "2007-12-16T18:55:34Z")
Male, 10 1/2US, 6’4" ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-height-shoe-size/429827/180 "2007-12-16T20:26:42Z")
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