How To Measure Your Feet To Know What Shoe Size You Have
Finding the perfect pair of heels is the holy grail for every heels-wearing person in the world. It’s like hitting the Powerball jackpot or like passing an exam you thought you would fail.
Getting to this amazing place, however, requires a lot of trial and error, effort, thought and knowing your comfortable heels size.
Wearing heels that don’t fit right can cause different kind of painful foot issues like ingrown toenails, corns, bunions and more.
Most of you know how it feels to wear dress shoes and how it results in aching squashed toes, pressure on the ball and heels of your feet.
When shopping online, you probably have seen the confusing shoe size chart. In this article i will show you ow to measure your feet the right way and use this chart.
So, that, you may find the perfect fitting heels to avoid these feet issues.
knowing your right shoe size is a key factor to finding comfortable heels
Knowing your right shoe size and fit. Heels that we can find in regular shoe stores come in standard sizes.
The shoe store salespeople will trick you into believing that the heels will eventually stretch out and be comfortable. And we believe that… So, we buy those heels even though in our heart we know those heels don’t fit right.
At the end, we don’t even wear the heels we bought and dump our new heels with the other heels we rarely wear.
We all know that feet come in different shapes. That means that one may have wider and the other have extra narrow or even medium sized feet.
How should heels fit?
When you wear high heels, you want your toes to be lying flat and comfortable next to each other. You don’t want them to be squashed, because this will eventually hurt. Check out these article on the heels you need to avoid.
You also want your toes to feel snug, not tight, in closed heels like pumps.
It’s also important that your feet fits comfortably at the ball of your feet. This is the widest part of the shoe. Most heels are not designed to be wide enough at this part.
How to measure your feet to find the right width fit for you
Pay extra attention to how your feet feel in this area when you are testing your heels.
How to measure your feet for heels
Grab a piece of paper and outline your feet using a pen or pencil on a secure and flat surface, while holding your pencil/pen as firm and straight as possible.
It’s important that you outline the shape of your feet, holding the pen as close to your feet.Now, that you have a print of your feet. Measure the lowest point of the bottom of the heel to the longest toe. You have measured the length of your feet.
Next, measure the widest part of your feet under the toes.
How to compare your foot measurements to a shoe sizing chart
Now, that I have measured my feet. I will use the measurements and compare it with the charts below.
The length of my feet is 265 MM and that translates in to the European size 41.5, UK size 8.5 and US size 10.5.
I used to think i had size 41 so it’s funny to see my feet are bigger than what i thought. Now, that I have showed you how to measure your feet. I wonder what size you have.
Let me know in the comment section.
shoe width chart
Here below I use a shoe width chart that can help you determine your foot width. These sizes are categorized in the following measurements: A, B, C/D, and E. A stands for the narrowest to the extra widest of E.
*The sizes in the width chart are american, convert them in the right chart
