How to measure Shoe size

To pick out comfortable shoes, enough to do a few fittings in the store. However, sometimes you have to do the purchase according to preliminary standards, for example, when ordering goods through the Internet or in the orthopedic salon. In this case, you must specify the size of the Shoe. According to the accepted standards, it will depend on the length of the foot (insoles) and its width (fullness).

You will need

• - two sheets of paper;
• socks;
• - Scotch;
• pencil;
• - the range;
• - table of Shoe sizes.

Instruction

1. Taken for calculations of the sizeand the Shoe is recommended in the evening as by this time one day tired legs can take a bit longer, even pripuhnut. Be sure to wear socks the same thickness that you plan to choose new shoes or boots.
2. During measurement , the stop can be glued a large paper or cardboard sheets to the floor with tape. So they won't crawl, and you would prefer to act.
3. Swipe in the center of the sheet smooth vertical line centimeter ruler. At the bottom of the straight draw a perpendicular. The intersection of two lines indicate, for example, point A.
4. Put your right foot next template so that the vertical line ran through the middle of the foot. Point a is the most convex part of your heel. Stand upright on both feet went the same load. Press your thumb to the floor – so you can find out the maximum length of the foot.
5. Find the place on the foot that will be the most removed from the point A is a point In, located on top of the longest finger. It can be large (the so-called "Egyptian" or "Roman" types, stop), or second (in the "Greek" foot).
6. Insert the upper perpendicular line. The distance between points A and b is the length of the right foot.
7. According to this pattern make a pattern for the left foot is necessary as the feet are slightly different from each other in sizeand structure.
8. Label width (it is also called completeness) of the foot. To do this, find the widest part of the toe portion of the foot and indicate them by the letters C and D. you can Now circle the foot around the perimeter with a pencil, holding it vertically.
9. Measure the distance between points A and b, then C and D. If one leg is greater than another, for you will be important the maximum length and fullness. Remember these numbers and find your size according to the standard table that you can find on the Internet or a Shoe store.
10. Study the standards of different manufacturers of footwear. In the international metric system length of the foot is indicated in centimetres; between adjacent sizeAMI manufacturers leave in the interval of 0.5 cm For example, the insole length 22 cm corresponds to the size 34,5; length 22.5 cm - 35 size; 23cm - 36, etc. In Europe as a measure of length used stich equal to 2/3, see England and America sizes are measured in inches, and the intervals between them are made in 1/3 of an inch.
11. View, if not specified on the package Shoe measure width. Most manufacturers produce shoes, shoes and boots in narrow, medium and wide fittings. However, these data are not always, more often - hard footwear (ski boots, and skates). From domestic producers, the indices of completeness are numbers from 1 to 12 mm; European – from 1 to 8; American and English, respectively, the letters from A to F. the Interval between sizeAMI width shoes is 4mm, in most other countries – 5 mm.