shoe sizing

[juldea]

According to this method of shoe sizing, I should be wearing a shoe size 7½ ...width E. Does anyone sell width E?


...ooh, this place does.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I have never been to a shoe stores that does NOT sell size E. Often, E is described as "narrow", and they carry E, EE, and EEEE.

This does not help those of us who are a B.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Maybe men's shoes are different, because I've never seen over a C in women's sizes.

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

What I read at New Balance is that, for men, B is narrow, D is normal, E+ wide, and I'm a EEE or EEEE. (And I think B was the normal width for women.)

juldea, I'm happy with the Magnum boots I got from bootbay.com, and I was happy with my sneakers from the New Balance outlet in Allston before I wore them through too many salty snowdrifts and they disintegrated.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Please note the chart on the page I linked:

Women's Shoe Size Chart
Shoe Widths: A B (Standard) C

Men's Shoe Size Chart
Shoe Widths: C D (Standard) E

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a bald-faced lie. C used to be standard for both. I wonder when this piece of history was revised.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Somewhere in the last 25 years, as (as I've said) I've never seen anything above a C in women's shoe stores, and those are hard to find.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Not the women's sizes piece of history, the "men's E is average" piece of history.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Oh.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

No, it's saying D is average. C, D (standard), E. Formatting was ambiguous.