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If you're buying shoes in an unfamilar country you may find that the scale used for sizing the footwear is different to your own country. Use our nifty women's shoe size conversion chart to convert from your local size to that of another country.  Just find the row that relates to your country, go along that row to find your size, then in that column where your size is you 'll be able to see the equivalents in various other countries.

















































USA and Canada
5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.5 9 9.5 10 10.5 11 12 12.5 13 13.5 14 14.5 15.5

UK 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8 9 9.5 10 10.5 11 11.5 12 13

Europe 34 35 35.5 36 37 37.5 38 38.5 39 39.5 40 41 42 43 44 44.5 45 45.5 46.5
48.5

Australia
3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.5 9 9.75 10.5 10.75 11.5 12 12.5 13 14

Japan
21 21.5 22 22.5 23 23.5 24 24.5 25 25.5 26 27 27.5 28 28.5 29 29.5 30 30.5 31

Brazil
33 33 34 35 35 36 36 37 38 39 40 41 41.5 42 42.5 43 43.5 44
46

Mexico





4.5 5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8.5 9 9.5 10 10.5 11
12.5

Russia and Ukraine
33.5 34 34.5 35 35.5 36 36.5 37 37.5 38
38.5 39
39.5
40
40.5


Korea (mm.) 228 231 235 238 241 245 248 251 254 257 260 267
273
279
286
292

Inches 9 9.125 9.35 9.375 9.5 9.625 9.75 9.875 10 10.125 10.25 10.5
10.75
11
11.25
11.5

Centimeters 22.8 23.1 23.5 23.8 24.1 24.5 24.8 25.1 25.4 25.7 26 26.7
27.3
27.9
28.6
29.2

Mondopoint 228 231 235 238 241 245 248 251 254 257 260 267
273
279
286
292


Please bear in mind that some brands may have slightly differing size equivalents. It is always best therefore to try on a test pair of shoes to make absolutely sure that you get the correct fit for your foot.    

The History of Shoes from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age of the 19th Century

In the Middle Ages the general public wore clogs made of wood, shoes made from animal skins or simple patches of material that were wrapped around the foot. The material of the day at that time was cow's skin, but higher quality boots were made from goatskin.  The shoe was elaborated with alternative fabrics to protect the skin and to reinforce the foot for a better fit. Both men and women wore open leather shoes which had a similar form to that of today's sneakers. Men also wore high and low boots tied at the front and at the side.

In Europe, the shoe became a symbol of social status of the nobility and wealth members of society, but this went so far as to have ridiculous proportions.  In 14th century England and France the Poulaine become popular among the nobility.  This was a shoe with an extended tip at the toes.  The length of the tip was an indication of prestige, with the most wealthy having tips of 6 inches or longer.  In fact the tips were so long that a string was often used, one end tied behind the wearer's lower leg and the other to the end of the tip, to ensure they did not droop down and obstruct the act of walking.  Both the Pope and England's King Henry IV tried to ban the wearing of poulaines.   Eventually this extravagant fashion died out in the 15th century, partly because King Charles VIII of France had 6 toes and had to wear a more wide fit of shoe.  This inspired a new fashion of wearing broad, square fronted footwear known as "Duck Bill" style due to their similarity in appearance to the beak of a duck.

The standardization of measuring shoes is of English origin. King Edward II was the first to decree a measuring system in the 14th Century.  This was based on the barleycorn, a standard unit of measurement in those days and equivalent to a third of an inch. Each unit of shoe size was three barleycorns long, for example Edward II himself had feet which were 36 barleycorns long and thus was a shoe size 12 (ie 36 divided by 3).

In the 17th century, high heels were fashionable for both men and women.  In 16th and 17th century Europe it was the fashion to paint the heels red.

The first known reference of large scale manufacture of shoes in England is in 1642, when Thomas Pendleton supplied 4,000 pairs of shoes and 600 pairs of boots for the army. Military campaigns of this time initiated  a substantial demand for boots and shoes.

In the 18th century particularly in Italy and Spain, a particularly high platform shoe called a Chopine became the fashion for ladies to wear.  These were originally worn over normal shoes when travelling between houses, with the plaform serving to protect the lady's feet from mud and dirt.  On arrival at a house they would be removed, exposing the nicely clean normal shoe. The chopine would then only be put back on when leaving again.  The sole of a Chopine was around 10 centimeters high and consisted of cork, covered with very soft goatskin. As a result of this fashion, cork supplies of countries where Chopines were popular ran low. Extreme forms came toward the end the 15th century particularly in Venice, where the heels reached between 25 and 74 centimetres high.  As a result of such extremes, the ladies walking in these shoes had to be supported by servants to ensure they did not topple over.

Following from the outlandish earlier styles, a more practical simplification came about and the creation of new styles.  In the middle of the 19th century, with the advent of Industrialisation, machines began to appear to help in the production and
shoes started to be mass-produced in factories., but it was only with the advent of the sewing machine that shoes truly started to become more accessible.
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