I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every time they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device tells me I'm not a man
I was born with feet in the 1st percentile of the population and they stayed that way even despite getting taller. Now every shoe shopping experience is awkward af.
Size 3? You have peg legs.
So I'm not sure if you know this, but in the US the big kids sizes and the adult men's sizes are the same. For example, a men's 5 is the same as a big kid's 5.
Next time you need to use a Brannock device and you're sized out, have them get the one for the kids.
Why do they measure your feet as an adult? Is that common in the US? I don't think i had my feet measured since I was 15 or so.
—what size?
—three
—... please come this way
Speak for yourself... I use my Brannock device each morning to check my feet and see if my junk got bigger from the chemicals.
Cause it takes about 30 seconds and makes sure you actually have the right size shoe.
I don't think anybody is asking to measure his feet, but these measurement devices are practically everywhere that shoes are sold, so it's easy to check for yourself.
As a woman, I think it's stupid that shoes are gendered in the first place. My shoe size is in the realm that exists for both men's and women's shoes. So in shoe stores I can grab the same sneakers from the women's and the men's section. Just sort the damn shoes by size and let people pick the ones they like ffs.
The first few decades of my life I assumed that there'd been all sorts of important orthopaedic/podiatry research done into the difference between men and women's feet, gaits etc that meant wearing sports shoes sold as "women's" would in some way cause my feet long term harm. Nope, it was bullshit marketing all along.
Not just shoes, all clothes. We can come up with better terms, like tapered or straight line. Whatever would be most descriptive. It’s ridiculous.
To be fair, I don't think it's "ridiculous" to sort e.g. jeans into the broad categories of "typically wider or slipper hips/thighs compared to length" or t-shirts into "typically broader back vs. typically larger chest".
The mens/women's categories are probably the coarsest categories that makes sense, since the average man's and women's body are so different in so many ways.
Do your feet hurt after a long day of standing/walking like being at an airport or something?
Yes they do. But I don't know if it's any worse than a "normal-footed" human's feet.
so do mine, but i'm a woman who's shorter than you with size 20 billion feet
I wonder if it's a function of total surface area or if it's more about the weight pressing on your ankles...
I haven't had my feet measured since I was a kid wtf?
Shoes must be cheap then lol
That's what I was going to say. Kids shoes are cheaper.
I'm 5'10" with a size 14 shoe, and it's frustrating because they stop making half sizes above 12 which means it's often difficult to find a good fitting shoe. I also have a 6'5" wingspan so shirts always either have too short of sleeves, or they are way too long on the torso.
I also assume that kids shoes don't last as long, though. There is no reason to build them to last.
I HATE that about having big feet, I'm on my feet all day and it doesn't matter if I go up one or down, my feet are going to hurt, just in different ways.
Damn that sucks. You need a dedicated clothes manufacturer lol
Get me a small man’s foot-suit, please.
I get the reference!
Be careful what you wish for. Small feet on a man mean you'll be sentenced to a life of small dick jokes. Which is certainly not the worst thing in the world but it isn't great.
My message was a tenuous reference to Flight of the Conchords (New Zealand's fourth most popular folk-comedy duo). So it’s understandable that it was misunderstood, however, I did appreciate your thoughtful response.
Here’s the song if you need a laugh: https://youtu.be/yjfSZu246zE
I had a girlfriend who had the inverse of your problem — her feet were far too large for shoes aimed at women. She ended up becoming friends with a bunch of drag queens, and finding that the specialist store they got their shoes from was the best place for her
Okay Hank Hill.
Peggy Hill!
Same here, and now our seven year old is already a size 3, like OP.
I’m 6’3 with what I thought were fairly small feet at 10.5/11. OP’s on a whole ‘nother level, but hopefully saves a lot of money on sneakers at least!
I have this problem, but width only, not overall size.
I just wear men’s shoes, and even those are wicked hard to find. There isn’t really a category of shoes for my size (not big enough overall for drag shoes to be right, but far too wide for normally sized women’s shoes - I wear 6-8 [brand dependent] 4EW in men’s) and I’m not willing to spend a fortune on shoes to have cute custom ones made, so men’s shoes and sandals are my options. Boring.
Did you call her L?
Skinny 5'3 guy here. I've had that experience buying pants. "Maybe you'll find something in the kids' section".
Went out with my cousin who is 5' 4". He buys pants at the kid section.
I tried to poke fun at him and this short king eviscerated me how I had to pay a "Height tax" since his clothes are durable and cheaper.
Those are not bad. They fit better and honestly look better. Tight shirts shouldn't only be for buff guys.
180cm tall guy, with longl back and short legs. Actually knowing it's impossible to find pants that are short enough has made buying them easier. Once I accept I need to take them to a seamstress to have them shortened anyway, I just need to find a pair with the right width.
Sadly no such simple solution for most shirts out there being too short.
I have the same problem with shirts. If it fits across my chest it's too short, if it fits length wise it is baggy across chest and stomach.
Recently I found a brand that offers a extra long sizes. Eg if the sizes are Small, medium and large they offer small+, medium+, large+. The only difference is the cut is 5 cm longer.
Get a sewing maching, even better, an overlock. Buy the bigger/longer size and sew them thinner. Its surprisingly not that hard.
You know it's become a personal beef when you know the trade name of the device that insults you.
Wow dude, that's crazy. Like, in a cool way.
My great-uncle was very small when he was born - the family story is that he used to sleep in a shoe box instead of a crib until he was almost a year old.
Probably not your shoe box, though.
Well? Is what they say about big feet true of the inverse?
Yes. Small socks.
Tell us the damming truth!
No honestly I can't say it is. I have small hands but other than that totally average.
I'm just confused by why you keep getting your feet measured. I haven't done that since my feet stopped growing, I know my size by this point
I only got my feet measured for a new pair of running shoes at a new running store that just opened up. You're right - I don't have to combat the Brannock device on a regular basis.
I swear to fuck there was another lemmy user that was really tall but had like size 4 feet and there was a pretty cool AMA
Ya I remember that. They had a pic of them in business attire I think
Edit: Here is that post:
https://lemmings.world/post/19924381
Same person
Dope, they'll go down in Lemmy history for having funny proportions
Yes, I remember this too! 😂
Do you happen to sprain your ankles often? Just wondered if it felt like you were less balanced than other similarly sized men or did your brain just adjust and accommodate for the lack of leverage naturally subconsciously?
I have sprained my ankles in the past but not since I was a teenager...maybe adjusting to my growth spurt when I was still wearing size 1s haha. Now I'm fine I guess I have adjusted. Of course, I've never been normal-footed so don't have a point of reference but yeah I'm not falling over myself like a newborn fawn as you may think.
So valid! Thank you, and sorry for asking what may have felt like a poignant question
Do your feet hurt a lot? It sounds like a lot of pressure on a small area
Good question. You would think but my calf and foot muscles are quite strong to compensate for what I lack in foot surface area. They do get sore after a long day but nothing too crazy.
I guess weight is more important than height for that maybe. Tall often means heavier but not necessarily.
The foot is a lever. A shorter lever has to bear less load.
Uh, no, that's actually the opposite of how that works. Pressure is force per area, and torque is the cross product of force and length (at right angles). The smaller the area, the higher the pressure. The smaller the foot, in this case, the harder the muscles have to work to create the same torque (or moment). #ThanksForAttendingMyPhysics101TEDTalk
That would be relevant to the calf muscles, but the lower surface area of the feet means higher pressure in terms of psi or pascals.
Those feet must look like hooves.
I'm imagining it and that sounds hot
TL:DR He says his dong is normal sized.
edit: Nevermind. Linked post was the same person.
You have different shoe sizes for men and women? WTF?
Where do you live that they don't?
In Japan everyone knows their shoe size in centimeters. Those stay the same regardless of gender or whatever other crazy unrelated topic to how big something is.
Shoe sizes are Unisex here in in Europe as well as in Asia. And in Asia they are even smarter - they simply use centimeters, while we use "Paris Points" of 2/3s of a centimeter.
Just so you know: Women shoes are different in both width and length*.
Probably because men often need wider shoes.
Well, that's why you still have mens and womens sections in the shoe shop. But it definitively makes it easier e.g. to find a shoe for a woman with wide feet, just take a mens' sneaker in the same size.
Have you looked into shoe inserts that essentially reduce the size of the shoe interior? My friend has extremely small feet and faces a similar problem of not finding shoes that are small enough, and I think she's had some luck with the inserts
Dude this is insane. First I feel like you'd be more prone to falling over or something? Like top heavy?? But on the other hand you can probably go up most stairs without feeling like you're about to fall to your death. I have average foot size for my height and all stairs I have to be on my tip toes. Honestly have wished I had smaller feet many times in my life. Thanks for sharing! Not something I ever thought was a thing.
My balance is not too bad actually my body has had my whole life to adjust to its situation with my feet. I also go up stairs quickly on my tip toes but yeah I do always feel that stairs have ample room for my feet. Another positive is I pretty much never stub my toes.
I think that's the normal way of walking upstairs. I bet even OP does it.
I thought the normal way was to crawl up on all fours like an animal
Does it cause issues with balance?
If I were in your shoes (lol) I'd freak people out by wearing bigger sizes and stabbing through the toe ala Mr deeds
OP is a Rob Liefeld character.
In all seriousness I hope you can find a decent specialty store that will get you comfy/stylish/both shoes.
If your feet stay the same size why don’t you just order online? I know testing them out can be nice, but you can return online orders.
I can’t remember the last time I went shoe shopping in person, because I know my size and which companies I need a larger or smaller size shoe for. Also why would they keep measuring you if you know?
You're right I usually do buy online. I only went in to a fancy running store that just opened up because I do run and was wondering if they had anything other than youth sizes so they had to measure me (and I took this photo because I thought it was hilarious). They did in fact have a better running shoe for me!
Glad you got it worked out, what kind of shoes did you end up buying if you don’t mind me asking?
My brothers feet are massive and he can never find shoes that fit properly. Mine are a bit wide, so I always have to get a size up to be comfortable, but I manage.
The feet might not change, but shoe sizes are not consistent. Even two shoes of the same make, model, and size can differ. When your feet are very small, the tolerances are also very small.
This. My feet are very wide. Every once in a while I'll find a good fit (usually have to go overly long), and hope that the style is manufactured for more than a year. Otherwise it's a nightmare finding an actual fit.
Bruh was a deer in his past life
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My size (9) is constantly sold out. I was wondering if you experience fewer sold-out issues with your size.
I'm on the opposite end as OP, I wear size 14. They are very hard to find since most manufacturers and shoe stores only go up to 13, and a lot of the ones that go to higher have a very limited selection in larger sizes. I would imagine it's similar at the lower end of shoe sizes.
Yes can confirm it's very hard to find age appropriate shoes in my size. Most are Velcro or have glitter or superheroes on them which is fine - I definitely have some of these as "house shoes" but finding proper dress shoes or boots is very tricky. Running shoes are also difficult to find as I'm below the threshold for women's sizes.
Same problem here with size 13. Most stores maybe have a couple available in my size so I mostly just wear Nike since they consistently have my size available.
I used to know a guy they called "Princess" because he had slightly smaller feet than average. He was a little short, very manly beard, muscular frame, deep voice. His feet weren't even notably small or anything; he played football and you couldn't really tell they were anything to write home about at all. Because they weren't. He wore a size 40 I think, that's like size 7 US. And yet: Princess.
Yes I sympathize. Kids and teenagers like to pick up on any kind of difference so you can imagine what they made of my size 3 feet even at a time when I was struggling to come to terms with it. It all seems stupid in retrospect like my feet aren't deformed I'm just small pawed and really only a few inches smaller than "normal" feet but at the time it was the worst thing in the world
I bet your stiltwalking skills are exemplary.
Gr8 b8 m8
Gender binary is bs anyway
Do they get sore all the time? That sounds like a lot of weight on not much area.
Not as much as you would think. The body is incredibly adaptable. I have pretty strong foot and calf muscles that distribute the load I guess.
That's wild. Those are practically hooves.
Do you have small hands too?
Yes they are. Like 5 3/4" in length which I think is pretty small. Luckily this issue didn't affect any other parts of me!
I have size 16 shoes.
Unfortunately this issue didn't affect any other parts of me 😐
you knew folks were going to ask. good for you for getting ahead of it. hehe
Oh I was just trying to find a way to work that question about your dick into the conversation naturally.
Do you find your foot or hand size to grant you advantages in certain niche situations (ie getting the last pringle)?
I historically found that my flat feet make barefoot walking a lot easier - big, flat contact surface distributes the pressure over a wider area, making shrp rocks less painful/likely to cut.
Is the size of your forearm same as your feet? https://drschoene.com/press/doc-blog/is-your-foot-the-same-size-as-your-forearm/
No my forearm is bigger
The Brannock has ruled. Misses section is right this way…
What's shoe shopping like? I have a friend with size 6 or 7 feet and he says he often find cheaper shoes because he gets away with buying kids versions of sneakers. On the other hand I've got wide feet so my options are often limited.
Shoe shopping in a store rarely happens. I can go to Kmart or Target and find shoes in the kids section, or go online. I was only going into a proper shoe store this one time to get a new pair of running shoes.
New club hit just dropped
"I like my ment tall
With feet that are small"
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Are those Iron Man socks?
They're just some random crayfish socks. I don't have Ironman but have most other superhero socks, including my fave Spiderman socks
Heck yeah man, I wish they made Spiderman socks in my size!
Are you built like a pirate from the knees down?
Don't bother...my gf has small feet also and we go shopping in kid's department/shop
Same. Sometimes it's the same shoe at a discount, other times kids shoes are lower quality.
Or if you're into it, they can light up with each step
Same. My girlfriend also used to have massive tits. We're talking DDD's. She ended up getting a reduction, but it was funny because she used to have to go to Lane Bryant for tops and Kids Foot Locker for shoes.
have you tried wearing kids size?
I pretty much can only wear kid's sizes. But I was getting my foot measured because a new running store opened up that carries a women's running shoe in a 5 and it runs small so with slightly thick socks I can fit in it fine. The first non-kids running shoes I've had in my life!
While I'm 5'9 (176cm) with size 12 ( man 45 europe ) shoes since I was 15/16 ( same height and foot size since that age )
Haha same here. I'm around 5'6 or 5'7 and I find depending on make, I'm either size 11 or 12 shoes. Also have pretty big hands (or long fingers at least). I've always thought of my hands and feet as big puppy paws that I never grew into lmao.
You could totally be a great Satyr for Halloween
why....why do you keep getting your feet sized if they haven't grown since childhood??? you know your size! be a man and pick out your own fucking shoes!
Did you not read the Brannock device?
Shoe sizes change throughout life. At 18 i was a 4E width, at 25ish 4E was too narrow and a 6E fits better. Some people also have different variences between feet (ie, half a size difference between left and right foot)
Sizes also vary between brands/shoes.
they literally just said they've been the same size since grade school. this is what you do: -go into shoe store. -grab pair of shoes in same size you currently wear. -too big? grab a size down. too small? go up. -stand in line and purchase shoes -leave store with dignity in tact from small feet shame
***BONUS POINTS if an employee tries to help you and you tell them "I'm okay, i can handle it."
Based on your posts, I hope we learn more about you that is not about your feet :p
Most people wear shoes that are too small.
This is amazing.
Absolutely no offense intended here, but like is your balance bad? I'm curious how this affects you.
I'm size 5 men's and have trouble finding shoes, can't imagine searching for size 3
That's what you get when you don't use the metric system