[pct-l] Foot Expansion
Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes
diane at santabarbarahikes.com
Mon Feb 4 19:25:32 CST 2013
Sorry for so many emails on this topic. I've been interested in feet
and shoes for a long time, having suffered foot problems all my life
from there not being any shoes to fit me right. This actually led me
to teach myself how to make my own shoes.
One thing I learned from shoemakers is that you can feel with your
foot a difference as small as less than 1/8 inch. Therefore, the
tolerances when making a shoe need to be very close--measurements of
the leather need to be in millimeters. This explains why so many
different shoes will fit so differently. It takes only a millimeter
here and there for a shoe to feel completely different to your foot.
Secondly, there is very little difference between sizes. Half sizes
can be as little as just a few millimeters in difference. So when you
say that you had to go up 2 sizes, it's really not a very large
amount even though it might FEEL like a large amount since your foot
can feel a couple of millimeters pretty easily.
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