Table of European shoe sizes. Matching Russian and European shoe sizes

In recent years, more and more popularity is gaining the purchase of footwear of foreign brands through their websites on the Internet. Most often, shoes are ordered from Europe or the United States of America, so you can be sure of the quality of the purchase, as well as avoid fakes. At the same time, the price is pleasantly pleasing, because it is smaller than in retail stores located in shopping centers.

But when making such an online purchase, the main thing is to guess with the size, so as not to face an unpleasant procedure for returning the goods, which entails a lot of time spent and a spoiled mood.

The table of European sizes of shoes comes to the aid, but often, being guided by it, it is possible to make a mistake.

What's the matter?

You can get an answer to this question after reading this article.

Length of foot and insole

There is no table of European shoe sizes, but it often happens that the numbers in them differ, because there are taken into account factors such as completeness, length of the foot, the height of its rise. It is worth noting that some brand footwear manufacturers have their own separate size grids, slightly different from all European (they can be found on the site of a particular brand).

But in any case, for the correct choice of the size of shoes, the main role is played not by a number indicating the size, but by the length of the foot (or, as in Europe, the length of the insole).

Having studied the compliance of Russian and European shoe sizes, it can be easily noticed that the dimensions differ by about a centimeter. The main reason is that Russian manufacturers make shoes, focusing on the size of the foot (its width and length), and their European counterparts in their tables indicate the size of the insole, which is usually one or even one and a half centimeters longer than the foot.

So it turns out that the European and Russian sizes of shoes differ by one cm. For example, if the owner of a foot 25 cm in length has 38 Russian shoes, then according to the European table this length corresponds to 37 sizes. Based on this, you need to order shoes of the 39th size.

Determine the length of the foot

It is best to determine its length independently, especially since it is not so difficult.

This procedure is best done before bedtime, when the foot gets the maximum volume due to fatigue and small swelling at the end of the day.

It will take a blank sheet of paper, preferably A4, a pencil or pen and a ruler or a meter of cloth.

Stand with a foot (preferably dressed in a sock) on a piece of paper and circle it, with the pencil at right angles to the floor.

Next, mark the extreme points along the length of the foot (heel and usually the thumb) and connect them with a line.

The length of this line corresponds to the length of your foot.

It is known that the human body is asymmetrical, this also applies to the size of the feet, usually the right foot is larger than the left, but there are exceptions.

In order to accurately calculate the size of shoes, you should do the same operation with the second foot. Select the length that is longer.

Next, look in the table and find the value that corresponds to your length.

Determine the length of the insole

The main distinguishing feature of the table of European shoe sizes is the length of the insole, which is indicated instead of the length of the foot.

The length of the insole is a guide for the choice of footwear of European manufacturers. To find out what the size of your insole, you need to add a centimeter to the measured length of the foot.

Next, we need a table of European shoe sizes, look into it and find a value that corresponds to the previously measured parameters.

The width of the foot. How to identify

The European shoe size has one more important indicator, besides the length of the foot - the width or the fullness of the foot.

This information will be especially useful for owners of too narrow, wide stops or owners of high lift.

It is especially important to know the fullness of the foot for shoes made of hard material (skates or rollers, for example).

To measure it, you need to take the same footprint that was used to calculate the length, and measure out the widest part.

The table of the European sizes of footwear on width of a shoe hardly differs from the Russian. This system has eight gradations, which are designated by numbers from one to eight with an interval of five millimeters.

English shoe size system

As it became clear, you can not buy shoes in online stores, focusing only on Russian shoe sizes. European and English tables of shoes sizes also differ significantly, many inexperienced buyers who thought that these systems are the same received unsuitable footwear.

The English measurement system is inch and is calculated along the length of the insole.

In the children's table of the size of shoes for the minimum size is considered to be the size of the foot of a newborn, which on average is four inches.

Further numbering goes every 1/3 inch or eight and a half centimeters.

For example, the size of shoes 5 will correspond to the 22nd Russian with a foot length of thirteen centimeters.

The same figures indicate the size of children's shoes after six years and the adult size of shoes.

The size of shoes 5 for men's shoes or sneakers is the initial starting size corresponding to 37 Russian and 24 centimeters in length of foot.

Methods for measuring baby feet

How to determine the size of an adult foot, it is already clear, well, and with the measurement of the child's case, of course, it is more complicated. Here a big role is played by the restlessness and misunderstanding by children of the fact that one must stand still.

A large number of children's shoes stores are equipped with special devices for measuring the length of the foot, they are usually colorful and disguised as a toy. Many parents were lucky in this way to know the size of their baby's legs.

If there is no possibility or desire to go shopping for this purpose, then you can do the procedure of measuring the toddler's foot yourself.

There are several ways to determine the size of a toddler's leg.

Cartoon

Ask the child to stand on a sheet of paper and turn on his favorite cartoon, usually the children are so addicted to what is happening on the screen that they do not pay attention to what their mother is doing at this time. Draw both feet with a handle and connect the distance between the extremities along the length of the foot.

Line on a piece of paper

If your child is not so fond of cartoons, so as not to notice the event that is performed with his legs, you can shorten this procedure in time. To do this, simply draw a straight line in the middle of the paper and ask the child to stand on a sheet of paper so that it passes through the middle of the thumb. Then quickly mark the points on the line of the foot boundary. Measure the length of the segment that you got.

Wet footprints

This method is suitable for measuring the length of the foot of particularly restless children. It is to force the child to stand with wet feet on a sheet of colored and thick paper. You measure the resulting wet imprint, according to which you can even find out how much the child has and how much it has flat feet.

From the obtained measurements, select those that are larger, and round them up to half a centimeter in the larger direction.

Next, you need to add to the length of the foot half a centimeter for a summer and a centimeter and a half for winter shoes.

Then, based on the size table, choose which one best matches the resulting result.

As can be seen from the table, the European sizes of footwear for children are divided into age categories.

The main advice on the choice of children's shoes: better more than less, as the children grow rapidly.