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Originally Posted by nohmi2
 
Went into Google, and they have Lululemon in the Land of Oz! Have joined and got a $10.00 voucher for doing so.
Shall have a good perusal tonight when all chores are done.
Hitch, you do know why there is not standardisation for shoes don't you? Simply because then it would all make sense, and we can't have that in this crazy world
can we?
Many thanks to all.
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Actually, sadly, I
do know why we don't have standardized shoe sizes. (I know--I'm pathetic.) It's to do with lasts. Lasts are the "template" from which shoes are made; essentially, the outline of (your foot, if custom-made) a consumer's foot. There's a last for each designer; for each manufacturer; for each size. I, for example, struggle with Italian lasts, because while my feet are not wide, my heels are
quite narrow, so the shoe slips off the back of my foot. Higher-end British lasts work well on my feet.
As each country, each designer, each populace all have slightly different feet that they used to create each last (every last is created from a human foot model, to start), we will never all have the same size 6-1/2, or whatever. In many cases, such as mine, this isn't a bad thing--if all shoes were conformed to Italian lasts, I'd have a tough go. And the shoe sizes certainly don't vary wildly like women's clothes do, at least--a 6-1/2 in one manufacturer will be tight on me, but another's slightly loose--not the same thing at all as me swimming in one designer's size 3 while I can't breathe in another's 6.
Ah...a shoe discussion, at long last.
Hitch