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Five shoes numbering systems

In the CIS countries number of footwear consider the size of the foot, measured in millimeters, excluding allowances decorative shoes, warm socks and other things. The length of the foot measured from the heel to the point of serving the outermost finger.

In the French system the size of shoes is the length of the insole. The unit of measurement is the bar, which is equal to 2 / 3 inch thick. The length of the insoles is usually greater than the length of the foot on the so-called decorative allowance, which can be from 0 to 15 mm, which introduces some confusion in the translation from one numbering system to another. Today he is taken to be 10 mm.

English system – inch (1 inch equals 2.54 cm). Size zero is separated from the calcaneal curvature of the insole by four inches, that is the standard size of a newborn legs, and the numbering goes through 1 / 3 inch numbers from 0 to 13 and then again from 1 to 13.

The American system is similar to English, but in comparison with it is shifted to zero at 1 / 12 inch (2.1 mm). Thus, in English and American systems have a pair of identical dimensions.

There is another American system – for women. She further moved to the top measuring downward and is also numbered from 1 to 13, but only for large numbers.

Determine the size of

Our system size is compared with other number of differences: First, it conforms to international standard ISO 3355-77, and secondly, it is a metric. On it is easy to determine the number of shoes, not need amendments to the form of blocks. Length of the foot is determined by the given figure. Place both feet (with socks) on a sheet of paper and draw a pencil. Measure the distance from heel to big toe. If the left and right feet are different lengths, select the largest.

Completeness

Very important parameter size – obesity, which is mainly determines the usability of shoes, as they say its shoemakers’ vpornost. According to GOST 3927-88 men’s and women’s shoes should be available in 12 polupolnotah. For example, if the average amount of 240 women in girth socks-beam of the foot for the narrowest, the first of completeness is 212 mm, and for the general, the twelfth – 256 mm. (The beam in the language of shoemaking – the girth of the widest parts of the toe of the foot). The difference in girth is 44 + 4 mm, which is almost five centimeters. In fact, this figure is even higher, since the statistical analysis for the scale of the extreme values of extreme fullness discarded.

In the foreign countries relevant to its own population more carefully – there is known about 17 complete. On the English system the gap between the fullness is equal to 5 mm, completeness, denoted by letters (A, B, C, D, E and F). Under this system, there are five more fullness in the direction of decreasing girth (2A, 3A, 4A, 5A and 6A) and five complete enlarged (2F, 3F, 4F, 5F, 6F). There are complete, E2, E3, E4. Creature and other polnotnye numbering: letters – WWW, WW, W, M, S, SS, SSS, digital – from one to eight. Digital numbering is used in Russian, French and European systems, in the last two gaps between the completeness of 5 mm, in Russian – 4.

Footwear enterprises in many countries for reasons konyunkturnym specialize in producing shoes only certain fullness – narrow, medium or large, so customers know in advance what footwear companies for them. (For example, Salamander manufactures the widest European completeness of F, which corresponds to the completeness of our second).