Is it me or has shoe sizing changed?

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Either shoes in the U.K have been resized or my feet have shrunk!

I used to be a standard 4 (37), but these days am a 3 (36).

I know vanity sizing for clothes is a thing but has the same happened to shoes?

Another bigfoot here!! Always usually could
squeeze into a 7.5, occasionally 7. But now its size 8 or forget it. sometimes even a 9 😫 drives me round the twist because size 8s are hardly ever in stock. I hate it

I've found I'm an 8 instead of a 7, so the opposite has happened!

yes! I've given up trying 5s and go straight for 4.5/4 ... it's very strange!

There's a perception that feminine women have small, dainty feet. Not just from men, either - I was a very, very broad size 6 surrounded by females with feet from size 2 to size 4. I was made to feel like a freak, especially as my adult brothers were the same size as me, but were narrower width fittings.

And later on, an ex also said my feet weren't normal because they were so large.

I have a feeling that it's always been a thing.

I was a 7 until childbirth, went up to a 7.5 after that. Recently I have had to buy 8 in a lot of styles, which has seems strange, interesting that others have noticed too.

MitziK size 6 isn't big, it's average! Or at least it used to be. The only woman I know with truly tiny feet is also 4'8" so everything about her is small. But yes, it's been a thing for a long time. Think of dainty Cinderella being the only woman with feet small enough to get into the glass slippers, compared with her evil sisters and their ungainly clodhoppers.

I can be a 6,6.5 or a 7 in English sizes but I’m always a 40 in euro sizes so that’s what I check for.

Is there an official sign up sheet for the ex-size-3 support group? I find Skechers are quite small, or at least they were a couple of years ago when I couldn't avoid shoe shopping any longer...! It's basically impossible for me to find nice shoes with any kind of heel higher than maybe an inch if I'm lucky. Most girls' shoes are pink/flowery/glittery... I am none of those things, I just want comfortable shoes/occasionally a pair of heels!

I've always been a 6.5/40.

I’m another that used to be 7.5 and is now an 8.