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To ask you what shoe size you are and what Converse size you buy?

98 replies

CousinLucy · 13/02/2021 18:36

Hiya. Just a bit of help.

I'm a size 6 shoe in all sorts of styles. I'm completely confuddled about what size Converse to buy online. It says they come up large, yet the cm length of my foot is too long for a size 6. If you wear Converse can you please tell me your usual shoe size, plus your Converse one?

Thanks. Posting AIBU for traffic

OP posts:
CousinLucy · 13/02/2021 18:59

OMG this is so useful thank you everyone!

I've got wide feet so think I'll buy a 6.5.

I'm buying direct from Converse.com/uk and I just can't be bothered to wait for the shops to open to try them out first.

@nyala the only problem with going with the cm chart is that I come up as a size 8 and Converse say their shoes come up big... I have never been bigger than a 6. That said, I bought some canvas pumps from Fatface in about April and their size 6 was small and I should have bought a 7, but I was online 🙄

OP posts:
CaramelPops · 13/02/2021 19:00

I’m a 5 abs but size 5 converse. I can wriggle into 4.5s but can’t walk long distances in them. They run accurate to size.

CaramelPops · 13/02/2021 19:00

And buy 🙈

cliffdiver · 13/02/2021 19:00

I'm a size 4, size 3 in child Converse.

Redyello · 13/02/2021 19:00

I'm a 7 / 7.5 and buy size 7s but it always takes a few wears to break them in and get them comfortable to walk and distance in.

DwangelaForever · 13/02/2021 19:01

I'm a 4 but I buy a 5, they're very narrow

notacooldad · 13/02/2021 19:01

I'm a 5 and buy a 5.
I usually put in a gel insole as well.

Cormoran · 13/02/2021 19:01

I buy my size for the low ones, but one up for the high model

0htooooodles · 13/02/2021 19:02

Size 6 and buy a size 6

IHaveBrilloHair · 13/02/2021 19:02

3 and 3.

Dyinghouseplant · 13/02/2021 19:02

5 and 5. DS in child sizes just gets his regular size as well.

SheeshazAZ09 · 13/02/2021 19:04

I’m a 6 and I’ve bought a 6 in the past but they are too narrow for me so I long ago gave up on them. I have wide feet and like to be comfortable.

Madwife123 · 13/02/2021 19:05

It’s the width you need to consider more.

I’m a 6 but have wide feet so wear a 7 in converse. My partner wears the same size as normal as she has standard width feet.

GrumpyHoonMain · 13/02/2021 19:06

@CousinLucy

Hiya. Just a bit of help.

I'm a size 6 shoe in all sorts of styles. I'm completely confuddled about what size Converse to buy online. It says they come up large, yet the cm length of my foot is too long for a size 6. If you wear Converse can you please tell me your usual shoe size, plus your Converse one?

Thanks. Posting AIBU for traffic

If you have narrow feet then you can usually buy smaller. If you have wider feet they will come up small.
Chicchicchicchiclana · 13/02/2021 19:06

Yabu.

boymum9 · 13/02/2021 19:10

I'm a 6 and always buy a 6 in the usual style and also the 70s version (which are infinitely more comfortable). I live in converse and have never veered from a 6. I had read before buying the 70s that they came up huge and to size down, but they didn't have the size down left in the Black Friday deal I was looking at so bit the bullet and got 6 and I'm glad I did because they fit perfectly!
I don't have wide or narrow feet.

LaPoesieEstDansLaRue · 13/02/2021 19:34

I am a 5 in absolutely every shoe style I've ever had, including Converse.

Vinorosso74 · 13/02/2021 19:37

I'm a narrow footed but longer size 5 (size 6s are generally too big) and size 5.5 Converse fit me perfectly.

DameEdnaFitzgerald · 13/02/2021 19:40

I’m size 6 and always get my Converse in a 6, and they fit perfectly.

Vans and Adidas I wear a 5.5

CeibaTree · 13/02/2021 19:41

I'm 6.5 but even if I go up to a 7 they are still too narrow for my toes - and I haven't even got particularly wide feet. I used to cram my feet in them as a teenager but haven't worn them for years.

Naticus · 13/02/2021 19:41

Is it giving you US sizes OP? A UK 6 is a US 8 I think.

Kitkat151 · 13/02/2021 19:42

I’m a 6 and I buy a 6.... very comfy on me...no rubbing

MolyHolyGuacamole · 13/02/2021 19:48

I'm a 10 and bought an 11 once was too big. The 10 was too small. Only time I had a perfect fit was when they did a metallic range, was a different material to the canvas and I bought a 10 in Gunmetal and they were my favourite pair of shoes. Am devastated that they discontinued them, as I've never been able to wear a pair of theirs since.

Nacreous · 13/02/2021 19:54

I am a 4 and have to buy a 5 but I have very wide feet and I wish they did a wide fit as 5s are very long on me.

Minikievs · 13/02/2021 19:55

I'm a 5 and buy a 5. They are narrow but I do have narrow feet so it's ok.
However..... I find converse take AGES to break in. They're literally foot bleedingly painful to start with. Then they're ok. If I bought a bigger size they'd flap about after a while, but fuck me they hurt when new.

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