Buying shoes is always a pleasant experience, especially for women. How happy a new pair of beautiful shoes or sneakers pleases women! And so that the new thing was not only beautiful, but also comfortable to walk, shoes should be bought just right, in accordance with their dimensions.
This article will provide information about the insole size 38 sizes - the most popular among women.
Why know your shoe size?
With this information, it will be easier to purchase shoes in ordinary stores and on the Internet.
Entering an ordinary shoe store, you can reduce the time for trying on and instead of three pairs of different sizes of shoes you like, try on only one. After all, not all sales consultants have the talent to visually determine the length and width of customers' feet.
When ordering shoes in online stores, you must know your insole size. There are quite a lot of 38 shoe sizes in all types of stores, since such a length of a female foot is average.
And another important point about knowing your size. With this information, it is much easier to order shoes from foreign sites where the scale of values differs from the Russian one, and you can translate them only knowing the exact size of the insole. There are a lot of 38 shoe sizes, so discounts on it are much less than on such a rare size as 35 or 42 women.
Shoe Numbering Systems
Depending on the units in which the foot is measured, there are several systems of dimensional nets for shoes:
- International, which is used in Russia and all post-Soviet countries. For example, a foot length of 24.5 centimeters has 38 shoe sizes. On the insole, such shoes will be half a centimeter longer than the foot.
- The European system is also centimeter, but has a number of nuances, as a result of which the size of the 38 insole will be one centimeter smaller than in the previous size grid.
- English - inch measurement system. It has the smallest size - “0”, corresponding to four inches. Numbering shoes goes through 8.5 millimeters.
- The American system is similar to the English, but it is better not to bother with it and immediately know the value for your insole size.
Leg fullness
A greater number of shoe buyers do not pay attention to such a size indicator as the width of the foot. And this is sometimes very important, especially for those who have it wide.
Accordingly, GOST 3927-88, Russian shoe manufacturers use numbers from 1 to 12 with an interval of 4 mm to indicate leg fullness.
In European shoes, the width of the foot is in the range from 1 to 8 sizes, which change after five millimeters.
In the United States and Great Britain, the width of the foot is indicated by letters that change after half a centimeter.
We measure the foot. 38 size
How many cm on the insole has shoes of this size, it is not difficult to find out. You just need to look into any of the dimensional tables, of which there are a huge number. Well, so that there is no doubt left, you can measure your foot yourself.
At home, determining your shoe size is simple. This procedure is best done at the end of the day, when the legs are slightly swollen from prolonged stress.
You need to stand barefoot on a piece of paper, circle the foot along the contour and measure the distance from the longest toe to heel. The same thing needs to be done with the second foot (since it is known about the asymmetry of the human body) and choose the greatest length. Round the result up to 5 mm.
Next, look at the dimensional table, in which you need to find your size value in any of the measuring systems of dimensional grids.
For example, 38 size in cm on the insole is 25.
Advice
It is best to measure the parameters of the foot in socks and at bedtime, so the result will be more convenient.
If you are in doubt about the correct size when buying in a store, then it is better to choose the one that is larger.
And if the purchase is in the online store, then it is better to find the dimensional grid of the selected manufacturer, since sometimes there is a deviation in one direction or another by 0.5–1 centimeter.
There are cases of squeezing the foot and rubbing calluses due to the fact that the size that has always been right for you is small for a certain brand.
And the best option for buying shoes online is to try on them in a regular store, followed by ordering on the website of the same model, which corresponds to the article.