OT; growing foot size

It is obvious what is going on. You started with the standard imperial foot as used in America now with the world going metric your foot is naturally wanting to go metric too. Instead of being your old fashioned and worn out foot it is changing into the modern metre. Locate your local metric shoe store and you will find a shoe to fit your modern metre.

Mastic

How I wish that were so. Some time back I bought 2 size 11 tennis shoes cheap (bright orange-unpopular color) to use when I'm wading in the mud. They were so big my kids thought they were clown's shoes. Now the same shoe is a snug fit (without socks) and the other unworn pair is exactly the same. My foot IS growing.

OTOH, I have noticed that size 11 shoes made in mexico are noticably smaller than US made.

Maybe Red Wing. They used to be able to get large shoes. ERS

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You might ask your doctor to test you for Acromegaly, you might have problems with your pituitary gland. It is just a glucose tolerance test, no big deal.

Not uncommon in older people. Your arches start to fall after middle age and the foot gets longer. The higher the arch to begin with, the more growth in length. Steve Monroe

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Red Wing has become a joke. They used to be a fine company making really good products. The price was high until you factored in product longevity and comfort, then it was a true bargain.

Then a new generation with new thinking assumed control and now they have cut back on narrow and wide widths and discontinued many of their old standbys in favor of shoes made with paper thin leather and glue together construction.

Hitchcock wide shoes for men:

Same thing happened to my wife. Had a size 5 when we were married, not they are an size 8. Ofcourse, she weigh twice as much now and way back then too, and is two inches shorter

Geeze..any country boy knows whats happening. He is not wearing shoes enough, particulary when out in the pasture..all that manure stuck between his toes is simply fertilizing his feet. All us tall old Finns know this,

Gunner

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. - George Orwell

I don't know how many E I have but I wear size 12-13 sneakers from Wal-Mart... fits fine. The Dr. Scholl's inserts feel good, too.

But then, my oldest brother recently had to buy size 15 shoes...

Tim

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Shoes? You don't need no stinkin' shoes! What kinda country hick are you?

its not that your foot is growing, its is that your foot is getting flatter and speading out thats why you need a bigger and wider shoe.... happened to me.. as a 21 yr. old i had a size 8... and when in my 40's i went up to a 10.. now at 58 i am a 10 1/2 D(medium)... the foot is spreading out thats all.. a sign of old age....

My Dad wore size ten, eleven fit so well he wore twelves Gerry :-)} London, Canada

That's too bad. I thought that they might be up to something though. They bought Vasque. I used to buy those fine Italian made Vasque boots but don't anymore because they are now made in CHINA!! And no drop in the price either. ERS

Actually my weight has been pretty well unchanged for 25 years.

First I discover that you were a yooper, now I discover that you're also a Finn. You are full of surprises, Gunner.

We do a camping trip in the UP every autumn or two. Some things in some places have changed very little in 45 years. Younger people in Ishpeming and Manistique now speak like they were from Nebraska, but they kin tawk yooper if they want to eh.

Mexico uses binary numbers, those are really size 3's.