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2. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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   Standard metric foot sizes can be converted to the nearest Paris point (2 ⁄ 3 cm) sizes using approximate conversion tables; shoes are marked with both foot length in millimetres, as for pointe ballet shoe sizes, and last length in European Paris point sizes (although such converted Stichmaß sizes may come 1 ⁄ 2 to 1 size smaller than ...

3. Brannock Device - Wikipedia

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   Brannock Device [1] Brannock Device at shoe museum in Zlín, Czechia The Brannock Device is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for measuring a person's shoe size . Brannock spent two years developing a simple means of measuring the length, width, and arch length of the human foot .

4. Paris point - Wikipedia

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   It is commonly used for shoe sizes in Continental Europe. The unit was invented by French shoemakers in the early 1800s. [ 1 ] Its origin probably lies in 2 ⁄ 3 centimetre being very close to 1 ⁄ 4 inch; a French inch pouce-roi is around 27 mm, a quarter of that is 6.7 mm, close to 6. 6 mm defined for the Paris point.

5. Barleycorn (unit) - Wikipedia

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   Under the 1300 Composition of Yards and Perches, one of the statutes of uncertain date that was notionally in force until the 1824 Weights and Measures Act, "3 barly cornes dry and rounde" [2] [3] were to serve as the basis for the inch and thence the larger units of feet, yards, perches and thus of the acre, an important unit of area.

6. Talk:Shoe size - Wikipedia

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   I have tagged shoe size#length as uncited and tagged specifically as dubious the claim This is the basis for current UK and North American shoe sizes, with the largest shoe size taken as twelve inches (a size 12). (Straight away, a US 12 is smaller than a UK 12.) The article foot (unit) says 13 (UK), 14 (US male), 15.5 (US female) or 48 (EU ...

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