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2. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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   The recent formula used by the Brannock device assumes a foot length of 2 barleycorns less than the length of the last; thus, men's size 1 is equivalent to a last's length of 8 + 1 ⁄ 3 in (21.17 cm) and foot's length of 7 + 2 ⁄ 3 in (19.47 cm), and children's size 1 is equivalent to 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (10.8 cm) last's length and 3 + 7 ⁄ 12 in ...

3. Brannock Device - Wikipedia

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   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. He eventually improved on the wooden RITZ Stick, the industry standard of the day, [2] patenting his first ...

4. Barleycorn (unit) - Wikipedia

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   SI units. 8.4 6 mm. A chart of Imperial and United States customary units. The barleycorn is an English unit of length [1] equal to 1⁄3 of an inch (i.e. about 8.47 mm). It is still used as the basis of shoe sizes in English-speaking countries.

5. File:Shoesize-adult-en.svg - Wikipedia

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   File usage. Metadata. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 799 × 255 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 102 pixels | 640 × 204 pixels | 1,024 × 327 pixels | 1,280 × 409 pixels | 2,560 × 817 pixels | 999 × 319 pixels. Original file ‎ (SVG file, nominally 999 × 319 pixels, file size: 46 KB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons.

6. File:Shoe sizes for adults by foot length (multilingual).svg

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   English: Shoe sizes for adults in Mondopoint, EU, UK and US systems, measured by foot length (multi-lingual) Русский: Размеры обуви для взрослых в системах Мондопойнт, EU, UK, and US, измеренные по длине стопы (несколько языков)

7. Shoe - Wikipedia

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   In the US, this is size 2. Men's and women's shoe sizes often use different scales [citation needed], and some systems are measured using a Brannock Device which considers the width and length size values of the feet. The Mondopoint system, introduced in the 1970s by International Standard ISO 2816:1973 "Fundamental characteristics of a system ...