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Maybe I'm missing the point, but... well, why would anyone think that feet grow into discrete sizes like that or that the shoe sizes would be precise while stil
by sublinear 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing the point, but... well, why would anyone think that feet grow into discrete sizes like that or that the shoe sizes would be precise while still being comfortable?
- 0_____0 4y agoI suspect that people familiar with buying womens' wear are much less prone to this mistake, seeing as how one person might fit two or three size increments depending on brand.
- sublinear 4y agoSizes don't vary between brands as much as they vary between the materials used. That's true for all clothing. The second reason would be vanity sizing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_sizing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_sizing
- 0xcde4c3db 4y agoYet another reason is that quality control tends to be pretty terrible for anything but boutique/luxury brands (and even they have their missteps). There are situations where you can buy multiple of the same SKU and wind up with stuff manufactured in three different countries with obviously different fabric quality and measurements off by multiple inches. There's been something like a "marathon to the bottom" across things like clothing, shoes, and just about anything else textile-adjacent for almost a century. You can find articles from 50+ years ago lamenting how clothing used to last longer and have more consistent quality, and it's only gotten worse since then.