The Journal

The shoes are almost beside the point. Going shoe shopping with your friends on a Saturday is about the afternoon. The browsing together. The opinions. The trying things on. The...

The conversation about shoe sizing and teenage girls gets some attention now. What gets almost no attention is the version that carries on past eighteen. Young women in their late...

If you are looking for shoes in a UK 9 as a teenager or young woman, you already know the routine. You find something you like. You check the sizes....

If you found this post, you probably searched something like "shoes for girls with big feet" or "bigger sizes teen shoes UK." Those are the right words to find what...

You already know the shape of it before you go in. The girls' section stops somewhere around a UK 5 or 6, sometimes 7. The women's section picks up from...

If you wear a UK size 9, 10 or above as a teenager (EU 43 and above), you already know this moment. You find the pair. You check the sizes....

You found a shoe you love. You check the sizes. And then you realise you are not completely sure what size you actually are, because the last time someone measured...

If you have ever found the perfect shoe and then discovered it stops at a UK size 8, you already know the problem. Most brands were not designed to go...

Once you know your size, the next challenge is making sense of the different systems. Between UK sizes, EU sizes and US sizes, or others like JPN, Brazil, converting between...