I don’t see the point in doing men’s vs women’s clothing sizes. Surely there’s a big enough variance in size and shape between individuals that it would be more useful to size based off of measurements of body shape?
Take shoes for example. Why is a uk men’s size 10 so wildly different from a UK women’s size 10?
All it seems to achieve is making shopping for clothes difficult for anyone that doesn’t fit into the expected body shape for their gender and make it hard to find well fitting clothes outside of specialist shops.
Many things like shoes could easily be for both men and women, like for instance sneakers.
But with the different size standards, that can’t work.
The result being identical sneakers have a series for women and another for men! Although usually the colors are different. But what if we would rather have a choice of ALL the colors?
It’s not just stupid it’s moronic.
Even if the length is the same, men’s shoes tend to be wider than women’s (sometimes much wider). So swapping is great if you’re a woman with wide feet, but if you’re a man with wide or even average feet, it would be much harder to swap to a woman’s shoe.
womens comes in a narrow and wide versions. if you need wide, wouldnt the wide versions of either work? im right down the middle and never had an issue with width in mens or womens.
Not quite. I was shopping for running shoes a while back and learned that generally, a women’s wide is the same width as a men’s standard. I think a women’s standard is usually called a B width, and the women’s wide and men’s standard would be a D width. Some brands do make other slight differences between the men’s shoe and the women’s shoe, so the swap might not always be 1 to 1, and some brands do unisex sizing, so there’s no difference in width for men’s vs. women’s.
In my experience a women’s wide is akin to a men’s regular.
OK I didn’t know that.
at least in the us, womens [generally] are just (men - 1). theres no reason we could not just have a single set of numbers for shoes.
Minus 2 in US
really? i have > 18 pairs of shoes that +1 worked perfect for.
I had to check. We’re both right / wrong. Difference is about 1.5 sizes.
interesting, thanks!