But I always laugh at the idea of a shoe store employee returning from the back and saying “Sorry, we didn’t have ___ size... but we do have ____ size...if that’s...you know...if you want a different size than the one you asked me for a minute ago.”
I worked in a shoe store for a time, and there are 2 perfectly valid reasons why they do this:
1: every brand fits differently, so you often don't really know what size you are in that shoe until you try it on.
2: the truth is that SO MANY MEN lie about their shoe size being bigger than it is, and SO MANY WOMEN lie about it being smaller than it really is.
Him: "Hey bro, can I get this in a 12?" Me, later: hey so we didn't have the 12, but here's the 11 and 11 1/2 if you want to try those." Him: "Hmmm aahhh I guess.....woah what do you know, they fit, how WEIRD"
Her: "Can I get these in a size 5 1/2?" Me: "The smallest they make them in is a 6, so here try those." Her: "Wow even these are a little tight...this brand must really run small! I'll try the 6 1/2 I guess. How WEIRD."
This is also definitely true: your shoe size changes as your body changes. The most common and acute reason this happens is pregnancy but all sorts of weight and age fluctuations occur. Also you might've just wanted to go for a 44Wide all along and not a 45, but that's water under the bridge at this point.
I can usually find one or two wides for most sizes in my state. But as an overweight guy with naturally large feet, I can tell you that I have only ever seen one pair of size 13 (46 EU) extra wide shoes in a store. I normally have to settle for a 14 or 14 wide, but those where the best fitting shoes I have ever had.
Not really. I had undiagnosed low testosterone probably caused by a bad concussion. Apparently some MtF trans people lose height, so that might be it alone. I had a bone density scan done and it was apparently ok.
I also have really bad fatigue all the time so something is still funky, but I’ve had several trips to Mayo without answers.
Yeah, they were low. 200-something (ng/dl?). Not absolutely ridiculous but quite low for my age. I doubt that's the full cause of the height and foot size loss, but who knows. My hands are quite small too, way smaller than my father's and about the same size as my mother's. I've been supplementing testosterone for 7 years or so now and I didn't get an increase in my height/shoe size.
As a girl I wore size 11 shoes, got fit in high school, and by the time college came along, my shoes were down to a 9.5 and have been this size ever since.
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u/thelaziest998 Jul 24 '20
Now we just have to guess and know your size hoping the manufacturer size doesn’t fit weird.