| An indication in centimetres or inches can mean the length of the foot or the length of the shoe's inner cavity | Children's shoe stores in the United States use a sizing scheme which ends at 13, after which the adult range starts at 1 |
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| Foot length is measured with the subject standing barefoot and the weight of the body equally distributed between both feet | For this measurement, the device has a shorter scale at the instep of the foot with an indicator that slides into position |
| For example, the wiggle room or different zero point is not taken into account, or tables based on different US systems traditional and athletic are simply combined although they are incompatible | Zero point [ ] The sizing systems also place size 0 or 1 at different locations:• All these measures differ substantially from one another for the same shoe |
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| This unit is commonly used in Continental Europe, excluding Russia and former USSR countries | 4 11 10 286 298 280 |
It makes no promise about manufacturing tolerances or for what size of foot the shoe is actually suitable.
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