General Chat

Maggie, the google info. is in several newspapers of the time. If you put "average sizes" you can read the full article(s). Most are in 2017, so I guess some sort of announcement was made and all the press quoted it.

I also wear ½size shoes and I agree that they are very difficult to find. As I tend to wear trainers most of the time (because they give good support and I am less likely to fall over) the next full size is a good fit.

Regarding height, people are taller because the children are better fed and medical care is much improved.

My sister was born in 1941 and we moved to Bath when she was 11. Bath was very heavily bombed in 1941 and when she started at secondary school she found she was taller than most of her class mates as they had all been born during the blitz. The children in the years above and below were all of a more normal height.

The half sizing of shoes is obviously much different over here, something that I'm glad to hear.

I take a size 9 for a snug fit or a size 9½ if I want to be able to wear slightly thicker stockings. I have no problems finding either full size or half size.

As I said above, shoe sizes over here are different from the UK and Europe. I'm currently wearing a pair of shoes size 41, which equate to 9½ North American.