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Lashra -> RE: American Woman (7/24/2006 6:37:44 AM)
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Well I'm far from the average American woman then. I'm 5' 8" and 230 lbs, I wear a size 20. Frankly I think that height is off, most of the women that I know are at least 5' 6 and over.
Not to hijack your thread but I found this interesting tidbit regarding shoe size:
Not only are Americans getting fatter, we're getting bigger and taller, and our feet are keeping pace. Podiatric historian William Rossi says that this enlarging trend has been going on for about 150 years. At the beginning of the 20th century, the average American woman wore a 3.5 or a 4; by the 1940s she was strapping on a 5.5. According to The Professional Shoe Fitting Manual, the average American adult female's shoe size in the 1960s was a 5.5 or a 6; in the '70s, it climbed to about 7.5; and in the '80s, it reached 8 or 8.5. No stats have been added yet for the '90s, but you can do the math: By now, the average women's size could hover somewhere in the 9s. Besides, due to regular wear and tear, foot ligaments and joints stretch—which means that over the course of a lifetime, shoe size tends to increase by about one size. And this isn't just a feminine phenomenon; according to Army records, the average shoe size worn by male recruits has gone up from about a 6 to about a 9.5 since the American Revolution.
I wear a 9.5 wide myself
~Lashra
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