Are our feet really getting bigger?

Interesting article on the BBC News website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8448268.stm

 

Well hundreds of years ago, people were much smaller than today, with tiny tiny feet.

So why not?

 

With the evolution of more and more women wearing running and flatter shoes, it allows our feet to spread out. Becoming wider and longer, when back in the day woman's shoes almost always had a heel and exercise didn't have as great as in influence as it does today. That is from the fashion point of view and woman's feet.

 

We could always go back to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding

 

My feet are only a size 8.5

 

I saw the same article today and was wondering whether it applied to Americans, too. Obviously, being the BBC, they were talking about people in the UK, but it would be interesting to know whether Americans' feet are getting larger. I was also interested in the fact that many young people are developing flat feet because of obesity as children. Children should run barefoot to avoid obesity and develop strong feet!

 

no. but when I see cute toes,, something else sure grows...

 

.........Oh Dear Lord...*sigh*.....



Cheers Glen.

 

Same here...

:leaving:

 

Many years ago I met a girl (Trish) in the Port Authority bus terminal in NYC. She was waiting for a bus to the NJ Meadowlands where the Grateful Dead were playing. She was barefoot and her feet were very dirty all over. I said "Hey, we like the same color shoes!". She propped her sole against mine. She wanted to see if hers were wider than mine. Despite her being younger than I, we matched (in size, filth and toughness).

Trish told me she didn't own any shoes and was able to work barefoot in a small clothing store in Greenwich Village. Judging from her soles, I believed her. From two ex-girlfriends and other barefooters I've met, I agree that bare feet promote wider soles. It's just natural from not being constricted by footwear.

 

This made me laugh a little. Come on...really? With growing numbers of people living sedentary lives, do you really think this is true? I mean, women wear high heels now as much as ever. Evolution does not happen within a few decades!

 

Perhaps all the hormones they put in our food has something to do with it - we're getting taller because of them, which, of course makes our feet get bigger. Big feet are necessary to stabilize taller people.

 

Well, people are getting a lot taller, it'd be silly to expect their feet to remain the same size. For my country, and only the past 25 years (it'd been going up for some time before):


Also, I may hope that at least a bit of awareness is starting to sink in of how bad small, narrow, pointy-toed shoes are for our feet as well as our entire posture. Maybe at least some women are finally considering comfort and health to be more important than fashion...

 

Interesting article about average European heights over the last 1,000 years.

 

well i wear a 12 but then again im 6 foot 2 and weigh 179 so i guess some people are getting bigger feet. people are getting generally taller every generation as well.
studies show that the average married man is 1 and a half inch taller then the average single man of the same age. but who really cares?

 

Bigger better faster stronger

 

I honestly can't remember what size shoes I take because I haven't bought any in over two years.

The last pair of shoes I owned were flip-flops. After they broke, I never bought any replacement shoes. Once my family asked me to go somewhere expensive to eat for a special occaision. They told me I had a pair of dress shoes that I left at my parents place and they asked if I could please wear them to the dinner. I wore them and they no longer fit me. My feet had widened or something. So after the dinner I took off those damn shoes that were cutting into my skin and deposited them in the trash can on the way home.

 

That's interesting isn't it? A lot of people seem to think that we have been getting taller in a straight line from our early (and short) ancestors like Lucy, but I knew that wasn't the case... we get lots of comments about that in our prehistoric section, things like 'oh, but people were very short back then', which really isn't so! But the article in the original post seems to be referring to the last century, and as far as I know, our height has been pretty much going up for most of that time, especially after WWII (for us anyways, not sure about the demographics in other parts of the world). Way back when there was no 'shoe size' as such anyhow; you got your shoes custom-fitted and custom-made, rather than buying a pair 'off the shelf' like people do today.

 

You know what they say about big feet......
Big cock.




.....socks doesn't apply

 

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Cheers Glen.