Okay, so this might possibly be the worst blog topic of all time, but I need to tell someone:
I think my feet are growing.
Is that weird? I bought cleats last week in a MEN’S SIZE NINE. Wtf? I used to wear a women’s 9.5, but lately I’ve I started noticing that it’s more like a 10. In fact, I had to return the last pair of cleats—the ones I obtained via an offer I couldn’t resist, AKA a 50% employee discount—because I had pathetically clung to the idea that my feet are merely nine-and-a-halfs, not gargantuan tens.
And now here I am, donning the equivalent of a women’s 10.5, waiting for hair to start shooting out of them so I at least can make some cash as an extra if they ever make a Lord of the Rings 4.
I’m not complaining. The world feels like it’s on the brink of self-destruction and has far greater concerns than the escalating size of one little inhabitant’s feet. But it is strange, don’t you think? For a 23-year-old to experience foot expansion?
17 responses so far ↓
1 Boo // Jul 20, 2006 at 1:58 am
Yes, they are growing (not really, but if it makes you feel better I’ll go along, I’m up to the steamship 13 as of this very moment).
I do know they are supposed to get wider as you age, but I’ve never heard of longer at 23 in a female. Males often grow into their 20’s, so perhaps it is not too out of line statistically. Whatever the case may be you have to love them; they’re your feet. Maybe try a 9.5 B.
2 TimsHead // Jul 20, 2006 at 3:14 am
Well, we’ve known you were special for a long time. This is one more way!
Or maybe they are building shoes smaller across the industry. After all, they did change dress sizes so that larger people can now say they wear a size 8. OK, I have no idea why they would do a worldworld cleatsize realignment … but I haven’t had my coffee yet this morning.
3 squiddichino // Jul 20, 2006 at 3:48 am
You’re growing flippers. Squawk!
4 rubyblue123 // Jul 20, 2006 at 4:37 am
I hate to lay this on you but if you intend at some point in life to reproduce your feet will grow again!! Not lengthwise but widthwise. It was insane and I had to get all new shoes (which wasn’t too bad). I now consider my feet having stabilitrack because they provide a wider platform for better balance.
5 Magdalena // Jul 20, 2006 at 5:04 am
ah… another woman with big feet. i am 24 now and my feet have stopped growing - i think… at size 9.5. i’ll let you know if they start growing again.
ps: do they say anything about women with big feet? i wonder…
6 Jaki O // Jul 20, 2006 at 5:34 am
I think my feet have grown slightly, but not to the extent that yours are. I used to wear an 8 when I wore shoes without socks, but now it’s more comfortable to wear an 8.5. Go figure.
7 thinlizzy17 // Jul 20, 2006 at 5:43 am
I don’t think this is uncommon. My feet have gotten sort of wide at the ball of my foot over the last few years. Or maybe I’m turning into a duck.
8 tektoo2 // Jul 20, 2006 at 6:09 am
I think this has happnened to me too… or maybe Nike has just made their kicks smaller. At least you dont have to look down at a pair of size 14’s…
9 Corbow // Jul 20, 2006 at 8:57 am
This is pretty common. I wore a 7 in high school but by the end of my 20’s needed a size 8. I’ve read somewhere that it’s normal.
10 Lynn // Jul 20, 2006 at 11:21 am
My feet are not growing. I’ve been a size 6 since I was 15. But it’s not uncommon for adults to have some foot growth. It usually happens with pregnancy, but there can be other reasons.
I recently got some e-mail from a person who thought that size 6 was incredibly tiny and reported that she had friends who wore size 14. How can this be possible?
11 Carol M. // Jul 20, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Hiya Laura - regarding your footsies growing - this is all normal. I’ve heard that your feet can grow a full size. It happened to me also. Of course, I was not a size 9 1/2, but a 6 1/2 and when I hit my mid -20’s, I remember that during the summer, I was wearing sandals, flip-flops, etc. That Fall, when I went back to wearing closed shoes, I discovered to my surprise that I was now a size 7. At the time, I thought that it was the sandals that caused my feet to spread due to lack of support. I still, at times, believe that may have been the cause of my feet to grow slightly larger.
12 fern_forest // Jul 20, 2006 at 5:04 pm
I don’t know - my friend Cindy’s boobs grew two cup sizes when she was 26! I’m holdin’ out for that, personally.
13 Jay_Galk26 // Jul 20, 2006 at 7:04 pm
Hmmm…I was thinking about opening a circus and perhaps your just what I need. Btw I left a comment on my Xanga in a post about why I haven’t posted on the last few, just didn’t want you to think I was doing it on purpose.
Jay {Brad Pitt…in a robe} “Rawr”
14 Chicagoartgirl23 // Jul 21, 2006 at 4:59 am
I don’t know much about growng feet, but I know a lot about big feet. I’m a 10.5. But at 6 feet tall, I’m pretty sure that I’d topple over if I had little girly feet.
15 Teague // Jul 21, 2006 at 8:58 am
As most everyone else says, I think this is pretty common too. I’ve been told that if you don’t wear girl shoes, your feet will expand. I sort of had the opposite experience though. Recently shoe salemen have been balking when I asked for a size 10.5, measureing my feet and telling me that I fall at the edge of 9.5, maybe up to a ten. They tell me that I’m just being lazy and don’t want to break in my shoes. I wonder if this might be part of your problem too? If you don’t buy shoes all the time, I guess you forget that they need to be broken in a bit to be comfortable.
Teague
16 Meredith // Jul 21, 2006 at 4:07 pm
My dad has this theory that whenever someone in the world loses weight, someone else has to gain it. It’s called the theory of constant fat.
It must apply to shoe size too, because I was a solid 8.5 my whole adult life and am now a shrinking size 7.5. You and I must somehow be in cosmic equilibrium.
17 PhishChica // Jul 25, 2006 at 10:06 am
I’ve been buying a larger size lately, too! I’m a nine, but I’ve bought three pairs of flip flops this summer… all tens. I’m secretly hoping it’s just a glitch at the flip flop plant, and not my monster feet.