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Find Your Shoe Size - Step by Step Guide to Measuring Your Feet

By Desiree Stimpert, About.com

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Measure the Length of Your Foot

Measure Length of Foot for Shoe Size
Use your ruler or measuring tape to measure the length from the bottom line to the top line that you drew in step three.

Be sure to hold the measuring tape straight, and find the closest mark that you can (for inches, use the closest 16th mark) - don't round up or down dramatically.

Write this number down. (Next)

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