Not literally. My entry titles are often not literal.

Remember, though, how in Cinderella, the way they determined who she was, was by finding who the missing glass slipper belonged to. They determined that by trying to find who it was the "perfect fit" for.

Well, you may recall that I'd never been able to find gloves that fit until I couldn't find mens small and tried womens, finding that, for the first time in my life, I could actually understand the phrase "fits like a glove".

Well, on chat earlier today Kristen and I were talking about whether I should get clothes that fit in the misses dept, or try to find a reasonable match in the mens and belt them in. This led to a generalized mens fashion discussion, which led to men wearing heels, which led to shoe sizes, mens and womens, which led to me admitting that I wear my shoes too large in the toe in order to have room in the width...

I decided then, to actually measure my foot, and then consult an online sizing chart. I couldn't find even a close approximation in the mens chart, I'd have to wear a mens 7 4e, or 7 extra wide, and 7 wides aren't even made, let alone 7 extra wide. Shoot, finding 8 wides would be near impossible. Anyways, if such a shoe were to exist, it might be only slightly too big on me, but the dimensions would be close.

So I decided heck, I have womens hands, maybe I have womens feet. Consulted the womens chart, and found that my foot size was nearly ideally designed to fit in a womens 8.5 d, or 8.5 wide. At least according to the charts and my measurements.

So I went to the mall and tried on lots of shoes in all the various shoe stores, and came to the undeniable conclusion: My ideal shoe size is, indeed, womens 8.5 wide. Every single shoe, every single style, that I tried on in that size, fit my foot like a womens small glove. ;P

I hunted the mens shoes for something that approximated my measurements, and found absolutely nothing. 7 was indeed pretty close in the toe, but was far too narrow, 8 wides were clown shoes, 8.5 regular, as I've been wearing, almost fits in the width (slightly narrow yet), but has way too much toe room. 8.5 wides like I used to wear before I started to simultaneously lose weight and feminize, were really clown shoes.

Just like my girly hands, there's just no denying it, I also have girly feet. What makes this even stranger is that I had no trouble finding womens 8.5 d's, while finding mens 7's at all, 8 e's, or 8.5's has always been a task.

Not sure what to do about when I go bowling, alleys have always only carried, at least for mens, only regulars. Never asked for a womens size, obviously. But if they only carry womens sizes in regulars as well, guess when bowling I'll just have to deal with having entirely too much toe room. Mens 8.5 with only just over 10 inches will be marginally better for my just under 10 inch foot than womens 10 with 10.31 inches... And, if the alley doesn't carry half sizes either, which many don't... Men's 9's would still be marginally better than womens 10s. If they have wides in womens, but only whole sizes, a 9 wide is very very close.

Could see if I can find and buy bowling shoes that fit, I suppose... I've never really had a huge shoe collection, and I don't really go bowling that often, but then, I've never actually found a shoe size that actually fit before.