Do your Feet Shrink as you get Older??

No mine have stayed at a 6 1/2 since I was a teenager still the same

Not mine. I still take the same size I did in my twenties. However I do choose my shoes by the fit, so if my size is too tight or too loose I’ll try the next size up or down.

Mine haven't shrunk, just got wider. ? Which is not good news as I have never had standard width feet...

My shoe size has gone up over the last 40 years!

I was always a standard size 5, but now in my 70s I am 5.5-6 and wide fitting, probably due to the bunions!

I am with "shysal" size 5 until my 60s now 5 to 6 wide fitting. Like the rest of me a sideways spread

My feet shrink if I lose weight.

Or so I vaguely remember?

No, mine have decided to spread They swell easily too and were pretty bad in the summer, then again, they've always swelled in the heat, or flying long distances. That said, they remain the same size as in my teens.

I hope my feet don't shrink, I only take size 2 as it is!

There are hardly any suitable shoes to be found in this size, let alone anything smaller.

I was a 3 in my teens then went up to a 4 and still that size

I was told by a chiropodist that they spread.
All of the tendons lose elasticity, and as a result your feet need more space in shoes.

That's what's happened with mine MissAdventure.
Hotter shoes for me now Slip-on loafers.

Mine haven't shrunk and neither have other parts of my body that I'd be rather pleased about if they did.

I’ve always had narrow feet and often went down a size to compensate. I often wore 5 or 4½ but when I visited a narrow fit shoe shop I found that I was actually 5½A. Problem is only AA or B is made, not A ?. So I try on, can’t order online and it’s fairly pointless to visit high street shoe shops. I travel to Peebles to buy shoes which are ridiculous prices but foot comfort is my no 1 priority. I recently had my feet re-measured because I thought they had put on weight ?. They were the same size. So I have slim feet - wish the rest of me matched! ? I’m now waiting for my new boots to arrive - they didn’t have the black that I wanted in stock.

No but I wish other bits of me had shrunk

Mine have spread and flattened - sort of like a pair of flippers now.

They haven't grown, but one has always been larger and wider than the other - and that has got wider, while the other has stayed unchanged. Getting shoes that are comfortable for walking any distance, other than trainers, is really difficult.

I was 5 1/2 when younger, now a six. Except for Hotter where I am still a 5 1/2. I think a lot of shoes now are quite narrow.

AreWeThereYet

I was 5 1/2 when younger, now a six. Except for Hotter where I am still a 5 1/2. I think a lot of shoes now are quite narrow.

I don’t wish to contradict you, (I’m fact I don’t think that I am) but I do know that my feet are narrow with ridiculously high insteps.
Maybe I’m buying shoes that have a wide fit factored in?

FridaysChild do you, like me, have dainty wrists too?

Hi Fanny

Please feel free to contradict. I'm new so I'm sure I'm going to get contradicted at some stage ?

I don't remember having problems buying shoes when I was younger but now I find lots of shoes much too tight in both directions - except Hotter. I measured my feet as they recommended and lo and behold the 5 1/2 fitted fine.

Someone told me once that cheaper shoes, like clothes, are nearly all made in Asia where the standard is shorter people with tiny, narrow feet and who knows what Western sizes they use. But I don't know how true that is of course. I just buy whatever size fits me best these days.

I'm still the same. When Eurosizing came in, some companies didn't use the same sizing. Size 8 can be either 40 or 41. Size 9 42 or 43.

I take a 9 and only a 43 will fit me. I'm occasionally brought out (when I used to shop for shoes) a 42.

Yes, my feet have got smaller and I am not so tall as I was but my weight has increased.

My feet went up from 3.5 to 4 in my 20s. They went to 4.5 in my 50s after weight gain but down to 4 again when I lose weight. They are still narrower than average. I feel that average shoes have got wider in recent years (the same as clothes sizes getting more generous). Most sensible shoes I can walk in are wide.