Dear All, At our local 'Officeworks' store I found a copyright leaflet near the 'Copy Centre' that used a drawing of a running shoe as its principle illustration.
A shoe was shown as a line drawing in plan and side elevation views. It was the dimensions that attracted my interest. The plan view showed the shoe to be 2800 long; the toe was 700; from the toe to the top of the tongue was 1100; and from the top of the tongue to the back of the shoe was 1000. There was no reference to any units on the drawing at all. My guess is that the units are tenths of millimetres (decimillimetres ?) as a shoe could reasonably be 280 millimetres long. It looks to me like the running shoe manufacturer is designing and making their shoes in tenths of millimetres and then advertising them to the public in the size numbers that we know are based on the lengths of barley grains. It's an odd world! Cheers, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia
