I bought shoes (there's a shoe store two blocks from where I often buy food on Sundays). Before I went there, I measured my foot as 220 mm * 95 mm, and brought the tape. Many, but not all, of the boxes have centimeters marked on them, all in uppercase. But none have the width indicated in metric. There's also a number which appears to be millimeters next to the letter J. Not knowing the width, I tried on one after another and found a J260 that fits. The bottom of the box has a chart, according to which Japanese 260 corresponds to 27.5 cm. Any idea why the offset?
Below the chart is a "legend" giving the names of various materials and parts of a shoe, seven in all, in seven languages. For some reason the Greek is completely deranged from the rest. phma
