Patrologia
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Basic question is: (1) do vintage shoes shrink-significantly, or (b) have sizings changed?
I ran across a pretty decent pair of vintage pebble grain Florsheim LWB today, marked 10 1/2 E today, and I am, by golly, a 10 1/2 E. so just to be sure I slipped one on. Granted, I was able to get it on, but it felt like a 10.5D or a 10E, no money on which. Maybe even a 10D. So did the shoe shrink, has sizing changed? If I wore it a few times (I don't think I could manage more than half an hour) would it go back to a proper size?
By the way, when I say I'm a 10.5E, I'm using current Allen Edmonds as the standard, except for the 5-last.
I ran across a pretty decent pair of vintage pebble grain Florsheim LWB today, marked 10 1/2 E today, and I am, by golly, a 10 1/2 E. so just to be sure I slipped one on. Granted, I was able to get it on, but it felt like a 10.5D or a 10E, no money on which. Maybe even a 10D. So did the shoe shrink, has sizing changed? If I wore it a few times (I don't think I could manage more than half an hour) would it go back to a proper size?
By the way, when I say I'm a 10.5E, I'm using current Allen Edmonds as the standard, except for the 5-last.