Shoe & Clothing Sizes

Read one size across every system on the chart — or print the chart itself.

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What this tool does

Shoe & Clothing Sizes holds seven fixed conversion tables — men's, women's and kids' shoes, women's dresses and tops, and men's jackets and suits, dress shirts and trousers — and reads a size across the columns of whichever one you pick. Choose the chart, say which system your number is written in, and the matching row comes back with every other column named: US 9 gives UK 8.5, EU 42.5 and a foot length of 27 cm, as text and as a table.

Leave the input empty and the whole chart is printed instead, which is the shorter route when what you want is the size chart rather than one answer. Sizes otherwise go in one per line, so a list pasted out of an order or a stock sheet is read in a single pass, and half sizes written as 9½ or 9 1/2 are understood alongside the plain 9.5. That pass is all or nothing, though: a single line the chart cannot place stops the whole run and reports its line number, so no results at all come back until that entry is corrected or dropped. A letter size is not always one row — M covers both US 8 and US 10 on the women's chart — so every row that letter touches is shown, with a note saying how many it spans rather than the first one being picked quietly.

Four columns are read as tape-measure figures rather than labels: foot length in centimetres on the three shoe charts, bust in inches, and the chest and waist centimetre columns. On those, anything within about 1.5 units of a listed row returns that row marked as the closest match — and the tolerance reaches past the ends of the table as well as between rows, so a 34 cm foot is answered with the largest size the chart holds, 33 cm at US 15, rather than being refused. Every other numeric column, the shirt collar in inches and centimetres included, allows about a quarter of a unit and no more. Letter columns and the kids' US column allow nothing: they match the text as written. Beyond the tolerance a size is refused rather than rounded, and the message names the span the chart covers plus, when the figure lands inside that span, the two listed sizes it falls between — so an ambiguous measurement is handed back to you instead of being answered with false confidence.

What this cannot do is fit you. These are the generic conversion tables between labelling systems, not any one retailer's chart, and clothing sizing drifts between brands, countries and decades — so treat a converted size as the size to try, and prefer the measurement columns whenever the seller publishes measurements. Width fittings are not modelled at all, so a D or an EE has nowhere to go. Coverage stops where the seven tables stop: no infant shoes below US 4, no bra sizing, no children's clothing, and no women's jackets or trousers. The kids' chart needs the most care. Its US column carries the 1Y to 6Y youth labels, so it is matched as text and a kids' US size has to be written the way the table writes it; its UK column runs 3.5 up to 13 and then restarts at 1 for the youth range, which means UK 3.5 is an 11.4 cm toddler foot while UK 3 is a 22.2 cm one, and the tool reads that column as a single run of numbers without knowing the two scales apart. Check it against the centimetres before you order.

How to use it

  1. Pick the chart. Seven of them: men's, women's and kids' shoes, women's dresses and tops, and men's jackets and suits, dress shirts and trousers. The size systems offered change with the chart you choose.
  2. Say which system your size is written in. The second dropdown lists that chart's own columns — US, UK, EU and cm for shoes; US, UK, EU, IT, JP, a letter size and bust in inches for women's clothing.
  3. Type the size, one per line. 9, 42.5, 9½ and M all work, and a pasted column is read line by line. Leave the box empty to print the full chart instead of a lookup.
  4. Read the row. Every other column for that size is listed, and any number that was close rather than exact is labelled as the closest match to what you typed.

Processing & privacy

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Common use cases

Buying shoes from a foreign site

The listing quotes US 9 and the pair you already own says 42.5. One row shows both, plus the UK number and the foot length to check them against.

Working from a tape measure

If you know a foot length in centimetres, or a chest or waist measurement, that column is a steadier way in than a label you half remember from a previous purchase.

Translating a letter size

M on the women's chart spans two US sizes, and seeing both is the useful part: it tells you the label is coarse before you commit to an order.

Listing clothing for sale abroad

Print the chart and quote the US, UK, EU and IT equivalents in the description, so overseas buyers are not converting in their heads.

Ordering a shirt by collar

Collar sizes run 14 to 18 inches against 36 to 46 cm, with the international letter beside them, which is what an EU shirt listing is asking for.

Questions

Is anything I type uploaded?
No. The charts are part of the page and the lookup happens in this browser tab, so the sizes you enter go nowhere and nothing is logged. Once the page has loaded, a lookup makes no request of any kind — though there is no offline copy kept on your machine, so a fresh reload still needs the connection.
Why was my size refused?
Because it is not on the chart, and it was not near enough to a listed row to count as the closest one. The message names the span the chart covers and, when your number falls inside that span, the two listed sizes it lands between, leaving the choice to you. Type a word rather than a number into a numeric column and the wording is blunter, saying only that it is not a size on that chart.
Will the converted size fit?
It is the size to try, not a promise. Every chart here is the generic conversion between labelling systems, and real garments vary by brand and by cut, which is why the bust, chest and waist columns are worth more than the label when a seller publishes them.
Why does one letter size return two rows?
Because letters are coarser than numbers. M maps to US 8 and US 10 on the women's chart, so both rows are printed with a note that the letter spans two of them, instead of one being chosen for you.
Can I convert a width fitting or a bra size?
No. Widths such as D, E and EE are not part of any table here, and bra sizing is not covered at all. The charts convert length and girth labels between countries, nothing more.
What is the cm column on the shoe charts?
Foot length. Measure heel to longest toe, type the figure, and the nearest listed size within roughly 1.5 cm is returned and marked as the closest match — useful because foot length is the one number that means the same thing in every country. Bear in mind that a foot longer or shorter than anything on the chart is still answered with the end row while it stays inside that 1.5 cm, so read the cm value that comes back and not only the label.
Can I see a chart without looking up a size?
Yes. Leave the input empty and the selected chart is printed in full, every row and every column, which you can copy straight into a listing or a spreadsheet.

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