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Measure Your Feet Day

Fun · January 23

A day for measuring your feet, finding your true shoe size and learning how foot length and width shape the way shoes fit.

Measure Your Feet Day falls on Saturday, January 23, 2027. That is 88 days away.

Most people learn their shoe size once and then trust it for years. Measure Your Feet Day suggests checking again, with a ruler or a tape measure and a sheet of paper on the floor.

The method is simple. Stand on the paper, trace around each foot with a pencil held upright, then measure from the heel to the longest toe. Measure the widest part too, across the ball of the foot. Many people find their two feet are not quite the same size, and shoes are usually chosen to fit the larger one.

Feet can change over the years, and they tend to swell a little over the course of a day. That is why some people prefer to measure in the afternoon or evening, when their feet are at their fullest. Sizes also differ between brands and between countries, so a length in inches or centimeters is often more reliable than a number on a box.

Families with children sometimes turn it into a small routine, marking each tracing with a name and keeping the papers in a drawer. Kids' feet grow quickly, and an old outline next to a new one makes the change easy to see.

The paper tracing has one more use. Slide it into a shoe you already own, and if the outline spills past the edges, the shoe is too small.

Ways to celebrate

• Trace both feet on paper and measure length and width.
• Measure in the evening and compare with a morning measurement.
• Save your children's foot tracings with names to compare next year.
• Check an old pair of shoes by setting your tracing inside.

Dates

All national days on January 23

Also on January 23

• National Pie Day
• National Handwriting Day
• National Rhubarb Pie Day

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