Recommended Sizing for the kybun Footwear with Wide Soles
A lot of footwear is produced in a medium width, so many consumers learn to settle on the size that generally fits the width of their feet, even if they end up being a bit too long. But because many kybun shoes come in an extra wide (4E) width and so can accommodate virtually any foot if selected primarily on the basis of the person's actual foot length, kybun's general advice is thus to actually measure the length of your foot and use their look-up table to determine which size you need, rather than just going by your usual choices. In some cases, you may find it is a half or even a full U.S. size smaller than you are accustomed to, but it will be a comfortable fit, nevertheless.
The sizing method kybun recommends is thus to:
1) Measure your foot from the back of the heel bone to the very tip of the longest toe (on the largest foot, if there is a difference) ...by placing two sheets of paper (or some other flat material you can draw a line on) at least as big as your feet on the floor immediately in front of a door or a wall, oriented so you can stand on them; taking your shoes off; and, wearing socks of the same thickness you'd normally wear with this style of footwear, standing upright on top of each sheet, placing your full weight on both feet, with the backs of your feet flush with the door/wall; having someone else draw a line (because our feet can shorten when we bend over) along the front of the longest toe (which is usually, but not always the big toe) of each foot; and then measuring the length from those lines to the bottom of the sheets with a ruler or tape measure.
2) Look up length of your largest foot in this table, and find the recommended size on the adjacent column(s) (whether U.S. or European, but European would be far less prone to shipment error since that is how they're produced, ordered from, and shipped by kybun - especially now that they are revising the U.S. equivalence scale for the women's models starting in Spring 2023).
3) Examine the shape of your foot, more specifically, its 'toe box' area, to determine whether to use that exact size reading for that length of foot – which you should if you have type 'A' feet, with the first three toes all being about the same length – or whether you have either the 'B' type of feet with just the big toe being long, or 'C' feet with the middle toe definitely being the longest, in which case you are now (as of mid-2023) advised to adjust the value you've looked up on the length table by adding one size increment to it (be it 2/3rds of a European size or 1/2 a U.S. size). (Alternatively, if you don't have Type A feet, just go back to step 2, and add 5 mm to your maximum foot length and look up those size equivalents on the next row down, instead.)
Sizing Chart for Wide-Soled kybun footwear
(for original (pre-Joya merger) U.S. Women's Size Equivalents)
|
Foot Length (in MM) |
EUR. Size |
U.S. Women's |
US Men's Size |
|
215 |
34 1/3 |
5 |
n/a |
|
220 |
35 |
5.5 |
n/a |
|
225 |
35 2/3 |
6 |
n/a |
|
230 |
36 1/3 |
6.5 |
n/a |
|
235 |
37 |
7 |
n/a |
|
240 |
37 2/3 |
7.5 |
n/a |
|
245 |
38 1/3 |
8 |
n/a |
|
250 |
39 |
8.5 |
6.5 |
|
255 |
39 2/3 |
9 |
7 |
|
260 |
40 1/3 |
9.5 |
7.5 |
|
265 |
41 |
10 |
8 |
|
270 |
41 2/3 |
10.5 |
8.5 |
|
275 |
42 1/3 |
11 |
9 |
|
280 |
43 |
11.5 |
9.5 |
|
285 |
43 2/3 |
n/a |
10 |
|
290 |
44 1/3 |
n/a |
10.5 |
|
295 |
45 |
n/a |
11 |
|
300 |
45 2/3 |
n/a |
11.5 |
|
305 |
46 1/3 |
n/a |
12 |
|
310 |
47 |
n/a |
12.5 |
|
315 |
47 2/3 |
n/a |
13 |
|
320 |
48 1/3 |
n/a |
13.5 |
|
325 |
49 |
n/a |
14 |
|
330 |
49 2/3 |
n/a |
14.5 |
The n/a (non-applicable) entries in this table denote that kybun currently does not produce Men's or Women's models (as the case may be) in those particular lengths.