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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Greg Goss   
    wrote:   
      
   > Your Name  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Hence shoes (for example) here in New Zealand confusingly come either   
   > >in UK or US sizings.   
   >   
   > It took a while here before shoes supplied from China could be   
   > depended upon to have US sizes than a much different one (presumably   
   > UK) one.  (Occasionally you see metric sizes, too, but that's rare   
   > here).   
      
   The other thing that doesn't help is that they have kids' sizes as well   
   ... so "size 7 shoe" is rather meaningless since it could be child,   
   adult, US, UK, etc. On top of that you can have "wide fit" and "narrow   
   fit".   
      
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