From an investigation carried out among some 1000 Spanish boys and girls of school age, it has been observed that the proportions of children's feet have nothing to do with those of adults; and disregarding that aspect will most likely result in footwear not adapting well.
The study has been carried out by a team of researchers from the University of Castilla la Mancha, and subsequently published in the Ergonomics magazine. Now you know that the feet begin to develop with typical sex traits between the ages of eight and ten.
And this difference is also important, because girls usually wear shoes that are somewhat smaller than they would be, since in this way the width is adjusted
This work has its relevance, since it has always been sustained that poorly adjusted shoes, shoes or boots in children, they can cause the foot to deform when they grow up. Currently, a general procedure is used in the design of shoes, consisting of taking into account a linear scale taking as reference the molds that are taken with car feet.
Participating girls and boys were between six and 12 years old, and the research aims to provide data on foot morphology during child growth. To carry out the measurements, a 3D digitizer has been used, and shoe sizes were also recorded, in order to estimate from the measurements of the foot length.
It is expected that in the future, the data can serve shoe manufacturers to design children's shoes based on sex.
