Pointe Size Charts

If your looking to buy pointes shoes wether online or in the shop, you should have a good idea what size you are. Another good thing to know is what type of foot you are.

Match up what your foot looks most like, look at the text and the picture to get a more exact confirmation.

Greek:

• If you have kind of tapering toes (toes going diagonal)
• Your second toe is the longest
• You have wide types but narrow tips
• Your big toe is very wide

Egyptian:

• Your toes taper
• Your big toe is the longest, then 2nd toe the 2nd longest and so on...
• You have a wide toe

Square/Giselle:

• Your toes are basically the same length

When deciding what shoes you buy take in consideration that the shoes are all different, such as the boxes are more square or more pointed.

You can view the picture here: http://www15.plala.or.jp/miagolare/Eng_fitthing_chart0627.gif

The Egyptian type should stay more in the pink and blue type areas and the Greek type should head more into the yellow and green type areas, square fits alot of them but needs more of a large square box as the toes don't cuddle the rounded shape.

To get a more exact size of your foot, get a pen and paper and put the paper up to the wall, making sure it's in portait style. Then put your heel up to the wall on the paper put a line with the pen and mark the paper at the end of the longest toe, or trace around the top of the foot. Get a ruler and rule across the page, the longest point of the foot, then use the ruler and measure from the bottom of the paper to the longest toe and write the number down in centimetres. (Inches is okay too.)

Then you'll have to use a chart like this:

http://www.shoesreviewss.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Shoe-Size-Chart.jpg

(Look at a few of those conversion charts as none of them are exact.)

Match up the centimetres or inches to get your sizes, write all of them down on a piece of paper. All of them, US, Australian, UK, Mexican, cenimetres, whatever! All of them!

Then use a pointe size chart like this:

http://www.prima-soft.com/images/primasoft/shoes/pointe_size_chart.jpg

or this...

http://www.motionunlimiteddancewear.com/i//Pointe_Shoe_Chart.jpg

or maybe this:

http://www.motionunlimiteddancewear.com/i//Pointe_Shoe_Widths.jpg

And write down the number that appears the most for the Bloch brand.

Then the Capezio brand and so on.

Then you'll know! If theres a lot of different numbers, choose the brand and write all of those down, then average it. It's confusing, I know.

Or you can just go get them fitted at a shop :)

Keep in mind the street shoe size will most likely be listed in U.S sizes.

So if your a 7 or 8 in Australia you may be a 5 or 5 1/2 in U.S sizes.