It’s a back-to-school tradition: a visit to the neighborhood shoe store, where employees pull out a well-worn metal foot measuring tool from under a seat to measure children’s feet, fit them with the ...

The U.S. is finally adopting the international foot. Measurements are updated pretty regularly, considering they're so static otherwise. The change is unfathomably minuscule to anyone but big-picture ...

LIVERPOOL, N.Y.—Many have tried, but no one has ever come up with a more elegantly simple way to measure the human foot than Charles Brannock, inventor of that ubiquitous metal gadget found in shoe ...

If you don't mind feet on your iPad's screen, this week's app is useful: Pitter-Pad lets you use your iPad to measure your little one's shoe size. When I was a little girl, I liked when the Stride ...