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Is it only for men? The ST/TT size is spot on though...
The factors to correlate foot length to height etc. are gender (and to a certain extent race) specific. Foot length seems to reach mature length much earlier than legs (femur, tibia). Given the impact on growth from estrogen it seems that women can have comparatively longer feet yet shorter legs and whence longer torsos. The reason that women have smaller feet is that they are shorter and there is a social aesthetic trend to wear too small shoes (in its most cruel form as the sexual fetish of Chinese foot bindings)! Woman's bicycle fit is, however, additionally complicated by the gender differences in muscle mass, flexibility etc.
EdwardZ
@JWestland
My shoe size is 2 sizes too small then ;)
Is it only for men? The ST/TT size is spot on though...