Van Bommel shoemaking is still a matter of craftsmanship and we continuously strive to create the best fit possible. But it is also this very aspiration which can make it more difficult to determine your right shoe size. Below you will find a size conversion chart detailing European sizes in centimetres and how these numbers translate into UK sizes for you to easily determine your size.
| EU size |
Cm
foot |
Exact
UK size |
Recommended
UK size |
| 38 |
25,3 |
4,9 |
5 |
| 38½ |
25,7 |
5,3 |
5,5 |
| 39 |
26,0 |
5,7 |
6
|
| 39½ |
26,3 |
6,1 |
6
|
| 40 |
26,7 |
6,5 |
6,5 |
| 40½ |
27,0 |
6,9 |
7 |
| 41 |
27,3 |
7,3 |
7,5 |
| 41½ |
27,7 |
7,7 |
8 |
| 42 |
28,0 |
8,1 |
8 |
| 42½ |
28,3 |
8,5 |
8,5 |
| 43 |
28,7 |
8,9 |
9 |
| 43½ |
29,0 |
9,3 |
9,5 |
| 44 |
29,3 |
9,6 |
9,5 |
| 44½ |
29,7 |
10,0 |
10 |
| 45 |
30,0 |
10,4 |
10,5 |
| 45½ |
30,3 |
10,8 |
11
|
| 46 |
30,7 |
11,2 |
11,5 |
| 46½ |
31,0 |
11,6 |
11,5 |
| 47 |
31,3 |
12,0 |
12 |
| 47½ |
31,7 |
12,4 |
12,5 |
| 48 |
32,0 |
12,8 |
13 |
| 48½ |
32,3 |
13,2 |
13,5 |
| 49 |
32,7 |
13,6 |
13,5 |
"Meetings, those are one of the most pointless things that I can imagine. When I am in a meeting I normally draw little puppets. At a certain moment during a very long meeting I realised that I was trying to make all these puppets fit into each other so you get a large all-over pattern. Subsequently I spend a few more hours on this and now it has become a beautiful pattern that is applied underneath this sole. It contains all different kind of animals: an elephant, a dinosaur, an octopus, a dachshund, a bird etc. It has become some kind of 'Escher on mushrooms'. Apart from that, the shoe is just a nice basic boot with a wide fit."
