RELATED HOSIERY AND SHOE SIZES

While it is scarcely advisable to order shoes (by mail, for instance) by the sizes of one’s hose, it is quite practicable, satisfactory and comfortable to order hose by the size of one’s shoes—that is to say by the relation of these sizes to each other, to wit: Men’s hosiery— | Shoe | 5½–6 | 6½–7 | 7½–8 | 8½–9 | 9½–10 | 10½–11 | | Hose | 9½ | 10 | 10½ | 11 | 11½ | 12 | Average weight in cotton, 2½ ounces per pair; wool, 3½ ounces. Children’s hosiery— | 1 Infants’ shoe takes | 4 -in. hose | | 2 and 3 Infants’ shoe takes | 4½-in. hose | | 4 Infants’ shoe takes | 5 -in. hose | | 5 Infants’ shoe takes | 5½-in. hose | | 6 and 7 Children’s shoe takes | 6 -in. hose | | 8 Children’s shoe takes | 6½-in. hose | | 9 and 10 Children’s shoe takes | 7 -in. hose | | 11 Boys’ shoe takes | 7½-in. hose | | 12 Boys’ shoe takes | 8 -in. hose | | 13, 1 and 2 Boys’ shoe takes | 8–8½-in. hose | Average weight per pair, cotton, 2 to 4 ounces; per dozen, 20 to 40 ounces; wool, about 50 per cent more.