Women's legs are getting bigger

A recent UK survey found that the average size of women's shoes has increased over the past 5 years.

Debenhams - one of the leading fashion retail companies in the UK over the past two centuries - has conducted a survey of women's foot size based on the total number of women's shoes it sells in 5 years. According to Telegraph, the results showed that in 2009 the number of shoes of size 9 (the largest size for women in Debenhams' supermarket chain) increased by 23%, while the number of shoes of size 6 decreased by 17%. Now Debenhams is considering selling female shoes of size 10.

Medical experts believe that the expansion of 'obesity pandemic' is the main cause of increased female foot size. They claim that the habit of eating high-fat foods during puberty increases the amount of growth hormone.

Michael Paynton, chairman of the British Foot Association, told the Daily Mail: 'I've been practicing foot problems for 42 years. During that time I noticed that the average foot size changed significantly. In the past, women's legs were difficult to fit into size 6 shoes, but now they are standard sizes. In the past most men used shoes of sizes 6 and 7, but today sizes 10, 11, 12 are becoming popular '.

According to Paynton, the change in foot size is the result of evolution, because in general people all over the planet are getting bigger and taller.

A survey of national body sizes in the UK shows that the size of British women is getting bigger. 60 years ago the average height of women in the mist was 157.48 cm, now that number is 162.56 cm.

Debenhams has 155 stores across the UK, Ireland and 50 other franchise centers in 17 countries around the world. The Debenhams shopping center appeared in Ho Chi Minh City at the end of 2009 in the form of a franchise.