7, 7.5, and 8 are the highest selling shoe sizes today and shoes are ordered in a kind of bell curve accordingly, with much fewer available in smaller and larger sizes. Years ago, 5 was a women's sample size and most women wore 6 or 7, but that is no longer the case. read more
At the beginning of the 20 th century the average woman wore a size 3.5 or size 4 shoe. This increased to a 5.5 in the forties and remained this way till the 60s. By the 1970s, the average female foot was a 7.5 and now, forty years later, the most common foot size for the American female is somewhere between an 8 ½ and a 9. read more
Its funny because if the shoe goes on a male model they are typically taller and can’t ware the shoe sampled in for still photographer as the average model of 5′11″ or more has a size 10 or larger shoe. For women’s shoe the most common sampled size is a women 7 (US) for photography not on figure and 8 for on-figure. read more