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Supposing you wear a size 6 shoe. Did you ever wonder what that number means? No, it’s not six inches. In 1324, the king of England decreed that an inch was equal to three barleycorns, or grains of barley. At the time, an average man’s foot was said to be 39 barleycorns, or 13 inches long. This was called size 13. A shoe that wa
