Improving Heel Fit: the percentage method

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These heels often have fit issues across the heel diagonal. There are a number of solutions that will improve the fit. This is the most commonly used method, although it has some disadvantages. This video explains the fit issues, how to improve the fit, with examples for how to measure, what circumference gains you can expect, and what the advantages/disadvantages of this method are.

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Introduction: 0:00
Fit issues: 0:39
How the SR and peasant heel fit into the sock tube: 1:03
Standard proportions: 2:00
Ave. sock heel diagonal for different sock circumferences: 2:35
How to measure your heel diagonal: 3:04
Calculate target heel diagonal and actual sock diagonal: 3:20
Increasing the diagonal: 3:46
How much add'l diagonal for each 10% inc in width: 5:12
How the resulting heels look: 5:38
Extreme fit issues: 6:25
Pros/cons: 7:52
Final words 9:37


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