Anyone out there know what the average toe length is?

Got in a discussion about this earlier on tonight. From what it seems to me, most peoples toes are these weird nubby things. My wife can't even move that strange bump she calls her pinkie toe. Me, my pinkie toe is a good 2 inches long, and I can move it totally independently. Of course my foot is a size 12 1/2 mens, and hers is a 7 womens. I've tried to google the answer seven ways to sunday, but there is apparently NO data out there on toe size! The size of other things sure, but does no one care about toes?

I'd really appreciate your help/feedback on this. Are my toes giant mutants or are nubby toes the weird ones? It's driving me nuts! :mad:

How about you out there? Small toes, small feet? All small toes? Giant toes all around?

:shrug:

I am the only one who finds these things interesting, or lies awake wondering what toes normally look like!

I must be :crazy:

I hate stubby toes. I have "elegant" toes. One of the few physical things I like about myself.

I like that. I'll have to share that with the misses. Sounds much better than "monkey toes"!

:D

then the first!!!!!! (on both feet!) and Im only a 10.5 shoe

Phylis Jackson, a retired Gloucester podiatrist, got her first inkling of a distinctively Saxon foot during World War II, when Hereford, the small city in western England where she then lived, was flooded with refugees from more significant cities (which were being bombed by latter-day Germans). Some of these evacuees became Jackson's patients, and some of them turned out to be of Celtic descent - Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and Cornish. "Poor things were coming to me with awful bunions," recalls Jackson. "I realized that the foot shape I was dealing with was quite different from the English one I was accustomed to."

Traditional English feet, Jackson says, tend to be broad and somewhat pointed - the toes form a steep angle from the first to the fifth. The Celtic evacuees, in contrast, had toe tips that were almost level with one another, and their feet tended to be longer and slimmer - except for a bulge at the base of the big toe, where bunions form.

www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n6_v17/ai_18289437

Ms. Jackson went into archaeology after retirement & skeletal remains seemed to bear out her theory.

"Celtic" is a bit overused--there's no evidence of Celts eradicating the inhabitants of either British Isle. They were just the last wave of pre-Saxon invaders. (Pre-Norman on The Other Island.)

My toes are quite long & delicate, thank you!

I'm sure he has some data to back up you theory....


On another note.....this just reminded me of the grossest thread ever....