Your size is not one number
The same person can genuinely be two different sizes in two makes, and sometimes in two styles from the same make. A sports shoe, a formal shoe and a jutti are built on different lasts, so they fit differently at the same marked size.
This is why trying on matters more than remembering. Starting from your usual size and adjusting is reasonable; insisting on it is how shoes end up unworn.
Most feet are slightly uneven
One foot is usually a little longer than the other. Fit the larger one — the smaller foot can be taken up with lacing or a thicker sock, while a shoe that is too short for the larger foot cannot be fixed at all.
What wearing in can and cannot change
Leather uppers soften and mould to the foot, so a little firmness across the top usually settles. That is real.
Length does not change. Width across the bone barely changes. A heel that slips will keep slipping. If any of those are wrong in the shop, they will be wrong in a month.
Footwear can be exchanged within 7 days here, so the check that matters is the one made in the shop.
Come and try a few pairs
Fit is the part that cannot be settled online. The shop is open daily except the last Sunday of the month, and there are benches down the middle for exactly this.
