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Sperry Women's Clothing Apparel Size Chart

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Length Conversion

Note: 1 inch = 2.54 cm, 1 cm = 0.394 inch, 1 foot = 30.48 cm, 1 cm = 0.033 foot, 1 foot = 12 inch, 1 inch = 0.083 foot

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If you do a lot of online apparel shopping, accurate body measurement using a tape measure is a must. The actual tape you choose doesn’t matter that much. This measuring tape set has two double-sided, 60-inch / 150 cm, durable tape measure in pink and black. They are small and light pocket-size measuring tapes, and they have accurate, large and clear markings in both inches and centimeters, which are very easy and convenient to read. They are also great for body measurement, sewing, tailoring, weight loss tracking, or measuring any curved surface.

How to measure without a ruler or tape measure?

If you don't have a ruler or tape measure handy, you can try to measure with a standard credit card, which has a width of 3 ⅜ inch or 8.56 cm and a height of 2 ⅛ inch or 5.4 cm.

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Sperry or Sperry Top-Sider is an American brand of boat shoe designed in 1935 by Paul A. Sperry, older brother of writer and illustrator Armstrong Sperry, whose books often featured a sailing theme.  Sperrys, or Top-Siders, were the first boat shoes introduced into the boating and footwear markets. Today the Sperry brand is owned by Wolverine World Wide and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

While sailing on the Long Island Sound, inventor and sailor Paul A. Sperry slipped on the deck of his boat and fell overboard. He was able to pull himself back on board, but the experience drove him to develop a non-slip shoe for boating.  While experimenting, he noticed his cocker spaniel's ability to run down an icy hill without slipping.  Examining its paws, he noticed traction-enhancing grooves - which he sought to mimic by cutting a pattern of them into a natural rubber sole utilizing a process known as siping.

The Sperry "Top-Sider" boat shoe that was introduced in 1935 featured a canvas upper, herringbone siping, and a white outsole to prevent the shoe from leaving dark scuff marks on a boat's deck. The Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Co. later partnered with Sperry on a design using specially tanned water-resistant leather, which became the familiar Sperry "boat shoe".

Sperry's shoes remained a niche product for boaters until 1939 when the U.S. Navy negotiated the right to manufacture the shoe for its sailors at the United States Naval Academy.  As a result of this increased production, Sperry sold the brand to the U.S. Rubber Co. in 1940.  In 1979 the Stride Rite Corporation purchased both Sperry and Keds (shoes) from U.S. Rubber.  In 2007 Payless ShoeSource acquired Sperry Top-Sider as part of a multi-brand acquisition. The company was purchased, along with the other brands from the Collective Brands Performance and Lifestyle Group portfolio, in 2012 by Wolverine World Wide and Blum Capital Partners for US$1.23 billion.

In 2009 Footwear News named Sperry Top-Sider the Brand of the Year.

In early 2015 Sperry announced that the brand had dropped the defining trait "Top-Sider" name from the company as part of the footwear company's new brand campaign.  By the end of 2015 Sperry had opened 68 specialty and outlet stores in malls across the United States.

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