old solomon boot sizing - chart? size 335?

I've got a pair of old solomon boots that are stamped with 335. I know
solomon had their own sizing for a while and wondered what size these
boots are. does anyone have a chart online that I can look at?

thanks - Alex

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(alex) wrote:

I've got a pair of old solomon boots that are stamped with 335. I know
solomon had their own sizing for a while and wondered what size these
boots are. does anyone have a chart online that I can look at?

thanks - Alex


Hi Alex - that's from Salomon's "Heel-instep perimiter" days,
where a cable went around the ankle to try to take volume into
consideration, not just length.

IIRC, 335 roughly simulated a size 9 street shoe.





Iain

I don't have a chart, but 335 usually corresponded to about a US Men's 9 or
9 1/2.
HTH,
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mark
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I've got a pair of old solomon boots that are stamped with 335. I know
solomon had their own sizing for a while and wondered what size these
boots are. does anyone have a chart online that I can look at?

thanks - Alex

alex wrote:

I've got a pair of old solomon boots that are stamped with 335. I know
solomon had their own sizing for a while and wondered what size these
boots are. does anyone have a chart online that I can look at?

The number stamped on the boot is the *outside* length of the boot
expressed in millimeters, and is commonly called 'boot sole length'.
It's used to fit the boot to the binding and to determine the DIN
release settings.

While the sole length is loosely correlated with what's going on
inside the boot, it's not a proxy for what is usually thought of as
shoe size, which is determined by the *inside* length of the boot. .

IOW, the sole length is used to fit the boot to the binding. The shoe
size is used to fit your foot to the boot. They're not the same
thing. 335 merely means that the boot is 335 millimeters from toe to
heel on the outside.

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"Walt" wrote ...
alex wrote:

I've got a pair of old solomon boots that are stamped with 335. I know
solomon had their own sizing for a while and wondered what size these
boots are. does anyone have a chart online that I can look at?

The number stamped on the boot is the *outside* length of the boot
expressed in millimeters, and is commonly called 'boot sole length'.
It's used to fit the boot to the binding and to determine the DIN
release settings.

While the sole length is loosely correlated with what's going on
inside the boot, it's not a proxy for what is usually thought of as
shoe size, which is determined by the *inside* length of the boot. .

IOW, the sole length is used to fit the boot to the binding. The shoe
size is used to fit your foot to the boot. They're not the same
thing. 335 merely means that the boot is 335 millimeters from toe to
heel on the outside.

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// Walt
//
// There is no Volkl Conspiracy

Boot sole length is stamped on the outside of the boot shell, usually on the
side of the heel. Foot size is also stamped on the shells of many, if not
all boot shells. One way to tell the difference is that the sole length will
have "mm" after it (i.e., 331mm) while the foot size will not have any unit
after it. And, yes, 335 was a very common foot size in Solomon's proprietary
sizing system.
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mark

Walt wrote in zQFRb.1286$Nz2.27753
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alex wrote:

I've got a pair of old solomon boots that are stamped with 335. I know
solomon had their own sizing for a while and wondered what size these
boots are. does anyone have a chart online that I can look at?

The number stamped on the boot is the *outside* length of the boot
expressed in millimeters, and is commonly called 'boot sole length'.
It's used to fit the boot to the binding and to determine the DIN
release settings.

While the sole length is loosely correlated with what's going on
inside the boot, it's not a proxy for what is usually thought of as
shoe size, which is determined by the *inside* length of the boot. .

IOW, the sole length is used to fit the boot to the binding. The shoe
size is used to fit your foot to the boot. They're not the same
thing. 335 merely means that the boot is 335 millimeters from toe to
heel on the outside.


No Alex,
My memory from about 15 years ago is that Salomon did indeed
have a sizing system which wall their own. The size 335 does
not relate to the sole length. In fact the 335 was about the
middle of the size range for adult boots. It was the size we
used in the rental shop for release testing our rental bindings.
335 then, is about a size 8.

For comparison, my size 10 (mondo 28) modern Salomons have a
sole length of 325mm.

Salomon had their rental boots and bindings set up as a system.
It was so easy that you only had to look at the chart for the
DIN setting. The boot size was stamped on the binding. You
just set the heel to the boot size. If we got in a non-Salomon
boot, THEN we had to go through the rigamarole of looking up
the forward pressure setting based on sole length. In fact we
didn't trust the length stamped on the sole, we measured each
one.

RW

330 and 335 were the same boot length, the 5 indicating slightly wider
boot.

/Tommy P.