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January 4

How thick can the sole of a dress shoe be?

What is the normal thickness of a dress shoe's leather sole? When does it start to be too thin or too bulky? Would people wear thicker soles in winter? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hofhof (talk • contribs) 21:06, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ladies or mens?--86.187.167.6 (talk) 00:36, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This site [1] about dress shoes gives average thickness of leather for various parts of shoes, saying the leather outsole averages about 12 oz (3/16 inch). SemanticMantis (talk) 01:01, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Or just under 5 mm in common units. Fgf10 (talk) 08:27, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I should make a habit of using the convert template: {{convert|3/16|inch|mm}} which produces: 3⁄16 inch (4.8 mm). Understandably, it does not work for converting ounces to inches or millimeters :D SemanticMantis (talk) 18:26, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]