The size 10 of my mother's era, is more like a size 6 of today.
A few years ago I spotted a photograph of American G.I.’s purportedly taken right after they were freed from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
The website displayed the photo as evidence of the starvation conditions under which the GI’s were held captive.
I could not believe my eyes, because the GI’s in the photo looked pretty trim and fit—nothing like people who suffered deprivation at all.
My only guess is that the normal sized men in the photo appeared to the person who posted the photo as if they were starved half to death, when in fact they seemed perfectly normal to me.