Remember when buying shoes came off as some kind of science. The shoe sales person was always considered right

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• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Back in the early days of x-ray technology some shoe stores would x-ray customers’ feet to make sure the shoes fit right

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is she…staring directly at the X-ray itself?

    Like, I don’t pretend to understand how X-rays work. I know they emit a wavelength of light that goes through soft tissue like nothing. And I know normally, nowadays (or at least before digital came around), there would be a piece of x-ray sensitive film on one side of the object, and a bulb that shone x-ray onto it, which would then be developed (i think in a process sort of similar to polaroid but I could be mistaken again).

    But…it looks like she’s looking directly at his foot through a special lens? Does it just put some sort of filter between her and the X-ray that makes it look like a really bright flashlight through the fleshy bits between your fingers?

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    • scrion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In the 40s, fluoroscopy was available, basically giving you a real-time, animated view of an X-ray picture. And yes, it did have all the associated dangers of prolonged X-ray exposure.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I remember a book featuring … Al the Gebra, I think? In it all tungsten in the world disappeared. One thing in the book that surprised young me was that X-ray machines stopped functioning.

      Apparently “tungsten has important niche roles in x-ray tubes.”

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    • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      …ieee.org/when-xrays-were-all-the-rage-a-trip-to-… has some pics

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  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And if they didn’t they left the machine on a little longer to take care of those offensive toes.

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• rcbrk@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  b&w photo of attendant and customer looking into fot xray machine at their feet

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  • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think back to when I first discovered the scanner at my parents work and how I would print pages of my face squished against the glass. First thing I would have done at the shoe store is stick my head under it and ask someone to look. I bet it happened regularly.

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• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I actually miss those days. I picked a style and it was their job to go get it and try it on me. I just had to sit.

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• Pistcow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Shut up, Peg

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• TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Now - ‘the shoes are over there’.

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• Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Apart from slightly different looking measurement thingies what has changed?

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I just used one of these on my gf yesterday to verify her shoe size at a puma store. So maybe the bench that we sit on is different, but that’s about all.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Society? 🤷

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• TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Now - ‘the shoes are over there’.

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Now we just guess and if we’re wrong we have our slaves in India make us new ones repeat until we realize the brand doesn’t make shoes that fit. try a new brand send them back because we had our heart set on the other ones so we just use one of our other 50 pairs, glad we moved past that archaic machine.

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    yep. if you had to go to a cobbler to get your shoes to fit, and each pair costed a month’s wages, we’d probably value a vendor who was an actual expert at the vocation.

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  • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do your stores not allow you to try on shoes?

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    • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My store is amazon so no not really and also this is better than sticking your foot in the same Condom shoe as nine other guys.

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• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A priest of footology!

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    All hail Pope Brannock!

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