“You’ll grow into it,” is a phrase that echoes back long into my mind as I think of a young me standing unconvinced, swamped in a pull-over between a smiling shop assistant and a nodding parent. I don’t ever remember growing into it. Instead the item in question would just go out of fashion before it would accommodate me.

Hank Miller is obviously another who suffered the same large apparel humiliation and has come up with the idea of putting Japanese iFit technology into a product called INCHworm shoes. The shoes adjust up to one full size in half size increments…