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If you are laced up and the toes are touching firmly in a new boot then it depends. How firmly? Do you like your toes touching or very close to the toe cap? If the answer is firm and no then I don't think the length is right. When the heel and ankle lining compresses with use you will get another 1mm - 2mm in length. That may just take your toes off the toe cap, it might not. What you think is firm and what I think is firm could be 2 very different things.

Try this, remove your laces from the skate. Now put the skate on, the length might feel to short (toes brushing toe cap firmly) because there are no laces to pull your heel back into the heel pocket. You are not checking for length with this, you are seeing if you can wear them comfortably for width. If your feet still hurt after 5 - 10 minutes of wearing the skate with the laces out then they are definitely too narrow for you. A stretch might be able to fix it, it depends on where the narrowness is - if it is tight all over then you are better off going up 1/2 a size to see if that fixes it or try a Nexus in that size.

That study was interesting.

No data. Just talk about feel, I went back to change the wording in the first post.

The length will improve, it's all the padding in the heel area and once it compresses a little and your heel settles into the pocket your toes will move back from the toe box. It sounds as if 7.5 is the right length. As to the rest of your foot, try this, put the skates on, don't tie them up. Do they hurt 15 minutes later? If not then it's a width issue, they are still to narrow for you when tied up. Not all is lost, you can do a couple of things. Wait till the shop opens then ask them to stretch the boot for width. Or bake them again, either at home or at the shop but this time pad the sides of your foot with something like 3mm neoprene rubber strips or gel pad strips. this will force the boot a little wider at bake time, then you remove the strips and the fit will be looser in those areas.

There was a 7/13 used in the study. Least efficient