5.5, or am I...?
Well I went and tried on my first ever pair of Superstars in JJB today to see what size I came out as.
First off I couldn't see any women's superstars so I tried on a pair of Stan Smiths in a 6. I then noticed some superstars in the kid's area and my ultimate goal was to see if I could fit into kid's ones because then I'd be able to buy twice as many

She went and got some boys size 5.5 and they were a good fit, better than the Stan Smiths. So my first question is,
do Superstars fit a bit small because they're more rigid and fitted, thus not allowing your foot to move about so much?
When I got home I decided to look at size conversions for the US and that's when I noticed US women's and US men's are different to each other, and also translate into a different size for Uk women's. And THEN I noticed there were Uk womens and Uk mens.
So my *second* questions are,
did the boys 5.5 superstars only fit me because they were men size and actually were the same size as a womens size 6? In people's experiences are Uk sizes for men and woman different?
I really need to find this out before I go and buy a pair online because I don't want to suffer from either long trainers or sore toes