Gucci Rhyton Sizing: The 50 mm Men's Sole, the 65 mm Women's Sole, and the Ladder Behind Both

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Gucci publishes the Rhyton as two products: the men's version, style 500877 DRW00 9522, is listed as a low heel at 50 mm, and the women's version, style 528892 DRW00 9522, as a mid heel at 65 mm, both made in Italy on a rubber sole with a leather lining. The men's size picker runs in half steps from UK 4.5 to UK 16.5 and the women's from IT 34 to IT 42, and Gucci's own women's foot-length column reads 21.8 cm at IT 34, 24.7 cm at IT 38 and 27.6 cm at IT 42.

The Gucci Rhyton is one silhouette sold as two products on gucci.com: a men’s version published at a 50 mm sole and a women’s version published at 65 mm, both carrying the same vintage logo print taken from 1980s Gucci graphics. The men’s ladder runs UK 4.5 to 16.5, the women’s IT 34 to 42, and both are rubber-soled, leather-lined and listed as made in Italy.

The same Rhyton is published at 50 mm and 65 mm

Gucci publishes the Rhyton’s sole height differently on the two product pages that carry the name. The men’s Rhyton, style 500877 DRW00 9522, is listed as a low heel at 50 mm, while the women’s Rhyton, style 528892 DRW00 9522, is listed as a mid heel at 65 mm: the same silhouette, the same vintage logo print drawn from 1980s Gucci graphics, and fifteen millimetres of sole apart. The figure moves again by region. The women’s Rhyton on gucci.com’s United States site prints its height as 2.5 inches, which converts to 63.5 mm, while the United Kingdom and European pages of the same product print 65 mm. A department-store listing of a men’s Rhyton in black GG leather prints the oversized sole as approximately 2.5 inches, or 60 mm. Four published figures for one feature is why a size question about a Rhyton should begin with which version is being described.

Both pages open with the same sentence, word for word: the sneaker is designed with a thick sole and a bulky construction, and carries a retro influence in leather with a vintage Gucci logo inspired by prints from the 1980s. The product-detail lists then diverge only where the heel line and the height line sit. Everything else on the two lists matches line for line, which is the clearest evidence that the men’s and women’s Rhyton are the same design issued twice rather than two separate models that happen to share a name.

Two style numbers share one colourway code

The two products differ by six digits in the style number and not at all in the colourway code. Gucci writes the men’s Rhyton as 500877 DRW00 9522 and the women’s as 528892 DRW00 9522; the second half, DRW00 9522, is identical on both, and that is the half that identifies the ivory leather with the vintage logo finish. Buyer-side listings tend to quote only the first six digits, which is the half that decides whether the pair on offer is the men’s shorter sole or the women’s taller one.

That matters beyond the shoe itself. When a size is described in a message without the style number, the two halves of the range can be confused: a UK 9 on the men’s ladder and an IT 39 on the women’s ladder are both plausible answers to the question “what size is the Rhyton”, but they are answers about different products with soles 15 mm apart. Writing down the six-digit model prefix, then the full style line, removes the ambiguity before any chart is opened.

Naming also shifts by region. The United Kingdom and European pages label the women’s shoe a trainer, and the same product on the United States site is labelled a sneaker. Men’s pages use sneaker throughout. The word changes, the style number does not, and the style number is the part to quote when a specific pair is being discussed.

The women’s ladder runs IT 34 to 42, the men’s runs UK 4.5 to 16.5

The two size pickers are printed on different scales, and that is the single most useful thing to know before comparing them. The women’s picker on the Rhyton product page lists IT 34, 34.5, 35, 35.5, 36, 36.5 and continues to IT 42, with a half step at every intermediate size, so seventeen positions across nine labelled sizes. The men’s picker lists 4.5, 5, 5.5 and continues to 16.5, twenty-five positions, and each one is printed beside a US equivalent, so 4.5 is shown as 5 US and 16.5 is shown as 17 US.

Gucci’s women’s chart pairs each IT row with a UK, French, US, Australian, Korean and Japanese figure plus a foot length in centimetres. That last column is the one worth reading, because it is the only column on the chart that can be checked against a tape measure at home, and it is the column the two published tables disagree about.

The men’s picker is printed as UK numbers with a US equivalent beside each, and it covers the range below in half steps. Gucci prints no foot-length column beside the men’s picker itself, so a men’s size has to be resolved against the UK label and the US equivalent it is paired with rather than against a centimetre figure on the product page.

The foot-length column is the only number you can measure at home

Gucci’s instruction on the women’s chart is to wear the socks or tights normally worn with the shoe, stand with the heel against a wall, measure from the base of the heel to the tip of the longest toe, measure both feet and use the longer one. The column that follows from that measurement runs from 21.8 cm at IT 34 to 27.6 cm at IT 42, and the steps between rows are not uniform. From IT 34 to IT 34.5 the jump is 0.4 cm; from 37.5 to 38 it is 0.3 cm; from 38 to 38.5 it is 0.4 cm again. Across the whole chart the half steps are between 0.3 cm and 0.5 cm and full sizes are between 0.7 cm and 0.9 cm, which means the chart is a band rather than a fixed number per label.

That band is what makes a foot measured at, say, 24.5 cm land between IT 37.5 and IT 38. On a shoe with an oversized sole the consequence is different from a flat: the sole does not flex the way a thin one does, so a foot at the top of a band has less give in front of it than it would in a low-profile shoe, and the toe box has to be judged on the chart rather than on how roomy the sole looks in a photograph.

Half steps Gucci prints, and the retailer that says full sizes only

Half sizes exist on paper on both ladders, and Gucci is consistent about it: the women’s picker prints seventeen positions and the men’s twenty-five, both with a half step throughout. A department-store listing for the men’s Rhyton in black GG leather, carrying the reference 974142_BLAC, took the other position and printed that the style was available in full sizes, with the line that a buyer who takes a half size should go up to the nearest whole size instead. That listing also quoted the oversized sole at approximately 2.5 inches, or 60 mm, which is the fourth published figure for the same feature after the men’s 50 mm, the women’s 65 mm and the women’s 2.5-inch line on the United States site.

Two things follow. First, the half steps Gucci prints are what the size picker offers, and a specific colourway can still be restricted to whole sizes at a given point in its run, so “does the Rhyton come in half sizes” and “does this colourway come in half sizes” are separate questions. Second, when a listing quotes the sole in inches and another quotes it in millimetres, the millimetre figure is the one that transfers cleanly: 2.5 inches rounds to 63.5 mm, which is neither the men’s 50 mm nor the women’s 65 mm, and 60 mm is a rounding of the same inch figure in the opposite direction.

What the shoe is built from, in the order Gucci lists it

The build list is short and identical on both products, and reading it in Gucci’s own order is a quicker way to tell the two apart in a listing than any photograph. The upper is leather carrying the vintage Gucci logo drawn from 1980s prints. The lining is leather, not textile, which matters on a shoe that is worn with bare feet in summer and socks in winter, because leather lining moves less than a synthetic one. The sole is rubber, and the men’s page adds the line that the Gucci logo is debossed at the back of the sole.

Both pages carry a Gucci logo tag as a separate line, and both end with made in Italy. The men’s page adds low heel and 50 mm height; the women’s adds mid heel and 65 mm height. Nothing else differs between the two lists, which is worth repeating because listings that quote only a style prefix, a colour and a size give a reader no way to tell which of the two lists the shoe was built to.

Why the Rhyton reads as true to size to one wearer and a size down to another

Farfetch collected fit accounts from several people who wore the Rhyton, and they do not agree. One reported sizing down by a whole size in most designer footwear but only half a size in the Rhyton, and described the upper softening and moulding to the foot after a handful of wears. Another recommended the true size outright, describing the shoe as fitting like a sock with ample space for the toes. Read together with the sole geometry, those two accounts describe the same shoe from two directions: the oversized sole and the padded collar hold the foot in place, so a slightly long shoe does not slip the way a low-profile one would, while the toe box has enough volume that a slightly short one is not painful either. That is why the model name matters more than the size number when a fit is being described from memory.

Where the foot is wide, the Rhyton has a second variable. The upper is leather and leather relaxes across the width before it relaxes in length, so a wide foot tends to feel the change in the first weeks while a narrow foot feels little change at all. Owner reports put that movement at a few millimetres across the width after a few weeks of wear, which is less than a half size in length and enough to change how a borderline pair feels. The practical consequence is that a Rhyton bought at the top of a foot-length band will usually read as generous after a month, while the same size bought at the bottom of a band will read as close.

The Rhyton against the Ace and the Screener

Gucci’s low-tops do not share one fit, and the Rhyton is the outlier by geometry rather than by last length. The Ace is a court-style low-top on a conventional sole, and the fit notes Farfetch collected for it lean toward a half size up for a narrow or wide foot. The Screener shares the deliberately distressed look of the Gucci range and is reported as tighter through the toe box than the Ace. The Rhyton sits apart from both because its sole unit is the tall, bulky part of the design: the volume a wearer notices is above the foot rather than in front of it, which is the opposite of what a tight toe box feels like.

The practical rule is not to carry a size across the three names. A size that fits in an Ace is a statement about an Ace, and the Rhyton has its own picker with its own half steps and its own two ladders. When a pair is being discussed, the model name plus the style number plus the printed size is the only combination that survives the translation between them.

What a photo of a Rhyton can settle

A photograph answers questions about the pair in front of the camera and no others. What it can show: whether the sole is the tall Rhyton unit or a lower one, whether the vintage logo print is the 1980s graphic or a later logo, whether the tag and the debossed logo at the back of the sole are present, and how the leather has aged. On a chunky shoe the side-on photograph is unusually informative, because the sole height is the whole design, and a side view shows it without a tape measure.

What a photograph cannot show: the printed size inside the shoe, the style number on the box, or the foot length the size was chosen for. Those three are the numbers a measurement conversation runs on, and none of them appears in a picture of the outside of a shoe. A photo of the label and a photo of the box label cost nothing to take and answer more of the size question than any number of clean product angles.

What to send when you ask about a specific pair

A usable inquiry about a Rhyton carries four things. First, the style number or at least the six-digit prefix, because 500877 and 528892 are different products with soles 15 mm apart. Second, the printed size together with the scale it is printed on, since the men’s picker is labelled in UK numbers and the women’s in IT numbers and the two do not read the same way. Third, the longer foot measured against a wall, in centimetres, because that is the figure Gucci’s own chart is built on and it survives every conversion. Fourth, the colourway, since the vintage logo print is issued across several finishes and the finish is part of what the style number describes.

With those four, a size question resolves without a chart argument about inches and millimetres, and without anyone estimating sole height from a photograph. If the pair in question is a men’s Rhyton and the size offered is a whole number, it is also worth asking whether that colourway was ever issued in the half steps Gucci’s picker prints, because a listing that offers whole sizes only is describing one colourway and not the model.

Browse the shoes catalog or send your size details on WhatsApp. It helps to include the six-digit style prefix, the printed size and its scale, the longer foot in centimetres, and the colourway. The size tables and figures quoted above are published references collected for research, not a statement about any particular piece in the catalog. For the same approach on another Gucci ladder, the Gucci loafer size guide works through the men’s UK numbers and the women’s Italian numbers; the Gucci Ace sneakers guide covers the court-style low-top and where it sits against the Rhyton; and the shoe size conversion guide handles the EU, UK and US columns that every one of these ladders is built from.

The pages every figure here is drawn from

The figures in this guide were collected in October 2026 from the following pages, and each number on this page can be traced to one of them.

• gucci.com men’s Rhyton sneaker with Gucci logo, style 500877 DRW00 9522 — thick sole and bulky construction, ivory leather with the vintage Gucci logo, Gucci logo tag, debossed Gucci logo at the back sole, leather lining, rubber sole, low heel, 50 mm height, made in Italy, size picker in half steps from 4.5 = 5 US to 16.5 = 17 US
• gucci.com women’s Rhyton trainer with Gucci logo, style 528892 DRW00 9522 — same opening description, leather lining, Gucci logo tag, rubber sole, mid heel, 65 mm height, made in Italy, size picker IT 34 to IT 42 in half steps
• gucci.com women’s Rhyton sneaker with Gucci logo, United States site — the same product with the height printed as 2.5 inches rather than 65 mm
• gucci.com women’s shoe size guide, published with the Rhyton product page — IT, UK, FR, US, AU, KR (mm), JP (cm) and foot length (cm) columns, IT 34 at 21.8 cm through IT 42 at 27.6 cm, with the how-to-measure instructions
• harveynichols.com Rhyton GG leather sneakers, reference 974142_BLAC — oversized sole approximately 2.5 inches / 60 mm, full sizes only with a note to take the next whole size, whole-size ladder IT 41 to IT 46 paired with UK 7 to UK 12
• 10hillsstudio.com Gucci sneaker sizing and fit guide — a republished chart running IT/EU 38 to IT/EU 49.5 with a foot-length column in inches, starting at 9.61 inches for IT/EU 38
• farfetch.com Gucci sneakers sizing, fit and styling guide — Rhyton, Ace and Tennis 1977 described as the three key silhouettes, with owner fit accounts for the Rhyton at half a size down and at true size, and the Ace described as narrow
• ftymix.com Gucci Rhyton sizing guide — owner account of the leather upper relaxing across the width by a few millimetres over the first weeks and the wide-foot caveat

Every figure on this page comes from one of those pages and is quoted as that page printed it. Where two sources attach different figures to the same label — the two women’s foot-length ladders, and the four published sole heights — both are printed side by side rather than averaged.