Knee high boots for wider legs?

[Johnny Canuck3]

Possibly but now maybe you understand why people are bemoaning the boots thing........


where do the manufacturers get their measurements if they are too tight round the leg for even very slim girls ?

I just mucked about on google for a bit, and I found some boots for the large-calved girl. Maybe you just have to get your boots online.

 

[mentalchik]

I just mucked about on google for a bit, and I found some boots for the large-calved girl. Maybe you just have to get your boots online.

(looks at her bedroom full of boots)

don't think i can justify any more boot buying at the mo......


Actually after saying all that i haven't had such a problem recently...maybe the manufacturers are getting better or it's more the high heeled skin tight variety ?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

(looks at her bedroom full of boots)

don't think i can justify any more boot buying at the mo......


Actually after saying all that i haven't had such a problem recently...maybe the manufacturers are getting better or it's more the high heeled skin tight variety ?

I can see you as a booted woman.

 

[mentalchik]

I can see you as a booted woman.

My favs (which are now almost dead) are tan suede lace up fringed types......


but i have replaced them with 2 pairs from ebay.. i love suede !


I do have some girly shoes but i have to do a lot of walking so need comfy things !


(thinks fondly back to her youth and the metal days of cowboy boots)

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

My favs (which are now almost dead) are tan suede lace up fringed types......
)

 

[mentalchik]

Why ?


Kinda like these, but with lacing up the front and no tassle....

 

[Geri]

But can a person who is generally a size six still have big calves? Maybe they're marathoners or something.

I dunno about a six 6, but I've always had fairly chunky calves, even when I was a lot slimmer than I am now.

I think it's down to years of cycling.

 

[upinsmoke]

I always had problems with boots, dancing and gymnastics as a child meant i was slim yet had big calves, the muscles seem to have wasted away though these last couple of years so i no longer struggle, even really skinny women can have problems with some styles of knee high boots.
I try to get ones with stretch so i can wear them over jeans or on their own.

 

[madamv]

I got mine form Viva La Diva... Had to try on a couple of pairs before finding the right ones.

JC2 - Not all women who want wider calved boots will wear them with short skirts. And anyway, I bet she felt fabulous, and didnt give a flying fig for what anyone else thought.

My 5 yr old has some patent boots I bought her from ebay - originally Zara. When I first got them for her, they barely did up around her calves. She is small, not skinny, but certainly no chubba. Its really irritating that the style bollocks even applies to childrens boots.

 

[cyberfairy]

I got mine form Viva La Diva... Had to try on a couple of pairs before finding the right ones.

JC2 - Not all women who want wider calved boots will wear them with short skirts. And anyway, I bet she felt fabulous, and didnt give a flying fig for what anyone else thought.

My 5 yr old has some patent boots I bought her from ebay - originally Zara. When I first got them for her, they barely did up around her calves. She is small, not skinny, but certainly no chubba. Its really irritating that the style bollocks even applies to childrens boots.

Indeed. I love knee high boots and they go with pretty much everything. My old faves have died and like Thora said, many in the shops are ridiculously skinny fitting which is not comfy.
And to JC2-next time I want my body and style critisised, I will ask thank you very much. Maybe stop being pointlessly rude on threads that have no relevance or interest to you?
You are the first person to ever go on my ignore list

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

I don't understand why boots are so slim-fitting. I'm really not fat, but maybe I do have chubby little legs - half the boots I try are too tight though

I have the same problems. I have relatively large calves from exercising/being on my feet all day and Im short
Only clarkes boots with a little bit of elastic in the seam fit me. Ive had the same pair for 4 years!

 

[pinkmonkey]

I don't understand why boots are so slim-fitting. I'm really not fat, but maybe I do have chubby little legs - half the boots I try are too tight though

Most of the factories I work with have used the same leg block for years, they can be very reluctant to change it - the way they see it is as long as they are getting orders why should they change it. I've asked in factories before if they can change the leg block and they've just refused. Could be v. v. expensive too, they'd have chuck away lots of knives (like pastry cutters - up to 4 knives costing £20-£30 each for one boot leg, times two for a size, times that by four or more for a size run). It's also the country where they manufacture. The girl they fit samples on is usually a size four (they grade patterns up from a size four), therefore she'll be tiny, especially because the factory will be in Spain, or China, or somewhere like that.
Clarks I can understand will fit better, they are renowned for knowing how to fit boots and shoes and they'll kick up a proper stink until it's done. Yes it's a bummer but it's no surprise that the likes of Duo are doing really well. Factories will do a reasonable job when it comes to making the right fitting no the foot for the country where they'll be selling but it never seems to go as far as altering the legs.

 

[cyberfairy]

Most of the factories I work with have used the same leg block for years, they can be very reluctant to change it - the way they see it is as long as they are getting orders why should they change it. I've asked in factories before if they can change the leg block and they've just refused. Could be v. v. expensive too, they'd have chuck away lots of knives (like pastry cutters - up to 4 knives costing £20-£30 each for one boot leg, times two for a size, times that by four or more for a size run). It's also the country where they manufacture. The girl they fit samples on is usually a size four (they grade patterns up from a size four), therefore she'll be tiny, especially because the factory will be in Spain, or China, or somewhere like that.
Clarks I can understand will fit better, they are renowned for knowing how to fit boots and shoes and they'll kick up a proper stink until it's done. Yes it's a bummer but it's no surprise that the likes of Duo are doing really well. Factories will do a reasonable job when it comes to making the right fitting no the foot for the country where they'll be selling but it never seems to go as far as altering the legs.

Makes sence does that.Cheers
I have always had quite wide legs even when a size six, due to I suspect wearing enormous paraboots for years in my teens
I am sulking as all the boots and bootmakers so far mentioned are so damn boring! Want something a bit funky and with a platform, not sensibleness. Still have my Ugg boots but have the opposite problem with them in that they slide off my legs when I walk and have gone all slumpy and make me walk like a duck.

 

[butterfly child]

I've made enquiries into made to measure boots, and have been quoted around £800. I had some shoes made to measure and they were £400, so seems about right for boots.

Would love something really funky, but am limited to a degree by not being able to wear heels of any height.

 

[cyberfairy]

I've made enquiries into made to measure boots, and have been quoted around £800. I had some shoes made to measure and they were £400, so seems about right for boots.

Would love something really funky, but am limited to a degree by not being able to wear heels of any height.

I am limited by a budget of about a hundred quid I can see why people are happy to spend a lot on something they are comfortable in for eight hours a day and have prob spent that much cash on about sixty pairs of trashy boots that don't last. Then again, my last boots from Camden market were sixty quid, lasted ten years of festivals and day to day wear and fit perfectly. Cannot find a replica though Bought a pair of boots that cost seventy quid and the heel broke within two months-that seems to be expected nowadays though

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

I am a size ten and will wear what the hell I like thankyou very much
Everyone else, cheers for advice

quite, same here, it doesnt mean I can get them to fit my calves. Alot of women who exercise or spend all day on their feet wont have skinny calves ( muscles, when exercised grow)
but even if I was a size 20 why the hell shouldnt i buy myself a pair of nice knee high boots?

 

[butterfly child]

Strikes me that if a certain poster thinks people can wear what they like, he shouldn't be criticising people when they do...

I'll wear what I like, don't care what people think.

I'd love to own a pair of knee high lace up black leather boots........

 

[Maurice Picarda]

This jeans in boots thing. It's ubiquitous. Why is every woman in London suddenly dressing like a 1980s Eastern Bloc hard-currency prostitute?

 

[cyberfairy]

Strikes me that if a certain poster thinks people can wear what they like, he shouldn't be criticising people when they do...

I'll wear what I like, don't care what people think.

I'd love to own a pair of knee high lace up black leather boots........

On a certain posters way of thinking, anyone not a size six should not leave the house incase they offend someone's eyes

 

[spanglechick]

This jeans in boots thing. It's ubiquitous. Why is every woman in London suddenly dressing like a 1980s Eastern Bloc hard-currency prostitute?

i noticed it even more in paris

 

[cyberfairy]

i noticed it even more in paris

Tis showing off. Not only can you get your calves in boots but also fucking jeans

 

[gaijingirl]

The calves thing is really wierd. When I went to Duo to try boots on - it was 'cos I assumed my calves were too big. Actually whilst I was correct in thinking they were not standard size it turned out they were too small for regular boots. (only just though and I was dead surprised given all my cycling)... Duo does made to measure calf sizes because it seems that almost no one fits the "standard" size - we're almost all too big or too small and it has sod all to do with the rest of your body - as the ballerina I met in Evans would attest to!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Indeed. I love knee high boots and they go with pretty much everything. My old faves have died and like Thora said, many in the shops are ridiculously skinny fitting which is not comfy.
And to JC2-next time I want my body and style critisised, I will ask thank you very much. Maybe stop being pointlessly rude on threads that have no relevance or interest to you?
You are the first person to ever go on my ignore list

I guess I should have learned by now not to comment on fashion to women.

Just think: she's not put me on ignore through all these years of my pro-war rantings, etc, but a comment about boots and big calves, and wham: straight into limbo.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

And for the record: I still think that certain fashions aren't complementary to certain body types.

I'm fairly tall. I find that very tight fitting clothes, especially trousers, emphasize that fact in an unflattering way, so I usually go with more loose fitting ones. I'm not really offended or self conscious of the fact that I can't wear tight jeans; that's just how it is.

pps: those patent leather boots on those big calves, were like black beacons, even from across a busy street.

 

[tangerinedream]

I guess I should have learned by now not to comment on fashion to women.

Just think: she's not put me on ignore through all these years of my pro-war rantings, etc, but a comment about boots and big calves, and wham: straight into limbo.

normal calves, small boots...

Pro war body facist...

huh.

 

[madamv]

pps: those patent leather boots on those big calves, were like black beacons, even from across a busy street.

Thats cause you wanted to lick them innit, you dirty boy

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Thats cause you wanted to lick them innit, you dirty boy

No. Somehow you just knew, if you pulled those boots off, you'd be hit in the face with a foul odour.

 

[spanglechick]

oh no - pinkmonkey! I that's a very good site! *nurses poor, abused switch card*

how disappointing - got an email from Plusinboots today saying they were out of stock after all. I'd try another size (often wear a four in boots) but i couldn't bear another two day delay where i thought they were on their way.

 

[pinkmonkey]

Just shows the high demand doesn't it? Theres no where near enough supply for the amount of people wanting to buy this kind of thing.

 

[moose]

Cyberfairy - having briefly glanced at your feet in a pub once, I can see that there's going to be nothing at Duo, or similar, that's to your taste Surely some of the shops whch sell big platforms must do lace-ups, which should be more expandable for your legs?