English Riding Boots?

[welsummerchicks]

Now that zippers are popular, you see people walking round with them unzipped, and even, when it's really hot, with britches legs turned up and boots unzipped and turned down, looking sort of like a drunk Puss N Boots.

I saw someone coaching like that, and falling over their unzipped boot legs, LOL. Some of them have a little snap at the top so you can unzip them, vent yourself and keep the boot legs from falling all over.

The taking the boots off thing used to wind up with some pretty impractical shoes, for a while it was the 'Dansko clogs' but I think after a few broken ankles those tended to fade into obscurity except for at the restaurant or bar after.

I worked with one guy who wore those little black Chinese slippers, another one who wore some ballet slippers, ROF, and people REALLY wondered about that. HOW he never got a toe turned into a flat pizza by a horse's hoof, beyond me. It's basically like being barefoot. Maybe he was just really nimble...

 

[Betsy410]

You can get zippers put in them. I know friends who have done that. Also try wearing nylon socks (trouser socks) and the boots should slide on easier. I never turn down a free pair of boots either and I have 2 pair that need adjusting in my closet!

Betsy

 

[Equus5O]

My field boots were extremely tight, and difficult to get on and off. I wore knee high nylons rather than socks, and sprayed inside the boot with silicone spray. Both were a huge help getting the boots on. Getting them off was another story. I would sit in a chair. My mother would stand in front of me, back to me. She would take the foot with the boot to be removed in her hands, between her legs. My other boot would be jammed against her butt. She'd pull. I'd push. Getting my boots off after showing during the heat of August wore me out more than the show itself! It probably had to do with laughing so hard every time we took my boots off. I soooo wish I had pictures of my mother helping me take my boots off!

 

[TMNTCkins]

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That's exactly how I have to take my daughter's boots off. So Funny....

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

That's how DBF had to help me get them off! We both got exhausted (after being in the August heat...) and started laughing. Until my foot got wedged in the boot in an awkward position and it felt like the boot was cutting off circulation. Then we pulled/pushed with everything we had.

OH! Just a small word of advice...
Shave your legs BEFORE putting those boots on...the leather/sweat will pull that hair out ASAP and burn for hours afterwards...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I can't help you with how they should fit, but I can say that if they hurt, they do not fit. Different brands of regular shoes can fit differently, so I cannot imagine that they necessarily are the correct size just becasue the number matches what you usually wear.

As someone who needed bunion surgery largely for wearing shoes that were too small, you do NOT want to wear shoes or boots that do not fit. Free is not free if it leads to expensive and painful surgery somewhere down the road.