to be annoyed that it's so much easier for women with a skinny calf to get knee high boots than a woman with a fat calf. It pisses me off

[EightToSixer]

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I've size 4 feet and medium calves. I can get some, but not all long boots done up.

But can I get ankle boots to wear with a skirt, no way.

If you have small feet, believe it or not oh shoe makers, they connect to your legs with skinny ankles. My calves widen out where the muscles start.

Please, please can someone make me some boots that don't flap about and look like the are 3 sizes too big.

I have thin calves and have the flappy welly look with most boots these days.

Was much better 10 years ago when the chunky of calf had to go boot-free and we thin calvies could waltz about in snug fitting boots to our hearts' content. Bollocks to inclusivity says I.

I've got thin ankles and skinny calves < not very stealth boast> and most boots Are too baggy at the ankles and flappy at the top. I can make the chicest of boots look like Wellies.

YABU. It's just boots. Hardly worth the emotional energy.

Me too, RedZombie.
Both my pairs of boots are donkey's years old because I can't find any others that fit so well or look so good.

Don't even get me started on my ankles. They are things of beauty. I could be an ankle model, I could. But not if I was wearing boots.

chunky calves here to! Right pain in the bum....no boots fit and high street shope that advertise wide legs never have them in stock!

I just got a lovely pair from DUO and they fit! Love them

Just found these. Might give them a look...

I've got legs like a chicken drumstick (charmingly informed of this by a "friend" at school) & got a pair of knee high boots yesterday in Sainsburys that I love. Am wearing them now and keep gazing at them in admiration.

And they've 25% off at the mo, so were only £37.50.

A good excuse for a trip to Argentina.

The boots are no wider, but the shop will take them away and stretch them for you.

Have thin calves so all knee length boots look flappy on me unless I spend shedloads on posh boots.

I have found that if you get the socks with fur at the top you can use those to hold the flappy tops of the boots in whilst getting an on trend look though.

YABU. I have skinny minnie calves. I have never ever been able to find boots to fit. I look ridiculous in them

Yabu, I have skinny calves and all boots are too big and fall down. I think shops need to bring in better boots for both.

I have chunky calves. I usually find something to fit. I am wearing fly beam at the mo. Love em. Although I think they'd be 'taller' on my leg if I had skinnier legs. I was a bit sad because I wanted the 'Elena' boots but they wouldnt zip up. Not even close.

I bought some moshulu mardi wide calf boots a couple of weeks ago. They were way too big on my calf - I was truly astonished at this phenomenon. I put them back on ebay and made a nice profit :)

Oooooh this drives me mad. I have giagantic calves and how I would LOVE to be able to wear knee high boots. I haven´t been able to since I was about 10.
Even more annoying is the fact that the boots on sale for said calves are generally awful, frumpy, man-mad, cumbersome, square-toed monstrosities. Even the ones in DUO aren´t that nice in my opinion, they do not look like the beauties I lust after on the High Street.

YABU the only boots that don't look like wellies on me are Duo boots. I bought one pair pre-DS that have lasted really well but I won't be able to afford them again.

I'm another thin legger and I can never find boots that don't gape. Boot sizes for all say I!

sashh I thought for a minute you meant the country
I actually thought "Christ has it really come to this.... Transatlantic travel in my quest for boots I can actually do up?"

I hate having big calves. It's actually soul destroying for me every time I attempt boot shopping when I try on the 50th pair and yet again they won't do up. Makes me feel like I'm some mega calved freak of nature with my weeny feet, and shop assistant can be remarkably rude about it too (got reduced to tears on one occasion and believe me that's no mean feat- except when I'm pregnant but I wasn't on that occasion)

I hate buying boots. I have substantial calves (muscular, horse riding) and long legs (though not in the "legs up to here" sense, just in the annoying long to get things to fit sense). Most boots are too short, and are therefore too wide at their widest point, and nip in too low, thus also being too narrow at the widest point of my calf. Very annoying. Buying long leather riding boots is a nightmare too. Such fun

www.duoboots.com is the answer to any long boot problem.

They are fantastic (and luckily I live near Bath so can shop in the store).

They're not the answer for me, I have one skinny little atrophied calf and one mighty and powerful 'does-all-the work' calf. I'd have to buy two pairs and my interesting 'hopalong' gait really wears out shoes/boots very fast.

So why do they call you OddBoots, OddBoots?

indeed.