I'd like some Chelsea boots but the ones I've tried on look misshapen at the sides

[Poetrypatty]

This is hard to explain and no pictures I'm afraid, but I've tried on a couple of pairs and they kind of bulge out at the sides above the ankle? Is that just my ankles or am I trying on the wrong ones or does anybody have advice or has noticed the same thing?

Nobody ca say if it's your ankles without a pic. Maybe get a friend to go shopping with you and they can try them on too? Then you'll know if it's the boots or not. But you'd have to pick a friend with different ankles or it wouldn't work!

Are you buying cheap boots? If the elastic is inferior perhaps it's stretched permanently just from multiple people trying them on, although it'd have to be really really awful quality for that to be the case.

Thanks OnyxOryx that's a good idea to take someone else with me to see if the same thing happens when they try them. It's the elastic bulging out at the sides- looks fine from the side but not from the front. Maybe those type of boots just aren't going to work for me.

I've got Chelsea boots (plural) and I just can't see how that would happen unless the elastic was knackered. But then I've got narrow feet, so roomy boots like Chelsea the ankle part is nowhere near me one I'm in them. Maybe if someone has wider feet it could make them bulge out? IDK.

I have never had this with Chelsea boots. Have you tried on different makes?

4 different types now Firesidefox all doing the same thing. Must be my feet/ankles. Maybe I'll just look for boots with a zip instead.