Does anyone have any tips for fat ankles?

[Puddinandpie]

Hi everyone so I have just bought the most gorgeous pair of platform sandals in both colours available, with thick ankle straps but neither colour fits my bloody cankles, I am livid!
They fit everywhere else on my fat feet perfectly and sods law they are soooooo comfy like you wouldn't believe! Does anyone have any tips/tricks to make straps fit larger ankles???
I know I'm asking the impossible 🙈
But any help would be much appreciated!

What kind of straps? Do they have a buckle or Velcro or are they stretchy?

There quite thick with buckles I'll do a picture!

Here's is pics 1

Here is pic 2

Can you punch another hole in the ankle strap. It looks like there is room.

Is there enough in them to get a hole punched a bit further back? I popped into a she menders a few years back and they punched an extra hole

**shoe menders!

That's the first thing I thought but that wouldn't work because it still wouldn't be enough material to buckle up! I tried googling ankle strap extenders but nothing came up, how has no one invented this!!

If it was me and I really loved them and had nothing to lose I'd try removing the buckle parts, punching a hole in each side, and fastening them with either thick black elastic or a ribbon in the same colour, whatever one looked least worse.