ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Those of you who have been following since the beginning, will be aware that finding a pair of boots that a) I like b) that fit c) don’t fall apart within a few weeks, is proving difficult to say the least.
As a quick re-cap, these were the original much-loved, much-worn boots:
which were mended several times at the cobblers, but then finally gave up the ghost. So I had a look on E-bay and got these:
Which when they arrived, weren’t really what I wanted, but I heroically sucked it up and ‘made do’, but then they fell apart after about 4 weeks, and despite a visit to the cobblers, and several attempts at home repairs involving carpet glue (!) and the good old glue gun, I again admitted defeat.
I found these in a charity shop which looked brand new:
but in daylight they turned out to be a weird purple colour, so I had to dye them. This worked surprisingly well, and I have been wearing these for several months now, and they are very comfortable, and have not fallen apart-hurrah! BUT while I can just about get away with them with skinny jeans, they do look a bit odd with dresses and skirts, so all my lovely charity shop dresses have been consigned to the wardrobe for a while.
I then found a pair which fitted, and were ‘ok’ in a charity shop a few weeks ago. They weren’t that great, but by this point I was taking anything that was vaguely decent and fitted. I paid for them and was just loading them into the buggy when I saw 2 big marks where the pseudo leather had started to peel off. 😦 Luckily the charity shop gave me my money back as I hadn’t even left the shop.
I was beginning to despair. But then, having a wander around the charity shops of the lovely Devizes after visiting the Vintage Bazaar, I stumbled across ‘Elm Tree Antiques’ which had a big banner outside advertising it’s vintage clothes. I squeezed in with the buggy, and a by now fractious and bored SmallSmall…And found these:
They are real leather, and everything. I tried one on in the shop in a huge hurry as SmallSmall was really quite fed up by now. I thought at the time they were a bit tight getting them on and off, but just thought it was because in a rush and flustered.
I paid my money (£15-which I was quite chuffed with) and took them home.
And I love them.
BUT they are a NIGHTMARE to get on and off. There are no zips, and hooks inside for using old-fashioned boot pulls to pull them on with. (Frustratingly, I used to have both a pair of boot pulls and a boot puller offer thing as a result of my carefree younger days horse riding, but we sold them on E-bay a while ago.)
So, I have had to resort to a pair of wooden coat-hangers….
And for now, once they are on, they have to stay on, until hubby gets home to pull them off!!
Excellent resourceful use of household equipment! Hope they stretch a bit…
Thankyou!
I tried on a pair of boots with no zips in M&S whilst heavily pregnant – then realised that I couldn’t reach my feet to pull them off again! I had to get a shop assistant to do it for me!
Oh no! Poor you. At least they came off! I’m assuming you didn’t buy them.. You did well to even get them on if you were heavily pregnant!
actually I did buy them – I just didn’t wear them until I’d had the baby
Wise move!
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