There are wide calf boots and then there are extra wide calf boots. If you have hams like mine, you need the extra wide sizes you can find from our advertisers. These people are like you and me; fashion conscious boot lovers with big calves. All styles of boots from ankle boots with a bit more ankle to knee high and even thigh high boots, all extra wide fittings. Leather, suede, buckled, zippered or just plain pull ons, if it is extra wide then you will find it here.
Extra wide calf boots are becoming more readily available, both online and in regular stores. The reasons for this would have to include the greater demand for extra wide calf boot sizes, the ‘growth’ in the population and the change in societal thinking that now more readily accepts more of us have wider calves.
For many years women would simply accept that if they were beyond the range of sizes catered for by mainstream manufacturers they had to either be frumpy and unfashionable or they found their own boot maker, dress maker and so forth. That ‘custom’ approach was obviously more expensive than buying off the rack articles. As many of the customers for these extra wide calf boots were already spending most of their income on food, they needed to be able to buy boots at more affordable prices.
The other factor extra wide calf boots are more readily available, the ‘growth’ in population, has two facets. First of all the growth in population numbers and secondly the growth in the average size of each member of the population. Diet changes, work habit changes and so forth all have contributed to an ever growing populace. Consequently savvy manufacturers have realized they need to cater for this new paradigm with extra wide calf boots amongst other things.
All of which has brought about changes in society and the way we, who make up society, think. We no longer look down our noses at extra wide sized people, well not openly. While there is still discrimination and some derision about plus sized people, it is very much kept behind the scenes and rarely is the sniggering done openly.
Regardless of all of this, the reality remains we with the wide and extra wide calves do love our boots and someone will make them for us to buy, wear and enjoy.
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