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kay wrote:


Don't despair - good quality leather boots are still being made, and
they are lighter nowadays than they used to be.

Unfortunately, traditional wide fittings haven't been made in many
decades, and the situation is worse now than it ever has been. The
point there is that there used to be boots with a normal width heel,
and the maximum width at the toes. No more :-(

However, almost everyone in the UK has feet that have been distorted
by wearing hard (often narrow) shoes since early childhood. It's
typically only those who were brought up in the topics who haven't,
and not all of those - even in that subset, it is the people with
the widest feet that have the worst trouble.

Work boots are usually better than walking boots, but normally come
with steel toecaps, and the ranges of even those are becoming more
restricted.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.