Lady's Tartan Wellington Boots

[Brave Andrew]

As Billy Connolly sings, If it wisnae fur Wellies were would ye be?

[O'Callaghan]

My problem with "unisex" shoes/boots is twofold. First they are generally narrower than men's for the same length. Second, very few are made in women's sizes above 12 (US). I wear a men's 13E

Bought a pair of dancing gillies, size 15, and had to stretch the bejabbers out of them to get them to fit. Fortunately one can do that to thin, soft leather (goatskin, I would guess).

Well, I'm not trying to say that I'd want to wear much on the ladies' side of the shoe department, but I have bought ladies' shoes in plain canvas when they didn't have any men's ones. I like to wear those in the summer to keep my feet cool, and in many places all you can find on the men's side are something designed for running in or playing sports. I hope that's not considered cross-dressing, LOL! Although I should worry about that when I'm sitting here in a kilt writing this! The ladies are never shy about getting things from the men's department anyway.

You do have to allow for shoe sizes being slightly different, but my shoe size is in the single digits, so I could wear ladies' tartan wellies if I really wanted to. The truth is I don't ever wear wellies anyway. I haven't done since I was in primary school. We had to wear shorts even in winter, and I walked to school even in the snow. In bad weather I wore wellies and changed into shoes at school, but the snow always seemed to be deeper than my wellies, and then the snow melted in my boots and soaked my socks. Happy days!