Wide boots?

[coleoptera]

I've always worn wide boots and shoes and sucked up the fact that this wasn't usually an option for actual riding boots, other than my Ariat paddock boots I've had forever.  An old break in a foot and subsequent change to its conformation required it, and a recent surgery to stem those problems will demand it from now on.  But all the boots I see

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[sm923]

I have short, thick legs. I had to buy boots, have them cut down and stretched. A good cobbler can work wonders!! And it was relatively inexpensive, too!

[coleoptera]

Well, my problem is feet, not legs.

[phoenix_rose_up]

What about something like a bluntstone boot? They're fairly wide but still can be ridden in?

[coleoptera]

I should have specified that I need tall boots. I have paddock boots of a reasonable width. It's the tall boots that don't seem to be made in widest.

[serennig]

Well now I don't know how wide is wide, but what about Men's sizes? My husband's feet aren't any version of narrow, and he wears off-the-shelf tall boots. Of course right now I can't think of the brand and they aren't where I can check them -- but I'm putting this down as a placeholder comment, I should be able to check the brand later today. Whatever it is, it isn't expensive -- cheaper than Ariat.

I don't know if his are even Mens or if they were unisex labelled, because he first discovered them when he borrowed them from a woman on his show team.

[coleoptera]

I should have thought of that - my brother has incredibly narrow feet so he just shops in the women's section for his running shoes! Certainly worth a shot next time I head up to Dover, etc....

[coleoptera]

Though the real issue is that they aren't THAT wide, and it's most in one area. For the most part I've found men's shoes are REALLY a lot wider, so that's potentially going to create more problems than it solves. Still worth a shot.

[serennig]

Well, definitely worth a shot. My husband's feet are really wide, so much so we have a hard time buying him western boots. He's a EEE wide, and most western boots only go up to EE. He doesn't fit in most men's riding boots, naturally -- both in the calf and the toe.

FWIW his off-the-shelf boots are Equi Comfort men's, and Equi Comfort doesn't make men's boots anymore. But their ladies boots might be on the wide-ish side given how wide their men's were?

[coleoptera]

No, sadly like everything else I have seen, wide refers to the calf size.

[emidala]

Petrie, Cavallo and Konig make custom boots down to the very width and angle of your arches. You have to get them measured, and then they are made according to your exact details. They are expensive, but they last forever (my trainer has a pair that is entering its twenties now!).