What do you wear on your feet?

In summer, I tend to wear my just about to be dead gutties (trainers) that are now a year in. In wetter weather my Bareback Kentucky Storm have done right through from last year without a complaint & they're very comfy. I do have wellies for when it's really bad & they have formed insoles in as the flat soles kill.
 
poiuytrewq said:
I've lived in wellies for years. I always have sore feet.
Click to expand...
Oh gosh, no wonder you have sore feet.

This summer I gave in and have been wearing trainers- Not previously done what ever the weather as I can't stand getting bits in my shoes, but its been so warm i had too.
I just wash them constantly so its worked well, also my feet no longer hurt.
put the wellies back on yesterday in the rain and instantly achy sore feet. They were new wellies earlier this year. they feel slighty tight when i first put them on but fine after a minute. They don't feel uncomfortable as such but i can't face the thought of another winter in them for hours a time.
The trainers are obviously not even slightly water/mud proof.
They will be my most worn footware- any suggestions?
Click to expand...

My daughter bought a fabulous pair of German-made leather boots, and I really want to buy some too but I am hopeless at online stuff PLUS I haven't the confidence that they will fit, blah blah. She says, "Get a tape measure, measure your feet..." and she makes a good point. Perhaps I'll do that. I'm so good at procrastinating though. So I am still wearing my half-dead running shoes everywhere.

Actually this morning as we walked down the street coming back from our walk, a neighbour invited me in to look at her garden and she asked me what size foot I have. So I now have a nice new pair of running shoes which I plan to break in. They are a little high in the sole area, the current marketing ploy, so not my first choice but they might be very nice until I get my act together and send an order and measurements off for my boots. I love a well-fitting pair of well-made leather boots. I'm retired now but in my place of work, a nursery, I spent many a comfortable day in leather workboots.
 
If anyone does need wellies, check out warmwellies.co.uk. I bought OH some last winter and they are quite light (considering the size of his feet!) and he found them comfortable (for a welly). He is a staunch welly hater so this is a significant find. I will be trying them once I have killed my heavy aigle parcours. I don’t find them that comfy although improved with an insole, just so heavy. But I hate wet feet. I’m another who kills the lining and my tellurides ended up mega uncomfortable due to all the holes I wore through. And they leaked.
 
I've been trawling through all the footwear threads I can find hoping I'll find a type of shoe I've missed in my years of failure with shoe shopping. Like another poster I have given up and live in wellies but they are hard work to walk miles over rough ground in. I've got a horribly widened right foot which I thought for years was just some sort of bunion but apparently I (well a horse) broke bones in it and it has spreads as a result. So I need very wide walking boots - why are men given a huge choice of wide ones but not women? Have tried so many so called wide ones,no good.the nearest i got were snowdonia eee ones,which were better than some advertised as especially for wide toe area. Am I the only one? Has anyone found really wide ones that are walkable in and have ankle support?
 
Op I cannot tell you how much I understand your pains. I have had terrible feet always painful despite nice footwear always. I bought a pair of OC trainers with a wider foot bed and from that day on I haven’t had a single pain. However I can’t take them off and use them on the yard now only taking them off for long boots. I’ll be getting a second pair for best hopefully. Game changer.
 
Skechers Arch Fit trainers for the yard, but I have noticed they are rubbish in terms of grip so I need to be careful when it's slippy. I've got wellies for to and from the field when it's muddy, with insoles and heel risers, but I think I need to go a size bigger.

My feet are doomed I think. Achilles tendonitis in one, flat arches, looks like an arthritic bunion on the one without tendonitis and I over-pronate on the right foot. Anything with rigid ankles hurts. All that from an unhealthy addiction to pointy heels for most of my adult life. SIgh.
 
Jenko109 said:
I wear trainers all year round but use Sealskin socks which are waterproof.
Click to expand...
These are great I even wade the river in them 🫣
Domirati said:
I have Morton’s neuroma, only wellies I can wear are muck boots as they are wider and quite well cushioned. Only actual muck boots though, cheaper versions no good ☹️also Ariat boots half a size bigger. I was thinking the other day walking the dogs that you can get new knees and hips but bad feet you are stuffed!
Click to expand...
I'm hopefully getting mine removed 🤞🤞I am on a mission to find suitable leather riding boots though the problem I've now found is the wider toebox boots are too wide for my stirrups 🤷
 
I use walking shoes that look a lot like trainers but are waterproof and have the elastic tie thingys so no laces - I can slip them on and off easily (always in and out of the house) they are pretty water proof and very supportive.

Salomon make - not cheap but not horse prices either !
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top