Field Boots with Zipper - any way to make calves wider without alteration?

[SuckerForHorses]

I know I’m not articulating well here.

I have a pair of field boots with the zipper up the back. They are a bit too tight, as in, I can just barely get them zipped, but then I feel like I have a rubberband around my calf and my feet feel like they are falling asleep.

Is there a way to zip in like a piece of elastic? You know, to make them wider without having to actually alter them?

I’m not sure that stretching them would stretch them enough.

[ybiaw]

I’m not sure it exists but that’s a great idea - elastic calf extender panels that you zip onto your existing zipper to add maybe 1/2" to the width of your boot. Brilliant! Patent that before I do.

[SuckerForHorses]

[QUOTE=ybiaw;7547314]
I’m not sure it exists but that’s a great idea - elastic calf extender panels that you zip onto your existing zipper to add maybe 1/2" to the width of your boot. Brilliant! Patent that before I do. :)[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that’s basically what I’m looking for! A piece of elastic with a zipper headed in each direction on either side, that can be zipped right into place?

[ybiaw]

[QUOTE=SuckerForHorses;7547317]
Yeah, that’s basically what I’m looking for! A piece of elastic with a zipper headed in each direction on either side, that can be zipped right into place?[/QUOTE]

Yup, that’s what I’m seeing in my mind.

Want to go into business together?

[SuckerForHorses]

[QUOTE=ybiaw;7547318]
Yup, that’s what I’m seeing in my mind.

Want to go into business together?[/QUOTE]

Sounds like a plan!

[Dubarry]

This has really helped me.

https://www.smartpakequine.com/der-dau-boot-stretch-8999p

[alexis_liberty]

For western chaps they make these things out of neoprene that zips in to your chaps zipper so that you can have them a little wider like around thighs and calves. You can get them from 1-2 inches! Why don’t they make these for zip up boots…

[ybiaw]

[QUOTE=alexis_liberty;7547441]
For western chaps they make these things out of neoprene that zips in to your chaps zipper so that you can have them a little wider like around thighs and calves. You can get them from 1-2 inches! Why don’t they make these for zip up boots…[/QUOTE]

Go into business with us. We need investors.

[molly8it]

[QUOTE=alexis_liberty;7547441]
For western chaps they make these things out of neoprene that zips in to your chaps zipper so that you can have them a little wider like around thighs and calves. You can get them from 1-2 inches! Why don’t they make these for zip up boots…[/QUOTE]

I actually got these back in my dark days of showing Western Pleasure. The woman I got them from was really great and I bet she could make some for you.

I’m pretty sure this is her (I can’t find any of the old order or contact info):
http://www.chapinserts.com/contact.html

[alexis_liberty]

[QUOTE=molly8it;7547605]
I actually got these back in my dark days of showing Western Pleasure. The woman I got them from was really great and I bet she could make some for you.

I’m pretty sure this is her (I can’t find any of the old order or contact info):
http://www.chapinserts.com/contact.html[/QUOTE]

Yeah! Her’s looks nice. I would try contacting her.

@ybiaw;7547505

Go into business with us. We need investors.

I don’t know how much investing with money I can do. But I could invest time!

[Pennywell_Bay]

[QUOTE=ybiaw;7547505]
Go into business with us. We need investors.[/QUOTE]

Im in ( with my fat calves…)

[alexis_liberty]

[QUOTE=Pennywell Bay;7548599]
Im in ( with my fat calves…)[/QUOTE]

I know so many riders with “wider” calves and all I can ever find are tall boots with wide calves that are like 15 or 15 ½… Sorry but those aren’t wide. Wide is like 16…