Elle Magazine Italy, September 2009
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Britany is all leather, slightly platformed and comes well over the knee and up the thigh, where as
Billy is made from synthetic polyurethane, little to no platform and comes just over the knee.
Both have an ankle zip on the inner side and a not too scary stiletto heel. Both are very lovely and quite reasonably priced, BUT and this is a rather important but, NEITHER of them fit a woman's thigh. Which kind of defeats the point of them being thigh boots doesn't it?
Of course, by a 'womanly thigh' we mean Fanny's which are a rather lovely creamy pair of curvy size 10-12 pins. Hardly huge by any means. But as Robin kneeled on the Topshop shoe section floor and squeezed Fanny into them, the affect was more like a strapped-ham-slapper-central rather than anything enticing. They created a rather awful pinched thigh effect, like they would cut off the blood circulation within an hour of wear, and thus were quickly discarded. What a shame as the Britany pair were rather pretty, but as we saw in the window display on our way out, Topshop obviously think a woman's thigh isn't much bigger than a skinny arm, as the boots were ridiculously roomy on the mannequin.
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Next up was the lovely Pied a Terre's Rockford boots, which are much pricer but beautifully constructed pair of pretty pretties.
They definitely made their way up Fanny's thigh's without too much tornique effect but without any type of ankle zipper their ease-on-up cut meant they eased back down pretty quickly, giving a rather unflattering baggy ankle look. Again, what a shame.
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The seriously killer stilletto heel and dubious decoration made Fanny not that excited about trying them on sadly but at least with their fitted long zip they appeared to be appropriate for the female form they were attempting to encase, so well done KG. Now if only they made a pair with a heel less likely to snap off on a drunken night out, our hunt would be over....
Oh well, stay tuned
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