Stretching Leather Boots

Femelade

I posted this earlier and it dissappeared!

Anyhoo...My boyfriend bought me lovely Knee High Leather boots in River Island, they are gorgeous but they are a little tight around my calves when zipped up! i'm afraid they might cut off the blood circulation to my feet! I was just wondering is there any way of stretching them a bit??

Leather will stretch with time though anyway, wont it?
Or will i just have to lose weight on my calves before the weekend!:eek:

convert

There's a few things you can do (apart from trying to shrink your calves in a short time) which may help:

1 - take them to a shoe repair place. A lot of them do stretching too, though I'm not sure if they'll be able to stretch the calves.

2 - the other option is to see if the repair place would be able to add in a small, fine strip of leather and attach the zip to that, thus giving an extra centimetre or 2. I've had that done with a pair of boots before and it worked out well. It's hardly noticeable.

Btw, If they're the boots I'm thinking about, they're lovely!!

Femelade

http://xml.riverisland.com/flash/content.php
the ones in the middle!
i had put my eyes on them but they were too expensive, but he surprised me with them the next day..
it would break his heart if i didnt wear them out at the weekend, cos he was really proud of himself for thinking of something so romantic..

convert

other option is to unzip the boot a little if you're sitting down, etc. if it won't be noticeable.... I've had to do it in the past.

Kintarō Hattori

Wear them around the house a little and break them in gently. If they are very soft leather they should loosen up in no time at all.

stovelid

Like he said.

If they are only slightly tight, they will stretch a little with wear anyway.

Dimitri

Dunno if this'll work on delicate wimmens boots, but i polish the old work boots which are leather to sofen em up when new, plus its stops em cracking after a few weeks of being covered in mud and washed in puddles!

taram

You can buy a leather oil that helps stretch them, you spray it on, pop the boots on, preferably sit next to a radiator to warm them and they should stretch out

Peewee_lane

I heard that apparently if you wet newspaper and scrunch it up where you want stretched and leave over night, thats supposed to work. Try it.