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I really was going to try and not spend money on yet another pair of winter boots. But when my feet literally started cramping<\/a> in the old ones, I grit my teeth and started looking for barefoot winter boots, expecting it to be a painful, drawn-out process<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m picky. I wear skirts and dresses so I want tallish boots; I like my footwear to look elegant rather than sporty or space-agey (although I’ve been known to make exceptions<\/a>); I’ve got thick calves so I need lacing and not just a zipper.<\/p>\n To my very pleasant surprise, I managed to find a pair that I’m happy with already on my second attempt.<\/p>\n The first pair looked like clown shoes on my feet. Literal centimetres of space left over on each side of the front of the foot. When I buy mainstream shoes – although I guess I’m now at “when I used to buy mainstream shoes” – I always asked for the widest model they had. With barefoot shoes, as I have now learned, I should definitely not do that. There are shoes for way<\/b> wider feet than mine.<\/p>\n The second pair are lovely. Nice colour, soft soles, natural materials, lightweight. They weigh about 60% as much as my old ones.<\/p>\n With mainstream footwear, I used to be happy if the shoes didn’t straight-up hurt my feet. But it was always a relief to take them off. When I put these on, I felt like I could just keep them on around the house all day, because why not?<\/p>\n This was a very international experience. Free movement of goods FTW! There are a few web shops in Sweden for barefoot shoes, but there’s not a lot to choose from. The first pair I ordered from the Czech Republic; these came from bLifestyle<\/a> in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I really was going to try and not spend money on yet another pair of winter boots. But when my feet literally started cramping in the old ones, I grit my teeth and started looking for barefoot winter boots, expecting it to be a painful, drawn-out process. I’m picky. I wear skirts and dresses so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20084"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20089,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20084\/revisions\/20089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3616_boot_2.jpg\")
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