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sleek:
Just broke down and bought me a much needed pair of leather work boots. Brand name is Cody James. I wear a size 10 tennis shoe  and bough the same size boot. I tried on a 9.5 but it felt like it was crushing my metatarsal bones even though they fit length wise. I wore these for an hour in the store to be darn certain the $200 O was gonna spend was going to serve me well for a t least a year. Ive been in them for two hours at work and now my heel is rubbing the back of these boots and causing pain, my heel slips up the back about half an inch each time I take a long stride. How do I save these so I'm not thinking I just wasted 200 bucks? I cant afford to buy a different pair.

mullet:
That's why I've been buying steel toe boots from Redwing for over thirty years. I wear out a pair a year.

WhistlingBadger:
No real suggestions on how to save them--I'm sure that blister pads and thick socks have occurred to you--but i feel for you!  Sounds like they're just a badly fitted bood.  I don't wear boots for my work, but I have had a terrible time finding hiking/hunting boots that work with my weird feet.  Hope you can figure something out.  It stinks forking out that kind of money for something that doesn't work right.
Thomas

TrevorM:
Sounds like you should have gone with the 9.5's and just broken them in. You probably already know this, but with the thick socks you also want to wear a pair to thin cotton socks under them.  I'd also try are new insoles, get the ones with good arch support. That should reduce the amount of wiggle room. If that doesn't work I'd try adding a piece of leather inside as a shim and possibly heat molding them.

Lefty38-55:
New boots, especially those made of leather, need to be properly broken in slowly, by wearing them 1-/ hours a day and gradually going longer.

Some friends I know (all Contractors) who were the old Bean boots (which used to have a lifetime replacement guarantee) would wet the boot, let it dry some, then walk around in it for an hour each day ...

A few of them too now, have switched to Red Wings.

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