I don’t know what other little girls were like but I know when I was little I loved the rain and always hated the summer, as a big girl nothing has changed.
I remember being part of an after school programme to transform an old area of my primary school into a little conservation space with a pond. As soon as we were told a small number of us could sign up I immediately put my name in hoping I would get chosen. The next day I was given a letter to take home to my parents saying that I along with 9 other students were chosen to be part of the transformation team. I was so excited and couldn’t wait to get started. In the letter was a list of items that were compulsory for the project one item being Wellington boots.
My mum took me out one day after school in search of a pair, being a girl of 10 years old I wanted a pair of the cute boots that were on sale in all the stores that we looked in. Unfortunately after visiting a few shops I was noticing a pattern, none of the nice Wellington boots would fit me. I wore a UK size 8 and had a sumo wrestlers calves. The only boots that I cold get on were the old green ones from the men’s section and they looked so big and clumpy that I refused to let my mum buy them.
I remember being really sad and not wanting to face the group of volunteers wearing my regular trainers, then to make things worse I was told by the teacher that I was not allowed to take part in the project because of inappropriate footwear. Long story short my mum made an appeal to the teachers because I so badly wanted to take part and I spent a few evenings a week until the conservation area was complete being forced to wear a pair of the male teachers Wellington boots.
On the market recently there have been a ton of wide fitting boots available to women with larger calves which I think is fantastic. unfortunately I have still struggled to find any that fit me, I tend to go for ankle boots as they cut off before my leg gets massive. I have tried on wide fitting wellies in recent years and they just weren’t wide enough. I had made peace with the fact that my calves are just too big to wear certain boots until…
I recently heard about a company called Jileon – The wide calf welly people!
I went on to their website to have a look and I came across a youtube video they made showing just how wide their wellies expand to and it was only then that I had a glimmer of hope, I thought surely even my huge calves could fit in them.
I saw these and I knew I had to have them, I didn’t want to get my hopes up because I knew that the little girl in me would be devastated if they didn’t fit. When they came in the post I was scared to try them on, I was at home with my boyfriend just looking at them and telling him how beautiful they are (which he found quite amusing) but he couldn’t understand why I was scared to try them on.
Anyway after just cooing over them for a little while I tried them… I am not even embarrassed to say that was a little bit emotional at the fact that I, ME! had on a pair of cute wellington boots. Its times like these that make me so glad that I write a plus size fashion blog because all I kept thinking was that I couldn’t wait to tell all the other girls with really big calves that they too can have a nice pair of wellies.
I have very, very, very large calves and these boots are very comfortable around my leg.
I have to wear the boots at nearly full extension, which doesn’t bother me at all. They are absolutely gorgeous and I can now go and play in muddy puddles! 🙂
My super chunky leg and my super cute wellies.
I love the dress and wellies look!
I am literally dying to find a local festival that I can attend with cute wellies on and a flower garland in my hair lol
There are so many ways you can wear Wellington boots and I can’t wait to start playing around with them.
I spent the whole afternoon walking around my house and garden in my wellies because I was so happy, I was half tempted to wear them to my local asda to do the weekly shop lol
Massive thank you to Jileon Wellies who gifted me these boots to review. All opinions and thoughts in the blog post are my own.
Great post! So nice to see you got your boots! xx
I have those wellies, for exactly the same reasons. 😀 So nice to be able to find some, that my mum didn’t need to cut a expansion slit in the back of, like she did for a school trip at age 13. Plus they have flowers on. squee!
They are so amazing,I love them so much. Thank you so much for reading hun x
I love wellies and have the same problem thay the super cute ones never fit when I was in primary. As a little girl I has some frog ones that were crazy cute though xx
Loving the wellies! Enjoy the puddles. 🙂 Where’s your denim shirt from please? It looks amazing. x x
Hiya honey, its just a second hand fat mans shirt from ebay lol.
Hahaha, thanks for letting me know. 🙂
Your story made me emosh! Hooray for finally finding your perfect pair of wellies! x
They make me so happy, I feel like a little kid when I have them on 🙂
I know exactly where you’re coming from, Wellies are so difficult to find if you’re chunky of leg. I’ve just bought these in a lovely, glossy purple. I can slide my leg in and do them up over my jeans! Jileon had a 20‰ code on their Facebook page and free next day delivery. Must say I’m very impressed. Wish they made wide leg boots for every day too, with a similar fastening.
Thank you for your comment, its funny you should say that. I have a pair of everyday boots with the same fastening that I will have up on my blog early next week. They are brilliant for big legs x