How to Wear the Over-the-Knee Boot
Pull on Thigh High Boots for Sexy, Slenderizing Style
Sep 10, 2009
As the fashion section of New York Magazine boldly states, “Pants are so last year.” If you want something funkier, fancier, trendier, and chicer to dress up your wardrobe, the over-the-knee boot is the style of the moment to snatch up.
On the runway, designer after designer turned out their fanciest frocks accessorized by none other than the tall boot.
Here are 7 ways to wear the thigh-high or over-the-knee boot, no matter your shape, height, weight, or fashion fears.
- Extended Summer. Thigh-high boots are meant to be seen and flaunted. That means you’ll be sporting short-short dresses, mini-skirts, and shorts all through fall and winter to make room for the inches and inches of boot. Who can’t love a boot that gives you a fabulous excuse to keep your favorite spring and summer outfits at the front of your closet?
- Fashion Camouflage. Have a love-hate relationship with your knees, thighs, ankles, or calves? Invest in a pair of over-the-knee boots and you can hide any flaws you may think you have on your gamely gams. Also a plus: you can latch onto skin-tight thigh-high boots, or get comfy cozy in waders and looks with a little breathing room. They’re both super-chic, whatever option you choose.
- Corner Chic. You can finally dress like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman… without being accused of looking like a prostitute. The umpteen textures, colors, and heel heights available from this season’s savvy designers give you a wide variety of boots to test out. So you can go for super-sexy, shiny, black leather or down-to-earth, Mother Nature brown… whatever satisfies your daring inner fashion diva.
- Options, Options, Options. Comfort is still key no matter the fashion trend – and it’s crucial to wear what makes you feel good. So you can go with the truly thigh-high boots that really do make you look like you’re wearing suede pants from your toes to your hips. Or you can select the slightly more demure just-over-the-knee boots that still gain you style points but require a little less nerve. From flats to chunky heels to five-inch stilettos, latch onto the style that you know you’ll wear most often.
- Breathe Easy. Tights and panty hose are not required for this fall fashion trend. Buy boots that are high enough and skirts that are low enough to blend together and you can strut around in your thigh-skimmers with your favorite striped socks underneath. No uncomfortable nylon or spandex in sight.
- Slim and Slenderize. Talk about streamlining your look. Nothing makes you look longer and leaner than a head-to-toe look. And with half of your body covered by a pair of sizzling tall boots, you’re only one boyfriend blazer and multi-chain necklace away from a finished ensemble.
- Matchy, Matchy. Thigh-high boots go with practically everything, especially all the classic fall trends, and the trendier ones like leather shorts and miniskirts. Try on a daring color choice, like purple or robin’s egg blue, or go the “safer” route with black, grey, or brown.
Footwear this fall is fierce, and your wardrobe should reflect your style whether you go short or long when it comes to boots. You know you’ve made the right fashion choice when your strut is accompanied by a little tune in the back of your mind... "These boots were made for walkin'..."
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