I own 2 pairs of knee high boots in the 3 years I’ve been in SL. One is prim and I never wear them because the calf part looks chunky and the other is a texture based calf part which looks awesome but the shoes are seriously dated (um hello 2007?).
For a long time I’ve been meaning to head over to J’s shoes as I’ve seen them on various blog posts but I’ve not been able to make it into SL. So recently I created some new stuff and needed some shoes to go with the outfit so I said, “Hells bells, I will hit up J’s for some boots”.
Buying shoes that go up the calves for my avatar is difficult. Well let me rephrase that. It’s easy to buy any shoes in general but I am very particular about fitting things and finding something that looks good is very difficult. Usually boots make my calves look like elephant legs with no hint of an ankle at all. They cankle-ize me.
Look at how close the knee high boots fit to my avatar’s calves. It’s AWESOME!
Although I just demo’ed these (I plan to buy them later- the fat pack!!!!) the shoes I really needed for the outfit was the ankle high rounded boots. These look FANTASTIC and on hindsight I am sad I didn’t buy the fatpack.
Prim toes and Kesseret are 2 things that DON’T get along. My friend Iris Bourdielle made prim toes years ago and I wore her shoes for a long while but since then I’ve not found a pair that looked good on me or fit well. Sadly, since there are so many fantastic prim feet/toe shoe designers. (Despite the fact that many people have no reading comprehension skills and can’t understand the difference between not liking how something fits and writing about it v. completely dissing someone’s work I *do* admire Stiletto Moody shoes and their quality a lot.)
I love the fact that J’s offers demos! HOLY DEMO BATMAN! So I tried on these strappy numbers at J’s and they have a resize script (which I HATE) but it took 4 clicks and I was fitted. I also saw a delete option. How sexy is that? So I bought the fatpack. And you know what else I saw? THEY SCRIPT TEXTURE CHANGE! I AM IN LOVE! I love texture changing scripts so much that I actually use them myself.
Just see how sexy they look on me yourself:
I am still trying to figure out the toe matching to the skin. Do skin providers provide RGB info on their skins? I heard wind of it but never needed it before. If so can someone hook a sista up? 
But seriously, look at the way the straps fit! PERFECTLY! And this only took like 4 clicks to fit!!!! I seriously shit twice and died when I tried these on. My only desire is to have the script remove the resizing option and keep the texture change once they are fit. Which if it’s all one script that’s impossible. I am not a big fan of toe jewelry but I like the flower. It’s cute so I sometimes turn that feature on.
They are CHUBBY CAT APPROVED.
Love,
Kesseret
You sold me on those boots! I’m going to grabs a couple pairs myself.
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INDI sells some nice ones too — very reasonably priced and they fit us thick-legged chickies perfectly right out of the box. You might want to check them out.
Thanks for the great post!
@Pink! I am going to check INDI out soon. I need people to buy my stuff at the fair so I can afford more boots! The fat pack is a super deal at J’s. And I am happy that you are sold on these boots. I also want to check out SLink’s newer boots as she’s the creator of the texture boots I adore so much.
There’s a good way to match skin colour: go to the advanced menu and then UI, and right at the bottom you see ’show color under cursor’. You then get the RGB values of WHEREVER your cursor is, shown at the bottom right of your screen in white (small figures, and you need a darkish background!)
For feet, click on one of the paler areas of your skin, and then copy the values into the dialogue box for your prim toes.
This also helps when tinting modifiable clothes, btw: for instance the other day I needed a muddy teal coloured scarf to match a top, so I just clicked on the top, and copied the values to a white scarf.
A word of caution: Don’t forget where the ’show color under cursor’ is so that you can uncheck when finished. Else those RGB numbers will be in all your photographs. :/ (Spoken from experience…) Here’s a really good tutorial that illustrates exactly what Ariadne describes.
http://wehatewhatyourewearing.blogspot.com/2009/04/tutorial-how-do-i-tint-my-prim-feet.html
@Ariadne and Krissy:
THANK YOU!!!! That will help to fine tune my toe tinting! I am absolutely ecstatic and grateful for the help!
And thanks for stopping by!!!!
I am a huge fan of J’s as well, and like you, the demo won me over and made me a loyal customer for life~~ J’s are some of my “goto’s” when I am stuck on what to wear.. I am so glad you love them and that the fit is wonderful for you!!!
uhm you seriously need to check out bax boots. i was in awe when i saw how well they fitted me and i had almost given up on boots because i never got it right. i showed my friends and they fell for them too. they got an amazing script that makes them fit any legs, fat, skinny you name it and the best thing is they do the fitting in the store for you for free. highly recommended.