as well as a full-length elasticised panel and zip. Our deputy art editor Sophie Cheeseman tested these boots and she found the boots to soften up really well and were really supportive in the foot.

Every year, around this time, I start to develop a bad case of what I call ‘boot-gap envy ... t like the look of the half-size zip. If a full-length zip doesn’t do the trick, then surely ...