HELP with Gumboot Sizing for toddlers...
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Topic: HELP with Gumboot Sizing for toddlers...
Posted By: BuzzyBee
Subject: HELP with Gumboot Sizing for toddlers...
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 5:56pm
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We are on our third pair of gumboots, I have to keep exchanging them for a bigger size at The Warehouse. We tried the Hi-hippo 18-24 months boots that velcro up the side first and to no avail, my boy has very thick/chubby ankles.
So I bought a size 4 in the rubber gumboots, still too small. Size 5 the same story. I can't even seem to get them on - is there some special technique in doing so? I'm going to take them back tomorrow for a size 6 (ARGH) but just wondering for those of you with walkers/kids around the 12-18month mark - what size gumboot would they take? This is totally doing my head in ......GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR |
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 7:11pm
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Isla's are a size 5 from the warehouse. I just measured by putting her foot up againt the sole of the boot. If he wont bend his foot to help u get them on, then it wont make a diff what size u get! Measure his foot like I did, then try putting one foot at a time then standing him up.
ETA- She fits size 18-24 month hi hippo ones,..def not the 12-18 month ones! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 7:28pm
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Gremlins are in sz 5 too, I find it's easiest if I put their feet into them then make them stand up so their weight pushes their feet in properly.
Failing that, Maya had some very cool (but pricey) PP ones that had handles on them that made them easier to get on and off. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 7:36pm
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Size 5 here too but I'm no help as Elle's feet are tiny and she slips into them no probs (clomps around chronically as they are too big but I couldn't find any smaller ones). ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 8:04pm
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Josh is in size 6 ones. I found today that if I put them on him and then bent his legs so I could push his foot right in. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 10:10pm
Lucas is not willing to co-operate when I'm trying to put shoes on him. Maybe I will have to wait until he's a bit older to attempt the gumboot thing. All his shoes are soaked at the moment from walking around on the wet grass....SO I tried him in his first pair of hard sole sneakers today, I think they actually made him walk a lil better. He's growing up so fast ...take a look 
Here's bub in his first pair of proper shoes ...My little soccer player 
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Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 7:26am
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Awwww, he IS getting grown-up! What a hunny. Ella's dad got her size 6 gumboots when she was only a year old, as she'd grown out of the ones that velcro up the side (thank goodness... they were cute but useless). I thought he was crazy, but whaddaya know, though they looked a little big she still wandered about in them no worries, and we've not had to buy her new ones yet, despite her graduating from size 3 to 4 to 5 shoes in that time. ------------- Andie |
Posted By: scarecrowfarm
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 12:19pm
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Lucy's feet are too small to even fit gumboots right now. I sell them through our website but our size charts are US rather than UK so they tend to be one size out.
Tell me his foot length and I should be able to give you the correct size. The average 18 month year old is a size 5 US (size 4 UK), but to be honest, what is average? My kiddo wears 6-12 month shoes at 16 months and has heaps of space. My friends kid needed 18-24 month shoes before he hit 12 months. ------------- Robyn www.scarecrowfarm.co.nz |