These boots were intended to become my gardening boots but fate decreed otherwise. My big high-arched feet could not get in. Luckily I know this incredible young lady (about 10 years old) who lives on my street. I gave her the boots and since then pandemonium has broken out among the fashion-forward pre-teens in the area. I am certain that I am not on the "happy-list" of a number of parents anymore. Everybody has fallen in love with these boots and even some of the mothers have asked where they were obtained. In short, they have been a SMASHING SUCCESS!!!