This boot is very tall with a well-padded shaft, but it definitely seems more at home on a Texas dance floor than on a city street IMHO. It is quite comfortable, fits true to size. I doubt you could wedge jeans into the shaft since it's fitted all the way up the calf and I have fairly skinny calves (14" around at the widest), but you might manage a legging. The silver inserts on the black version are a nice embellishment.

I was all excited to keep them since the quality is there and the price is right, until i found that a bulge where the bottom of the shoe meets the shaft on the left boot rubbed my ankle bone painfully when I walked in the first two minutes I had them on. I think this is a quality-control issue, ie. it was not stitched down well, because there is no issue on the other boot at the same point. Unfortunately, it's a deal breaker. If shipping and returns were free, I would reorder just to see if there was this rubbing in the next pair, but as it is, I don't need them that badly. If you're not an 8.5, and possibly getting the boot I return, you should take a chance on them.