Still not sold on stompy boots? Here's why you're missing out

telegraph.co.uk:

Lisa wears a wool blend shirt dress, £119, Massimo Dutti; Leather boots, £295, Russell & Bromley; jewellery her own   When you think about the palaver of wearing a dress or skirt in winter, it’s a miracle that we didn’t proceed straight from bustles to trousers.Yet from the late 1920s to midway through the 1960s, women were expected to wear skirts of varying brevity with the flimsiest of stockings.

Nancy Sinatra growled about her boots being made for walkin’. Nice try, Nancy, but they had itty-bitty heels, and frankly, I don’t think so.As for that era in the early noughties when the fashionable went bare-legged – especially in Manhattan in February – it’s best glossed over really, because it’s just so embarrassing to think we even contemplated getting frostbite simply because, allegedly, Anna Wintour had once said that thick black tights were over (an observation, by the way, she has always denied making).Such was the power of Wintour then that for a while, even in winter, black tights were out of the question.

It was massively inconvenient, not least because it had taken me years to coax my mother out of her sheer black tights into matt black tights.The other thing about legs is that they account for quite a lot of one’s overall body.

There’s only so much of your life you can spend hiding them underneath a desk. So yes, ignore the annoying voice in your head and embrace the clompy boot.