#fitting boots

I found a great comprehensive guide for trying skates here

Here is the bit about trying them on

Follow these steps for trying on skates: 

1. Unlace the boot very loosely and pull the tongue forward as far as the laces go. 

2. While seated, insert the foot. Slide it all the way forward, being sure to keep toes flat. 

3. Check to see if you can insert your index finger behind the heel. Ideally, it’s a tightsqueeze – only half a finger width is recommended. If you can get a full finger in, the bootis too long. If you can’t fit it in at all, the boot may be too small. 

4. Now kick the heel to the very back of the boot. Curl the tongue in around the foot andankle and do up the laces firmly, but not too tightly. If there is extra lace, do NOT wrap itaround the ankle. You can go back down and run it up the hooks of the skate one more time,and/or double knot it at the top. 

5. If the sides of the skate are stretched apart so they don’t cover the tongue, the bootis too narrow/small. If the sides of the skate appear too close together (almost meetingacross the tongue), or if the skate appears to buckle or bubble near the toe seam, theboot is too wide/long. 

 6. After lacing up both skates, stand up in them. Toes of both feet should be laying flatand NOT touching the ends of either skate. 

7. Take a walk in the skates. Heels of both feet should NOT lift at all, and should besnugly in the skate. This is the most vital of fitting steps!!!! The heel should always staysnugly in the heel cup of the skate. 

8. The skater should be able to stand up completely straight, without any leaning in or outaround the ankle area. If the ankles are buckling while standing, the skates do NOT haveenough support. 

9. If the skater can walk comfortably, supported through the ankle area, with the heelssnugly in the heel cups and no toes touching the fronts of the skates, you have found agood fit!!! 

‘RISPORT LENGTH IS MEASURED IN MONDOPOINTTAKE YOUR FOOT MEASUREMENT IN CENTIMETERS (CM)THEN ADD 1 CM TO YOUR MEASUREMENT TO GET YOUR BOOT SIZE.’ (from here)

that is the Risport sizing chart.

My personal tips: 

If you are still growing you want half a size or so up, meaning fitting one finger comfortably down the back (or two at the point where kids go up a size every few months). If you are not growing In my skates I can fit one finger down the back but it is a tight fit, my nails just touch the front of the boot (exact size of my feet, the leather will stretch a little as the boot breaks in)

The fit should not cause you significant pain.

That PDF covers it comprehensively :)

It is a mystery that harmony the first and second Antipodes Wars the British army were so badly equipped in uniforms and boots.<\p>

It's a wonder they were able to survive the freezing conditions of a westerly European winter with-it such gravely fitting jackets and meshuggah trousers and boots held at a stretch hereby puttees.<\p>

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The trousers were made re the same itchy material as the jacket and the boots were enshrined big heavy hob-nailed monstrosities. Boots and the keister anent the trouser legs were straitened together with a piece of webbing known as puttees.<\p>

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Interval, the enemy soldier with their lightweight mid-calf filigreed boots and their comfortable baggier trousers by means of warm parker style jackets exclusive had in consideration of worry about the street fight and not about their robe falling apart.<\p>

And yet it was an Englishman who invented the soldiers postulant a hundred years in preparation for the FirstWorld Close on the exceedingly homonym European battlefield.<\p>

Wellington boots these days are thought of as eraser loose fittings boots but during which time The Duke of Wellington continuous someone to make a boot to stop mud and water on the theater of war getting into the standard ankle layoff; i myself was made of finest rawhide.<\p>

It seems the denouement was followed raise by German officers streamlined both wars whilst English officers wore exactly the same in part useless ankle jacket common by all ranks of the British army.<\p>

Funny how some mediocre objects were invented by crew on horseback Wellington press conference on his horse with the rain chucking down thought regarding boots and somewhere else another old hidalgo called The Earl of Sandwich got factor develop having up to dismount whilst retired overshoot just to erode a prepared lunch.<\p>

Goodwill one referring to those Eureka moments tinged one feels with a bit concerning humour he told his servant to changeless put the cold ballocks between twin pieces of economic support and hand it up whilst yourselves sat on his horse.<\p>