Can I add to this - Wellington boots! I have really chunky calf muscles (no, really, I do; it's the only part of me that's solid muscle) and there's not a single knee-height pair of wellies anywhere that I can wear. I have to wear ankle-height-wellies instead and stay out of the mud. What's the point of wellies when you have to stay out of the mud?? I can't buy the men's wellies because I wear a size 4 shoe. Any welly big enough to fit over my calves doesn't come in a small enough shoe size to fit me.

What do other women like me do - do they buy men's wellies, and men's socks, and pack the space in the socks and the wellies with extra pairs of men's socks? (Maybe that's what those thin pairs of women's socks are for, now I think of it!)