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Anyone have any guidance on how Higgins Mill fits compared to 65 last? I'd be wearing thicker socks with the boot but they only come in 6.5 E and I'm a 6.5 C or D in 65 last with dress socks.
 

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Anyone have any guidance on how Higgins Mill fits compared to 65 last? I'd be wearing thicker socks with the boot but they only come in 6.5 E and I'm a 6.5 C or D in 65 last with dress socks.
I wear the same size in both. I find the Higgins Mill is slightly more roomy and I do just that, wear thicker socks. I could see someone going down one size in width, but I’m happy with it. 11 3E in both for me.
 

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Anyone have any guidance on how Higgins Mill fits compared to 65 last? I'd be wearing thicker socks with the boot but they only come in 6.5 E and I'm a 6.5 C or D in 65 last with dress socks.
I think you’ll need to wear pretty chunky boot socks for a 6.5E. Might work though.
I wear the same size in both. I find the Higgins Mill is slightly more roomy and I do just that, wear thicker socks. I could see someone going down one size in width, but I’m happy with it. 11 3E in both for me.
As you know, same sizing for me.
 

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I think you’ll need to wear pretty chunky boot socks for a 6.5E. Might work though.

As you know, same sizing for me.
Looks like no boots for me then. The only boots I want on the website only come in 6.5 E as the smallest size :(.
 

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Anyone have any guidance on how Higgins Mill fits compared to 65 last? I'd be wearing thicker socks with the boot but they only come in 6.5 E and I'm a 6.5 C or D in 65 last with dress socks.

My 65 last vs my 1757 last. I wear a D in both, but wear a 1/2 down on my HM. I do have a an extremely high instep-- if that makes a damn bit of difference.
 

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Anyone have any guidance on how Higgins Mill fits compared to 65 last? I'd be wearing thicker socks with the boot but they only come in 6.5 E and I'm a 6.5 C or D in 65 last with dress socks.
Hig is wider from the ankle forward than the 65; about the same from the ankle back to the heel. I take 65 and HM in the same size and width.Hig has way more room than I need up front for the toes, loads of wiggle room, but it doesn't really matter. With a boot, getting that heel width just right, to make a nice pocket that locks you in place, is key. Going width up in the HM is probably not going to work for you.You won't get that nice heel pocket you need to hold you in place as you stride.
 

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Gentlemen, I got carried away today and completely forgot that you should not sit Indian style on pavement. While this will be easy to fix with some Saphir creme, please learn from my mistake.

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Ouch... scrapes can be cured and add patina
 

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I think the correct term is now "criss cross applesauce".
I wouldn’t even know what that meant. But just the other day my Native American friend actually used the term “off the reservation”. But in all fairness he said the sentence, “When I moved off the reservation, I had issues keeping my status in the nation”, but of course a younger person in the conversation took offense. Not sure how you would talk about moving off the reservation without using those words.
 

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Looks like no boots for me then. The only boots I want on the website only come in 6.5 E as the smallest size :(.
In my opinion, boots on the 511 last fit a little smaller than the 65 or 1757. You might be able to wear a size 7 in the 511.
 

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Gentlemen, I got carried away today and completely forgot that you should not sit Indian style on pavement. While this will be easy to fix with some Saphir creme, please learn from my mistake.

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I would like to echo these words of warning. I have done this on two different pairs of cordovan shoes within about a week of each other. Both times it happened on an apparently dirty gymnasium floor. I've all but fully corrected my carminas but not the aldens (yet). Not really that concerned about it since I know I can fix it with some time and a lot of elbow grease. That's most likely also the case with your pair, although calf is sometime a little more difficult in my experience.

You might be wondering how I managed to do this twice in a week. The first time it happened, I didnt notice the damage when I took my shoes off and thought my 2 year old daughter got into my shoe cabinet a scraped them up somehow. She's a wild child... although I felt some guilt about this assumption in hindsight, it wasn't without good cause, I can assure you of that. But anyway, after the second time then I knew what was up and realized that I was to blame for screwing up both pairs. From then on... no more shell to youth basketball!
 

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Some of you guys are going to love these.

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Love the dark brown suede with lug sole, and currently at a great price.
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