In the case of the boots in Post #9,140...
...Yay![/Y] Those boots are nowhere near fail. Look hot in cold times with those lovely boots. They'd be great with a skirt knee-length to floor-length or cropped pants (I'd recommend more wide-leg cropped pants). If you're feeling more daring, why not a pair of trouser cuffed short-shorts with these boots? No matter what you like wearing with these boots, you'll look great with these. That's even if you feel required to tuck these into jeans.
So just about most of us seem to be in agreement that these boots are a definite yay.