When ordering online, always order your boots true to size or a half-size up—but never a half-size down. “Generally speaking, I tend to size everyone up a half-size,” said Beth Henkes, a sales lead at the REI store in Alderwood, Washington, when Wirecutter writer Ebony Roberts interviewed her in 2017. “For example, if I measure someone, and they are dead on an 8, in most boots I am going to grab them an 8½ and at least start there.”
