Admit it : with all the new models of shoes to choose from, in the end designers are confusing us. It is easy in the summer; we choose between sandals, flat shoes, high heels, and eventually flip-flops when it gets really  hot. But in the winter? City casual shoes, ok, that's easy. Boots and thigh-high boots, even there I can tell the difference. When when we are talking about ankle boots and low boots, I start to get a little confused. 

Here is a little lesson for fashionistas who need a little brush-up on their fashion vocabulary.

Let's start with the ankle boot. This term is relatively new and has grown is popularity among fashion professionals as the fashion trend has grown and grown. Today, it is still more chic to speak of low boots than ankle boots, so we use this term in a lot of different ways. Take note: to be called a ankle boot, the shoe in question has to have a relatively high heel (if not it is a low city shoe) and the upper cannot go past the ankle.

Here are a few examples :

                 

For the low boot, it's even easier. This is what you call all shoes that have an upper somewhere between the ankle (ankle boot) and the knee (boot). Normally, if you wanted to be extremely precise, the low boot should have laces. But, with the diversity of models proposed year after year, everything that is too short to be a boot and too high to be an ankle boot is called a low boot.

A small picture demonstration :

                 

Does that make sense now ?