"I'm a 8 to 8.5 and the 9 fit just a teensy bit short. The lining had to be pulled up a bit as you are putting them on and that helped. In the store I had leggings on and they fit great. However, when I went to put them on at home and had jeans on, the ankle and calf was so narrow, I had trouble zipping them. I had to pull and tug and tuck. The "tongue" material was catching in the zipper on the second one as well as being too tight to get the zipper more than half way up the calf. After a few minutes of backing the zipper up and down, I gave up. They will be going back. It shouldn't take me 5 minutes to put boots on. The lining also bunched a lot, squishing down into the foot and feeling bulky."