You can never have enough...

[Lilith7]

Oh I cannot imagine dealing with a missing heel. I have enough challenges with a fused ankle! Mind you, I noticed yesterday my feet and ankles have lost their summer puffiness and I have one elegant foot and one notquitesofat one, which is a rather nice thing in these years of slowly and not so slowly falling apart at the seams. It inspired me to give some thought and time to browsing ankle boot listings on Trademe, and I have found a pair - well a couple really, that do appeal to me.

But I wonder, is 70 too old to be wearing black combat boots? Even if I swap out the standard laces for red satin ribbons? They have zips as well...

Nonsense - of course 70 isn't too old for boots, of any kind. There is no age which is 'too old for boots'.
I still wear them at every opportunity, although I prefer calf length & I'm presently wearing my oldest pair, (bought around 2000 I think it was)  sort of 'cowboy' boots, despite having been made in India.
They have moon & stars on, & when she was younger, one of my granddaughters used to refer to them as 'gran's witchy cowboy boots'.

Like me, they're getting older but still have some wear in them, & have only been re soled once; from memory they were around the $100-$150 mark back then so have done quite well.
Wear boots!