Although this forum is about to get wet and messy, I do have personally a preference to stay dry in my leather heeled boots whilst I walk in water and mud.
I love the idea of being able to walk where ever I /women wants in dressy look and do not care because the boots will be able to cope with the coditions
Plus feeling the pressure of the water on the leather whilst staying dry is quite exciting
Hopefully I am not the only one on this forum with this orientation in our common passion
With the time and experience I found out that some paire of boots (especially well made ones) without zipper can be pretty waterproof.
For example this pair of boots below from the brand "laura clément". I was able to play during 10 minutes in ankle deep water with them and then even to go to a flooded area that was closed to the top of the boots furing several minutes without any water leak inside ! I was honnestly really pleasantly surprise by their waterproofness
(who needs a pair of wellies when you have such waterproof leather boots)Can you share with us how waterproof some of your boots managed to be ?