Ladies with high-volume feet don’t get equal treatment, from Rossignol or anybody else. The flex range that rose to 100 in the Pure Pro line and to 120 for the Pure Elite skier with a tiny set of tootsies, tops out at 90 in the 3-model Pure branch of the family tree and its 102mm last. All pretense of delivering the ultimate performance experience is jettisoned in favor of getting a lightweight, warm and supportive 4-buckle shell to close around a foot that would rather be at the beach.
Before someone posts an angry tweet maligning our monstrous insensitivity, we’re only observing that Rossi’s Allspeed boots for women with wide (102mm) feet, née Pure, are only offered in the soft-flex range from 70W to 90W, an acknowledgement that Rossi doesn’t detect a market need for anything more substantial. This is a tortured way of saying that the skier who is bound for a Pure model will be so relieved to discover a comfortable, snuggle-warm boot that other concerns melt away like summer snow.