Why would Cugel place an order specifically for ill-fitting boots?

People with faces like unworked mahogany stand around in their tunic-like costume and ill-fitting boots with turned up toes.

She hurried over as fast as her ill-fitting boots permitted and lifted the bag from its shelf.

Ethan swore softly under his breath as another blister rubbed up by his ill-fitting boots popped.

Barely able to hobble, she went to the horse, aware also now of the blisters she'd gotten, hiking in wet, ill-fitting boots.

Complaints about ill-fitting boots rippled up and down the platform.

He hears the tumult and rushes downstairs, wearing Maguire's ill-fitting boots.

The two men discuss the poor quality of the ill-fitting boots and the permanent negative effect they have a person's feet and gait.

Workers wear no protective gear, uniforms or even gauze face masks, although some wear gloves and ill-fitting white boots.

On the positive side, he consoled himself, ill-fitting boots were more comfortable than life with Illyla would have been.