Tried making a new pair of boots.
In an effort to better match the cleaner lines of other content in the game, I made them super-huge this time, figuring I would just scale them down. Turns out I made them a bit too big, and the game can't scale them down far enough to fit perfectly on anyone's feet (plus they look all ugly and pixelated when you're not zoomed in on them.) Ended up manually putting them on in
paint.net... even then, I'm not happy with the loss of detail due to excessive downscaling. I'll definitely have to tinker with these a bit more to get them to look good.