Ugg Boots — Page 3

"The boots are extremely comfortable and warm (very good for walking around Ithaca's campus in December, I might add), but the craze around my area is just out of control. I just love it, though, when I see the 45 year old mothers with their jeans tucked into their boots trying to be like the teenagers!"

Isn't there just the teensiest possibility that those 45 year old mothers who are ALSO walking around Ithaca just might possiblity be wearing them because they also want something that's warm and comfortable? I know - it's a radical thought but you never know....

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Okay, so maybe they are warm.

But when half the grade of snotty prep school girls in FLORIDA is wearing them on a day when it is 70 degrees outside...that just plain makes me nuts.

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Exactly. It can be justified by one thing and one thing only: style.

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Ugg = uggly

They look ridiculous. Luckily the trend is starting to die out in Chicago. I have a couple of friends who have them and I laugh whenever I see them. They just look so silly. Good marketing can make people buy anything. Trendy fashion is at its lowest since the 70s.

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I have a pair of the pink knockoffs - but only for the snow. I've only worn them once so far, although obviously I'll be wearing them to work tomorrow (and changing into shoes once I get there). I have to admit they are warm as anything and comfortable as slippers. And perhaps the real ones have no tread, but these do. I had a pair of similar $100+ boots from a few years ago that also had no tread. I hated them - I fell and cracked my a** wearing them because they were so slippery. These cheap ones are more comfortable and much safer.

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I have Fuggs, which is what the kids in my school call "Fake Uggs" (Creative, no? lol). They're really comfortable but having like 20 pairs is ridiculous. EVEYONE in my school has them. It's like Attack of the Clones but... Attack of the Uggs. ha.

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Since I go to one of the preppiest schools in my area, I can totally relate. I am pretty much the only one without Ugg boots, though I must confess to owning Ugg clogs, which I think are much more practical anyway.

The point of Ugg Boots is not to be fashionable, it is to be practical. They were developed as a cheap way for AUSTRALIAN shearers to keep warm during cold nights.

THEY WERE INVENTED IN AUSTRALIA AND AUSTRALIANS AREN'T ALLOWED TO EXPORT THEM!!!

Another example of American Corporations screwing over the rest of the world. The name Ugg Boots was taken by an American Company, despite the fact that it has been used by Australians for decades (at least).

Paradox is correct. The Ugg is as ocker as meat pies and kangaroos. The shearers had the first uggs. But, it was the surfer dudes in Australia who made the boots popular in the 1960s and 1970s. These surfers were the first to market the boot as the Ugg.

It was the surf culture that spread the Ugg to California and beyond. I have to say that by the 1980s, back home in Oz, the Ugg had settled into a bogan charm. The recent popularity of these boots is somewhat baffling. However, I cannot ignore the warmth of the Ugg. In Ugg boots your feet will be as warm as an Australian beach in January.

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