Ugg boots.

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Maybe it was that it was slightly warmer--50s Fahrenheit rather than 40s--but no one was wearing Ugg boots in any of the parts of Europe I visited. That, or they have gone entirely out of style there, if they were ever in style there at all. I tend to think the latter, because there were plenty of people wearing boots, just not Ugg boots.

I noticed this because when I got back to the States, I started seeing them again.

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ugh, Ugg

[kateorama.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd been there. SFSU's campus is still infested with Uggs and their wearers. Other boots, too, any and all of which are more attractive than the Uggs. A friend says the Ugg trend is about the "covered-up-parts adjacent to exposed-parts" sexiness thing, but you know, those boots just don't say "sex" to me, nor do the shins and knees and bodies above them. And all the other boots would accomplish the same thing.

This is one of those "I just don't get it" trends that makes me acknowledge the generation gap. I don't feel "old" as in "elderly," but I do feel "old" as in "not a part of or able to grasp youth trends."

I used to wear big ugly boots, but I never pretended they were anything other than big and ugly. I was one of the few kids in my high school whose "Bean boots" (you know, rubber on the bottom and leather on the top) were actually worn out of necessity (working with horses), and thus had actual dirt on them. For others, they were a fashion thing, I guess. *shrug*