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Day 324 – The season to wear sparkling shoes not sweat filled slippers

November 25, 2010 at 5:56 pm (Uncategorized)

Warning – Rant

Ugg boots: Perhaps the rise in wearers of the dreaded monstrosity that is the Ugg boot can be attributed to the increase in cold weather, maybe however it is a sign of the growing trend towards incarceration in institutions.

Whatever the case I could not help but notice during my few hours of freedom today, that there was far too many folk with their slippers on.  In the grounds of a mental institution, where you have nobody to impress but yourself and your review panel wearing Uggs is understandable.  You are a patient after all and it is therefore entirely acceptable that comfort, not fashion may be your number one priority.

I am proud to say that during my incarceration, other than those days that \I have been bound to bed, I have done my best to keep the flag flying by wearing high heels whenever possible.  There are many who have chosen the Ugg but as I said, in institution, acceptable, outside institution however, it most certainly is not.

The truth of the matter is that there really is no excuse for it, its like smoking except that it doesn’t make you look cool.  One of the worse things about this growing trend is that it makes the whole country look bad.

While European women are wandering around in beautiful collections from Manolo, Louis and Kurt, we are allowing our standards to slip by stepping out in this ugly monstrosity.

The worse thing about them is that they smell funny because people who see them as the equivalent of a baby blanket refuse to take them off through the day and sweat into their sheep skin lining.  It is the sheep I feel sorry for, there they are freezing to death in some far away field hoping their loss is at the gain of fashion.  Just think how they would feel if they knew the use to which the makers were putting their coat, it’s inhumane and far more worrying than the popularity of the fur trade.

It is time I think that we act by putting our best foot forwards this season and all wearing some sparkle, some shine and more importantly something that is not hospital appropriate.  We need to wear heels girls, or at least a nice pair of leather riding boots.  We need to not go around looking slouchy and adolescent or the country will become even more depressed.

I am a fan of Glee as you will know and Sue Sylvester has inspired me to take a more militant approach to the Ugg factor.  When a friend steps out in these monstrosities take them to one side and explain that you feel it best if they walk one slipper clad foot in front.  Alternatively frog march them to the nearest New Look where you can show them all the things that they are missing.

It makes me sad to think of all the beautiful shoes that are not being worn because the owners have been cursed by the bug of Ugg.  do not let your feet be ugly this christmas, give up on this dreadful trend and banish them to the back of your wardrobe, to Narnia if possible.

We must take a stand before more damage is done to our national psych.  Make today your throw a Ugg boot away day.  If we all unite we can rid our shores of this curse forever.