Another thread about Uggs - yes or no? And if not, then what??

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

I have never owned a pair before, couldn't justify spending so much on something I couldn't wear for work.

However my new job as SAHM calls for a different wardrobe, and I've decided that I'm going to wear mostly dresses this autumn/winter. In my mind's eye, a pair of Uggs with casual dresses looks like a comfy and practical option, but I don't want to be a total style disaster!

So, are they in or out? I am not wanting to be uber-fashionable, that just isn't me. But I don't want to make an enormous style blunder.

Please help me oh wise and stylish MNers!!

[missmelly]

going by the number of threads on Uggs in here I'd say they're very much 'in'.

[Rollmops]

Ugliest things that trashy fashion has spat out in a long time.

[AnyFucker]

look at this thread

[moondog]

Noooooo
Or rather, go ahead if you want to look as if you have two club feet.

[BerylCole]

Love them. They're warm, comfy and practical. I lived in them the last three winters - when a SAHM / pregnant etc. What's the alternative? What's as warm and cosy and bloody snuggly? What are people who hate Uggs wearing?

[moondog]

Er..regular shoes and boots.
If you are going warm and comfy route we might as well just stay in baby gros for ever.

[masonicpixiesreadthedailymail]

I don't like them. Don't think they look attractive or flattering. Why would you intentionally affect cankles?

Sure they are comfy and warm. But I think if that's yr priority in clothes, yr not likely to fork out all them coins for ughs

They have a sunday magazine supplement air about them

[BerylCole]

What are 'regular' shoes and boots, though?

I find those clumpy Duo/Doc Marten / Fly London-type boots that lots of women love on MN hideous. I also think grown women in Converse look like tramps. And black boots under bootcut jeans - the M&S Mumsy look - is just so awful.

We all have our viewpoints, I suppose...

[masonicpixiesreadthedailymail]

slippers and staying in for me BerylCole

Or if I was going to somewhere desperately cold I would buy some cheaper alternatives. And only be photograsphed from the knee up

[moondog]

I'm with you on most of those.
A low pair of tough brown boots are good and comfy.
Also Chelsea boot or desrt boot affairs.

Boots with a thick heel or a wedge look stylish and comfy.

[AnyFucker]

beryl, and your viewpoint is paticularly, errmm, fixed, isn't it ?

what do you wear then ?

< feels a bit huffy 'cos regularly wears two of the "hideous no-nos" on Berl's "list" >

[scoutandjem]

Adore my uggs, don't mind if you don't. Buying celtics this year, just as good but almost 2/3 of price

[moondog]

Fucker, it's not the M&S jeans and boots is it?
With a fleece?

[TheCrackFox]

Desert boot affairs?

[AnyFucker]

nope moon, keep guessin'

[moondog]

Wine ot???

[moondog]

You is Fly and Converse look, Fucker.

[masonicpixiesreadthedailymail]

are you more a tramp AF? ;)

[AnyFucker]

yes moon, and proud of it

err, what does "wine ot" mean ??

[moondog]

Why not.
Just amusing myslef.

[BerylCole]

lol!@AF

I loved my Uggs when a SAHM. It was part of the uniform, along with saggy-arsed trackie bottoms .

Seriously, though, I have a few styles of boots - Cowboy-ish ones, riding boots, Uggs. I just dont understand why people are so repelled by Uggs when they are 6so bloody cosy, so I was making a point harshly, I guess. I do^ wear a version of PJs in the winter really - love my big cosy padded jacket and thick jumpers. Uggs no different.

[AnyFucker]

msonic, do you know me in RL ?

[crankytwanky]

I think I want some too. I had some non-ugg ugg-type boots about 4/5 winters ago and I loved them. They fell apart within the year though.

moondog, I know many, many, many women who work that "look".
Not me though.
I'm a tramp.

[paddingtonbear1]

I love them, but I don't buy the deckers Uggs - for some reason they make my feet look like boats! And I'm only a size 5. I prefer the Emus or the ones I get online from New Zealand.