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Original poster

To not understand the anti ugg brigade?

155 replies

Mniemmniem · 10/09/2010 20:42

I got a pair from my mum last Christmas and I'm a ugg worshipper now, they're so ruddy comfy I could sleep in them!
I just don't get why they are hated on MN?!

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Oenopod · 10/09/2010 21:46

I have an 18 year old Australian staying here at the moment. Apparently, according to her, Uggs are only worn by 'boguns' anywhere outside the house or garden. Any self-respecting Aussie teenager wouldn't be seen dead in them.

I think for 'boguns' read Aussie chavs.

They are slippers - wearing mine now - never wear them as anything other than slippers.

They'd be fugging useless as soon as it rained surely?

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 21:47

Can you imagine if Jarvis Cocker re-wrote Common People in present times? Uggs would feature somewhere. They must.

MaeMobley · 10/09/2010 21:47

Coleen Rooney wears them.

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1310707/Wayne-Rooney-begs-Coleen-forgiveness.html

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Mniemmniem · 10/09/2010 21:48

you know it's only since I came to the uk that I found you could spend alot of money on things and be called common!

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marenmj · 10/09/2010 21:48

I have woolies that I bought while in NZ. I do like the warmth of an ugg-type boot but despise paying so much for a glorified foam sole, so I bought something with a proper, non-slip, formed sole.

I do wear them outside, particularly when it is bitter cold and your feet go numb after a few minutes waiting for the train. I used to wear them for my commute in the winter and change into my work shoes when I got to the office.

My only regret is that the tan colour does look a little grubby five years on, even after cleaning. I am thinking of trying to find a way to dye them a charcoal colour.

Having lived in southern California during the Ugg zenith, my objection to them is mostly when worn with a miniskirt. Surely if it is cold enough for sheepskin it is too cold for a miniskirt??

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 21:49

My teenage DS wears vans,converse are so last year

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 21:50

I like a M & S footglove myself

chitchat07 · 10/09/2010 21:50

"That's the best bit - socially acceptable outdor slippers! Mwahahahahahaha"

Umm.... but isn't that the point? If so many people can't stand them, then they're not actually socially acceptable?? Hmm

And as an Australian living in the UK, I agree with the 'THEY'RE SLIPPERS' remarks so leave them at home!!!!!

sungirltan · 10/09/2010 21:53

i wore converse when i was 15. they were a bit de rigeur at school, but so were 501's friendship bands.

surely any branded item which is worn/bought by thousands and can be seen in every town is 'common'

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Mniemmniem · 10/09/2010 21:55

Well I don't think the Aussies get a say anyway, it's likethe Irish telling people how to drink guiness. It's my guiness and I'll drink it out of a mug if I want to.

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MadAboutQuavers · 10/09/2010 21:55

Mae - Coleen Rooney also called her child "Kai Wayne"... I ask you...

sungirltan · 10/09/2010 21:56

mad - really??? faaaark. i only knew he was called kai!!!

pointydog · 10/09/2010 21:57

Pro- and anti-uggers will never be able to see eye-to-eye. Because there is something wrong with pro-uggers fashion vision.

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 22:00

There's a difference between common and popular.

sungirltan · 10/09/2010 22:12

i see a good few skater types with those god awful fringes wearing converse doing their skateboard things in front of the civic centre......if thats not common....

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 22:23

Skates generally pertain to an alternative lifestyle so I wouldn't regard them as common.

Not like pushing a pram around Primark, whilst the kid in the pram shovels a Greggs steak lattice into it's trap. That's common and that's what Ugg wearers do.

PrivetDancer · 10/09/2010 22:26

No, cupcakes, that's what fake ugg-wearers do. Completely different breed.

I's not common.

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 22:28

Sorry Privet, I did mean to distinguish.

kitcat83 · 10/09/2010 22:31

Uggs are totally ugly and dont even get me started on Crocs!!!

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 22:35

If I ever see an adult wearing Crocs, I automatically assume that they have athlete's foot or another fungal infection of the feet.

scottishmummy · 10/09/2010 22:40

uggs are minging and result in strange gait.hate em

sungirltan · 10/09/2010 22:40

skate isnt alternative! its as conformist as bloody mainstream fashion!

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 22:42

It's a sub-genre of an alternative lifestyle.

I'm not going into a very boring diatribe about why it is, but it is. Emos, skaters, goths, rockers, punks; all "common" but pertaining to an alternative lifestyle whether you like it or no.

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 22:44

My feet are too sweaty to wear uggs ,they would stink

sungirltan · 10/09/2010 22:45

i understand the concept, i just think they are deluded if they think they non conformist!

its an alternative clothing style and hobby, yes, but its not exactly radical!