To wonder why so many in London are wearing Wellies!

[StarlightMcKenzie]

I've lived in London all my life and only once as a child owned a pair of Wellies for a trip to the a Lakes.

Is the Thames Barrier in danger of falling apart? Are there flash floods forecast?

Or is space such a premium people of a London who can afford to remortgage their homes, do so to get in a few extra stories under their house?

i don't know... so they don't get wet feet when it's rainy?

Haha I know, makes me laugh! Saw someone walking their kid to school in summery, concrete Clapham in a wax coat and wellies.

Easier to wash the vomit off your shoes.

My feet never get when when it is rainy not wearing Wellies.

I keep wondering if the next place they are going is very muddy but can't really think of anywhere that woukd necessitate Wellies.

Because they are warm and comfortable and keep your feet dry, and you can keep your work shoes under your desk and change into them when you get to the office? Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

I do school/nursery run in wellies in inner London because otherwise my shoes get wet.... Happens all the time.

Also, we are regulars to the local city farm. Tis very muddy there.

Dd3 wore wellies to nursery today because they were easy to put on herself.

I didn't own a pair of wellies until I actually lived in London.

I wear wellies when it's raining for the same reason my DD does - to keep my feet dry and the bottom of my trousers clean! If you've lived here all your life you'll be aware that when it pisses down with rain you walk along and get dirt spattered all up with back of your legs (pavements being dirty and that) and turn up to work with your tights/trousers covered. Wellies stop that (as do knee high boots). If it's not raining, then I have no idea why people where them - maybe they think it might/have some nice designer wellies they want to show off.

Perhaps they were taking the dog for a walk on Clapham common after they'd done the school run?

Wax jackets are warm,Dh wears one!

There is a special law that permits Wellington Boots to worn in three London areas.

Putney Heath

Wimbledon common

and Hampstead Heath.

You are allowed to keep a pair in your car if you live near Richmond park-only to be worn at W/ends!

Around here loads of mums walk in the park after school run, long grass and ferns etc make wellies very suitable... but I don't have any.

I wear wellies in south-west London. My feet get wet in pretty much every other pair of shoes I own, if it is raining. If not my feet, then the bottom of my jeans will get wet. I have a short pair which look a little like ankle boots. I don't see the problem, they are comfy, they are dry...!

And yes I wear a waterproof too if it looks like rain. I can't hold an umbrella and push a buggy at the same time, and it's easier to already have it on.

Well I got to the park, and forest regularly too, but never see any runners with either Wellies or complaining of wet feet.

Parks really aren't that wet or muddy. A farm perhaps....

Because they're twats and want to sport a country life/uber wealthy lifestyle while they live in boring suburbia, pah!

I wear wellies due to the shit pavements on the way to school that are about 5 inches deep with water when it rains heavily. Also we have woodland walks close by which are very muddy.

Over 40% of greater London is made up of green space - stands to reason when it rains a lot of that might be muddy!

Yes that's it monkey - nothing says wealth more than a pair of plastic moulded shoes...

I tend to agree with the OP. I live in London and don't get wet feet when it rains and if the weather is bad, ie, very wet or snowy then I find my waterproof water boots much more effiicient than wellies - and they don't make my feet ache.

What I find quite entertaining is the obsession with designer wellies. Nobody needs designer Hunter Wellies to keep their feet dry and warm - you get a pair from the garden centre and wear them with warm socks and they do the job just as well. I'd rather spent £150 on a very very nice pair of leather boots which I wouldn't dream of wearing in heavy rain.

DD2 will wear wellies unless I have hidden them away in a safe inside a locked room barricaded with barbed wire and guarded by a more-than-usually irritable leopard.

Wellies are really better than shoes of any type if you want to jump in puddles. Which, under the aegis of Peppa Pig, many children do.

Agree with the hunter wellie thing, that is a bit silly. I have a nice pair from Zara that look a bit more like riding boots so perhaps that's my snobby wealthy wannabe London side coming out?

Seriously though wellies are cheap (or can be) and they keep your feet dry. I only own trainers or suede boot type things that are not suitable when it rains.

What footwear would the more discerning Londoners recommend for pissing it down weather?

Ah. It has hit the UK. Here in Scandiwegia it is compulsory footwear after September it seems when the converse are put away. Hunters are favoured. It is definitely, in the main, a 'trend'. However as trends go it is fairly practical.

Well I wear shoes mostly. Sometimes trainers. Neither give me wet feet as I look where I am walking and tend not to jump in muddy puddles much.

I'd wear Wellies to cross a Ford though.

I wore trainers on the school run (damn, must get the cab company on speed dial so I can miss the rain!) and ended up with wet trousers, and dirty trainers.

Perhaps your streets have better drainage, however ill stick with my feet saving, easy to clean wellies thanks

don't care if you think I'm a twat

So when you walk in the rain in the city, the rain bouncing off the pavements doesn't soak your feet and lower legs?
How've they managed to change that then?

The path way to nursery takes 30 mins, the across the park grass/ mud way takes 10 mins. That's why everyone wears wellies.

Also I think many people do live in small flats compared to elsewhere in the uk so people try to get out across commons/ in parks every day to let the children run. The same radon everyone plas outdoors in torrential rain

What's the difference between "my waterproof water boots" and wellies exactly?
I bought my first pair of "designer hunter wellies" recently. I added a sheepskin insole too. They are luffly, warm and comfy, but I might also add a pair of cashmere socks when it gets really chilly in London.

Get lost the lot of you. They are practical and handy when you need to go out in the bucketing rain; you can wash all the dog shit off easily and you don't have to be the killjoy parent who doesn't jump in the muddy puddle too. I'd turn Peppa Pig into bacon given half a chance
I live in centralish London, there aren't actually lots of places that sell cheap wellies. It does actually rain here too and it's occasionally very very windy too. We all nearly DIED in the recent GALES doncha know?