Wearing ballet flats and tights in this weather

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Am I stupid? I don’t have any boots that fit and not time to buy - have a corporate job and feel like I’ll look ridiculous!

Buy a pair of short black wellies, if you're not up for buying more expensive leather boots. Some of them are actually quite cute (gloss, with a bow, no label but look as though they are).

Job done.

Winter comes every year and this weather has been predicted all week. How are people unprepared for this?

"at more than £100 for a decent pair" utter rubbish!! Perfectly possible to get perfectly serviceable wellies from £10 and non-wellies from around £25 absolutely no need to spend over £100. I live in Scotland am on a very tight budget, live in an area where it almost permanently rains and regularly gets snow and I rarely spend more than £15! And they usually last me at least 2 years (possibly needing partially resoled in that time but not always)

"but it's far too cold for wellies right now!" Nonsense! Simply a case of wearing appropriate socks possibly tights too - again don't need to be stupidly expensive. Plenty of farmers, stable hands, vets etc in wellies in this weather doing jobs where they're outdoors most of the day!

You can even get glittery ones!

www.tesco.com/direct/ff-glitter-wellies/333-0835.prd

"These sorts of threads make me wonder how on earth some people get through life intact." And without spending stupid amounts of money!

I got some nice spotty wellies in Sainsbos and I've stayed dry not fallen over and not been dappy

Click on this link - a lovely big selection and you can get a serviceable pair for 7 quid. They'll last you for years and no one's saying you have to go on a catwalk with them or use them once you get for work. Look after yourself. Keep yourself warm and dry. As an adult no one else is going to do this for you. I sound like a nagging mum but it's more that there is a nice feeling from feeling that you're ready to tackle the day.

I have purple wellies from a local farm shop, cost me £15 and they are better than any designer wellies I have owned, I have a pair of Hunters but these were given to me.

Wellies with thick socks over your tights, put your ballet flats in your bag.

Or stay at home

I am never going to feel bad for spending money on decent footwear Graphista. Wellies are too cold for me, even with wellie socks. I have lovely warm waterproof winter boots, smart ones for town, others for trail walks, they might have cost a fortune but they last for years and keep my feet warm and I don't fall down on icy roads. Worth every single penny.
Some people don't get cold feet, I do, but not when I wear my appropriate footwear.

Makes me a bit sad that anyone can spend so little time outdoors or doing physical activities that they own no appropriate footwear for inclament weather.

Cavoli, the OP hasn't said she can't afford boots, just that she has no time to buy them. Also, wellies might not be too cold for her. You're just applying your own ideas about footwear to other people.

MichaelBendfaster I wasn't replying directly to the OP, my answer was to another poster. Stop taking my comments out of the context they were written please.

If you have feet that are size 4 or under you can get kids’ wellies = even cheaper.

Your post, OP, reminds me of the time I was walking home along the main road after a daytime spring countryside walk. I was wearing my walking boots, jeans, a bobble hat, and an outdoorsy padded jacket.

Two very trendy looking young women passed me and as they did so I could hear them saying ‘Oh my God. What does she look like?’ and sniggering while looking me up and down. It was as if they thought we were all the same age, and in a nightclub on a Saturday night, not round the corner from the local park. I imagine they may well wear ballet flats in the snow. Be more sensible than these girls, OP.

I have a couple of students that will only wear ballet pumps. It annoys the hell out of me. They moan about being cold and walking to class - one even came out without a coat yesterday! These are adult women too. They have come from Pakistan but have had 3 years to get used to Yorkshire winters.

Cavoli, your general contention is that you can only get decent boots if you spend a lot of money. Other people including me are just saying that's not necessarily true. I know you weren't replying to the OP.

I work in a financial company and went to work yesterday in my wellies, I changed in to my heels once I reached the office.

In the summer, I go in trainers if I'm walking and again change when I get to work. Most people in our company do this and you're in the minority if you don't.

MichaelBendfaster
someone was mocking someone for reaching 25 yo without having a pair of boots. My reply was that as they are expensive, and some people don't have any use for them, it's not that ridiculous

I have dogs to walk, and have to walk to catch my trains, I have boots.
If I was always driving, wasn't keen on walking outdoors and wasn't living in a "snow country"< I would have absolutely 0 reason to purchase boots I'd never wear because they are a waste of money then.

"Cavoli, your general contention is that you can only get decent boots if you spend a lot of money. Other people including me are just saying that's not necessarily true"

That's the point I was making

"My reply was that as they are expensive, and some people don't have any use for them, it's not that ridiculous" but they AREN'T all expensive and they don't NEED to be as I and others have shown and said.

I don't think they're a waste of money at all, if the alternative is even a few days of wearing unsuitable shoes and having freezing, wet feet!

And, to repeat myself and others again, boots are not by definition expensive.

This was the moment I realised I was an adult: I bought Wellington boots to keep me feet dry. I think I was around 23 at the time

I never had a pair of wellies in my 20s, I had trainers that were perfectly suitable. I dont' call wellies suitable for the snow anyway, never met anyone living in ski resorts wearing them

Ski resorts where you'll be in your footwear all day sub-zero temperatures, aren't comparable with a few snowy streets to get to work without getting soggy tights.

Could be worse I just saw a woman wearing thin capris and a light pullover jacket walking with her groceries in the snow at -3

You're 25 years old and can't dress yourself to go out in the snow... Alrighty then

Its not uncommon to find people who have no suitable footwear for anything outside a brief stroll from a cab to a bar. I once went up a glacier in Canada. A GLACIER. Might have indicated that stiletto heels were inappropriate. Not for one woman. She got out of the vehicle and expressed dismay at the ice. The rest of us went exploring as she stood holding on to the vehicle that took us up there then sat inside and sulked at the unfairness of it all.

That was Canada. In NZ they actually kicked your feet and if you yelped they sent you packing for not having suitable shoes to hike up a glacier. Sturdy walking boots the minimum and they give you tampons.

I wear wellingtons regularly and I live in an area of a country than never gets snow and rarely drops below 10c. I wear them in heavy rain, for tramping in the bush when it might be muddy, on the beach in winter for 'paddling' in the sea. For snow there is nothing better. Load up with two pairs of hiking socks. Toasty warm. Had them for 10 years.

£15

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