My Hunter wellies are boooooring. Would it be daft to put stickers on them?

[Jacksmania]

Yes, I am a grown-up .

I bought Hunter wellies last year and while I love the boots, the colour isn't what I expected. I ordered them off a discount website. I thought I'd ordered the metallic silver ones (the ones that look sort of like space boots :o) but when they arrived they were the high-gloss pewter kind. :(
For whatever reason I didn't get my arse in gear to return them in time, so now I'm stuck with them. I suppose I could sell them and order a colour I actually like but it seems like such a faff and I wouldn't be keen on losing money on the whole deal.

So, would it look stupid to put stickers on them? Supposing I could find some arty flowery ones? A friend had a sort of abstract peony sticker on her car recently, god knows what gave me the idea but I thought, "hmm, that could look good on my boring boots".

Daft, or not?

V Daft

Ah well, it was a thought :o

Are you arty - you could stencil on them?

go for it :)

Are you five?

If not, then yabu

Sure why not, they're your wellies!

they are just wellies!

Use a senecio. Stickers will peel off and your wellie boots will look like the bedroom windows of a chav's house on a rough housing estate where they've stuck random stickers up and they've all half peeled off.

Senecio means stencil

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your wellie boots will look like the bedroom windows of a chav's house on a rough housing estate where they've stuck random stickers up and they've all half peeled off

Wow. Thanks.

Sell them on ebay, you'll get a good price for them.

Replace with flowery/pattern ones that you can pick up cheaply.

Personally I would sell them and get a pair you want. I found them uncomfortable and sold my pair on ebay for more than I paid for them!

Or google the stencils and have a go, but if you stuff up then you won't be able to sell or wear them.

get some funky welly socks that fold over the top instead.

Sell them, mine were shit and leaked after a few months.

I love the insouciant, not giving a f**kness about putting stickers on your designer wellies. It has a kind of bohemian charm about it and I would feel much more warmly towards someone I saw who had done that than someone in unadorned Hunter wellies.

Ebay them and get something you like. Stickers will get grubby and look shit. And stencils might not work either - the colour might leak or run when you apply and it could still peel off. Sounds like a bad idea.

I think customising them could be good if you do it well. Not with stickers though. That'd look a bit strange I think.

Glue sequins and diamanté beads on for a bling look.

Could you spray paint them with a colour that you like? I think Plasticote would work.
Sharpie pens work well on wellies. Little skulls on mine.

This wellie blingery is quite Out There.

I think stickers could work. But like eBay wall decals and get removable ones. There's loads of butterfly ones you could just peel on and off as you fancied

Wow ArtisanLentilWeaver, she has certainly pimped her wellies!!
How about sad teddy bear welly toppers?!

Oooh I love those teddy Wellie Toppers but I'd need to add Evil Slanted Eyebrows to enhance them

I'd have thought stickers would just peel off when they got wet - or certainly start to wear away with time.
I like the idea of customising with paint or whatever though.

I have generic green wellies, which are so tatty and splattered with mud that there's no point in pimping them up. I am v tempted to buy a new pair just so I can.