Wellies
I have never been a big fan of Wellies as a fashion choice. I can't countenance the CU undergrads who rock the Wellies with ill-tucked jeans or (stupid, stupid) miniskirts and leggings. Hearing stories of Ms. N's sloaney flatmate in York wearing Wellies in Venice with tailored wool skirts was just too Camilla Parker-Bowles for me. But when I spotted a cute polka-dotted pair last fall that would have gone with my robin's-egg-blue puffer coat (we don't, after all, want to be mismatched) -- and then spotted another serendipitous pair, with Nigel, at the Marc Jacobs store on Bleecker for but $35, I should have taken it as divine instruction.
I have just literally squished my way home in my sole pair of loafers. Perhaps my last-ever pair of loafers. I was trying to dress 'in a manner respectful to the court' for jury duty. My feet have been varying degrees of wet since 9:00 this morning. Damp on jury duty, soaking at lunch, completely and utterly vulnerable to all matter of puddles, potholes, and the especially disgusting water that collects in subway stairwells and platforms when it has been raining for, oh, say, 24 hours. I literally walked around with paper towels in my shoes today INSIDE, switching them out as they absorbed water from my insoles. [I have been searching in vain for photos to post, and have none, since I couldn't take my camera with me today.]
Fuckin' sign me up (sorry, Mama). I'm serious. I still will not tuck my jeans into them, I just can't, but I will gladly wear them underneath everything to make me unaware, if not impervious, to damp hems and soaked feet. What an odd convergence of Dad's rainy-day farm staple clothing and urban fashion trends. I am spent. But I am home, and I am finally drying out.
On a brighter note, how 'bout that Democratic victory? And that Rumsfeld resignation? Now we're cookin'!
posted by Wabes @ 11/08/2006 04:47:00 PM
4 Comments:
hey - I clicked on your profile and there was no photo - what's that?
My dear Wabes, we are once again on the same wave length. Though I did not have the predisposed dislike of Wellies, I became convinced of the necessity of having them last year, but never pulled the trigger on buying them. But I have now! Thanks to the glorious J.Crew outlet, I am now the proud owner of a green pair. Though I missed the 24 hours of rain to them off, as I was spending hours in an airplane that was not allowed the land because of the aforementioned rain.
Someday, I suppose, I will have to offend you by tucking my pants into my new Wellies, because if there's anything as annoying as soggy loafers it's jeans that are soaking wet to the knees. Though I concur with your sentiment about Wellies and skirts.
imelda, wabes, we'll have to agree to disagree; i snagged my wellies (from the aforementioned MJ sale) for the express purpose of wearing them with skirts and leggings. what's the point of big clompy boots if they don't make you look like tank girl?
still shopping for the missile bra half of that look. i'm pretty confident that i won't be mistaken for CPB.
anonymous, i have no picture posted because it sort of creeps me out to post a picture. and because being google-nonymous is appealing. which doesn't explain it, but i'd rather have the writing voice define things than a picture of me.
gals, gals - we can settle this amicably. lauren can certainly rock the wellies & skirt look, but not in the trashy undergrad-ass-showing way that imelda and i object to. like, for example, how lauren rocks the short pants thing, but would probably not (i dare say) go over to the leggings dark side. we trend selectively. right?
but i'll eat crow on this one, too. i've never tried wellies and a skirt, nor have i tried tucking my jeans in -- unless i was mucking stalls at home with my dad during college. and tank girl does sound like fun.
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