It’s that time of year again when we start switching over to our winter clothes!!! So after many years of looking fabulously cute in a thin $40 dollar plastic jacket and freeing my behind I promised myself that this year I would go out of my way 1 to buy something nice but 2 that would keep me warm!!!  So I have started my investigation on winter boots.  Actually I should say snow boots.  I live in CHICAGO!!! And don’t own a pair of descent winter boots.  I need something good that will really keep me warm.  The first boot in my head UGG boots.

UGGS ARE MADE IN CHINA PEOPLE….. Does this really matter… uggg I don’t know but I feel you should know.  Also the word Ugg is a generic term used when talking about sheepskin boots in general, but it was made famous by Deckers.

I did my homework on Ugg Australia and this is what I found from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.

“Unable to find the boots in stores, UGG fans turned to eBay, often paying three or four times the retail price. Not everyone got what they paid for, however. Receiving their eagerly anticipated purchase via international mail, customers around the world were dismayed to find they had mistakenly purchased not UGG boots, but uggs— sheepskin boots manufactured by one of UGG’s many Australian competitors. While generic uggs have been a cottage industry in Australia for decades, their homespun image was in stark contrast to the luxury image Deckers was cultivating in the States, and it appeared consumers weren’t buying it.”  From the WSJ

Below is also a snap shot of one of the pages from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

http://magazine.wsj.com/features/behind-the-brand/the-golden-fleece/