Moon boots, which first saw light in the early 1970's as the footgear of choice for astronauts, club crawlers and snow bunnies, have been revived by the fashion tribe, and in particular by early adopters like Caroline Gottesman. Last week Ms. Gottesman, a 22-year-old Harvard senior, sprang for a pair of ponderous-looking nylon and polyurethane Tecnica boots, said by the merchants who claim to know about such things to be the original moon boot. On a day when the temperatures shot into the 70's, Ms. Gottesman wore hers with a miniskirt. "They're not hot," she insisted. "They're comfortable."Es for little girlies, not women. Grow up and buy super-fantastico woman shoes.
Was it only last summer that she doted on her Uggs? Never mind, said Ms. Gottesman, who has stowed those boots in the rear of her closet. "I've moved on."
Uggs, to be sure, still have a pulse. Over 14 million Ugg boots were sold in the third quarter of this year, according to their maker, an increase of 44 percent over the same period last year. But moon boots, a catchall term for all manner of thickly padded polar footwear (including hirsute variations better suited to a sasquatch), boast the distinction of being fatter, stiffer and more ungainly than their fuzzy Aussie siblings, and to their fans, much hipper.
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Manolo say, stupidest shoe ever. Ever.
