UGGH!

I have to admit that I am snooty. In my own head I live in a world where people should wait on me. I should have come to age in the 50’s…you know the age of Camelot where woman wore dresses and white gloves to go down town? Yes, that era. I like class and elegance. I like really great personalized service. I like being treated like I have money (which I don’t). Perhaps I was a Vanderbilt in another life. Anyhoo, I fancy myself a socialite I guess. So…this past weekend when my sister and I went to Nordstrom’s for a little shoe shopping, I was quite delighted to be treated special. Because of course I deserve it. There were uniformed caterers walking around handing out crystal glasses of sparkling water and little tapas sized glasses of things like coconut panna cotta with a passion fruit gelee’ and fresh raspberries. Yesssss, finally a shopping experience worthy of my snootiness. Finally a store that was trying to put the elegance back in the shopping experience.

Come to find out though…this delightful shopping encounter was brought to me by none other than that Australian shoe company UGG. Nordstrom’s was having an UGG event. It wasn’t about me at all. Sigh.

Now for a word on UGGs – I have a love/hate relationship with the UGG. I think this is because I am not a very trendy person. If I had all the money in the world I would dress in classic styles that retain their relevance from season to season, with maybe one or two of that season’s trends thrown in for spice. I am also one of those kinds of people that will reject what everyone else is just dying to own merely because all of those people are annoying me. I never wore leg warmers, or banana clips, or lace gloves, and I have never teased my hair. Now this is not to say that I don’t sometimes like things that everyone else is obsessed with, but it is because I want to, not because everyone else is doing it. Case in point, I did read the Twilight books. So sue me! Long story short, UGGs are annoying to me because everyone just has to have them, and every year at Sundance people think “oh my goodness” if I don’t have UGGs I may freeze to death, etc, etc, etc. I can’t see paying 180 dollars for a pair of shoes that you may only wear a few times a year. Not that I am against paying over a 100 dollars for shoes, because I am not. I own many shoes that are in that price range. But I can wear them all year long and they won’t go out of style in a few years. I suppose UGGs do look cozyish (although I fear they make my feet too hot) but I have managed to live in a State that has snow 5-6 months out of the year without freezing to death. Soooo far all these reasons and more, I do not own a pair of UGGs. However, should anyone find themselves with an extra pair of size 7 ½ pink UGGs that they want to give away, I am your girl. I will even wear them to Sundance.