Lit, Flicks, and Pop Culture Hits: April 2009 Archives
For once I noticed a fashiony trend before Mary. Apparently the new hip thing for girls and middle aged women who still think they're girls, is to wear Wellies around town. I'd forgotten the term until Mary reminded me, but Wellies (short for Wellingtons, as in Duke of...) are the commonly accepted brand name which has entered general usage - kind of like Kleenex, but for rubber boots. In England, where they have been made since time immemorial, possibly from before the Romans got homesick and went back to Italia for a little pasta, Wellies are the knee length rubber boots that people out in the country wear because in England if you step off the paved path you'll instantly be up to your hips in mud, even in the middle of the summer during a drought. I'm forever puzzled why England hasn't dissolved into the Gulf Stream. It seems to consist primarily as a colloidal suspension rather than solid ground.
In any case why rubber boot fashion has become a trend in America, much less New York is a puzzlement. I don't think you can encounter mud there even if you roll on the ground in Central Park. But women far and wide throughout the city are wearing the boots. Filed under category - The Mysterious Female Sex.
