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The Defamer correspondent on Australian White Trash Exports Passed Off as High Fashion pleads with us to stop the furry, climate-inappropriate madness that is LA's obsession with Ugg boots (at left, Kate Hudson's legs). Maybe next week we'll see the city's mactress, fashion-victim army pounding cans of Foster's and carrying boomerangs? The trash angle does however completely explain Britney Spears's Ugg fandom.

As an Australian reader of your site I just have to point out the cultural attitude towards Ugg Boots in my country, since we're responsible for releasing this horrific fashion trend upon the world. By no stretch of the imagination have Ugg Boots ever been considered high fashion here, or something you'd wear in polite company.

In Australia they've always been considered blue collar lower class slobwear (I think you call it "white trash"). Usually worn with tracksuit pants (sweats) and flannel shirts, they signalled to the world you put comfort above image and hygiene, (as the boots have a tendency to stink).

You would be turned away if you wore them in clubs or restaurants. In the Employment Preparation classes during high school it was drummed home to NEVER wear Ugg Boots to a job interview. Teenage girls in high school would
squeal in horror if they saw a guy pass wearing them. On television programs, the shorthand to denote a character was 'trash' was to put them in Ugg Boots. They were the footwear of choice of unemployed tattooed ex-cons and shelf-arsed 'single-muvva-wivva-daw-dahs'. No-one with any sense of self worth would be seen dead in them.

I wonder if all the women wearing them in your country realise that over here, dressed like that, we'd expect them to be sitting in lawn chairs outside their trailer home watching television next to a husband drinking beer in his undershirt with visible sweat stains?

This is Ugg Boots dirty little secret. The Australia media here may sing their praises now that they're a successful export, but that's par for the course whenever some overseas authority bestows success on something from our country we know is sub par (Inxs, Savage Garden, Mel Gibson).

This has to stop!