As the heinous Ugg boot trend drifts past New York and settles in over Los Angeles (ah, LA, to always be nine months behind the ill tide of bad fashion!), the oh-so-wrong boot phenomenon reinvents itself here in cowboy boot form. An angry reader writes with a PSA:

I just wanted to comment on a most annoying phenomenon. After the maligned spread of Uggs, LES and Williamsburg girls find it necessary to bypass hygiene for the (unfortunate) combination of cowboy boots and shorts or skirts. I am sorry, but each time I see one of these people, and it is 100 degrees, I am nauseated at the thought of the rotting smell their shoes must emit. Perhaps Kiehl's will come up with some kind of organic cream for odors emanating from particular abused footwear of Texan origin?