Emu Uggs Boots, Woolly boots, Australian Sheepskin boots or what ever your preferred name for Ugg Boots, there’s no denying that Uggs are the current craze in teen and adult fashion. You’ll probably wind up wearing them a lot more than your favourite pair of jeans, your best hoodie and particularly your old stinky trainers!

So if you’ve been living the life of a hermit and haven’t yet discovered the Ugg phenomenon, here is a rundown on what this fresh kind of footwear is about and why it’s proving to be so astonishingly well-liked by young and old alike.

Australian’s have been wearing sheepskin uggs boots since the Brit’s threw all of them off the tall ships to build their new colony. Ugg’s are so widespread in Australia that efforts to trademark the term Ugg Boots failed as it was descriptive of a kind of boot and not a specific product.

Aussie’s adore the outdoors, and in spite of the heat of the Australian dessert, there are lots of times of the year, and locations in Australia where the warmth of natural sheepskin is a definite plus in australia. Loved by the surfing crowd, the sight of a pair of Uggs appearing from the side of a VW combi has been gracing the shores of Bell’s Beach since the 60′s. It was merely a short trip across the Pacific from Aussie beachwear to Hollywood sheik-wear with female celebrity’s getting their women’s Uggs on like Pamela Anderson, and magazine’s like Marie Clare, Teen Vogue and Cosmo featuring celebrity superstars and starlets sporting the newest in sheepskin ugg boot style. In recent times men’s ugg boots have come to the arena and are often to be seen in the homes and on the streets of Los Angeles, New York and Birmingham.

Ask your typical Aussie and they’ll let you know about the pair of Uggs they wore in their teen years, but ask the typical US or United kingdom teenager, and they will *show* you the pair of Uggs they’re putting on this week. Typically for ladies it will be a pair of women’s tall Uggs in popular classic style – you just can’t beat classic looks.

Love em, hate em or just curious – you won’t discover a more comfy, and warm kind of attire for your tootsies and who knows – you might just look great getting your Ugg on!