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If you like other intelligent human beings, in the morning you check the weather and dress accordingly. If it is snowing, you will put on pants and a parka. If it is 90 degrees outside, you may wear a T-shirt and a pair of flip-flops. If it is raining, you have an excellent excuse to put on your multicolored and excessively tacky rain boots. So why is it that when it is 70 degrees and sunny, I see an exuberant amount of female students wearing their incredibly “stylish” Ugg boots?

For those of you who are unfamiliar, Uggs are the most hideous thing to enter the footwear industry since Crocs. They are high-top boots whose insides are lined with fur--that’s right, fur! Third-year English student Fritz Reuter is confused why “girls constantly gripe about cold weather but will find any excuse they can to wear those tacky boots.”

Suffice it to say, when it is cold outside, the engineering aspect of these boots will indeed keep your feet nice and toasty. However, currently, it is not cold. As a matter of fact, it is borderline hot. I guarantee you that your feet will be much happier in a pair of tennis shoes; you can even keep wearing your coveted Jack Rogers--the weather allows it. I don’t even want to think about how sweaty your little piggies get while trapped inside “the boots with the fur.” There’s not enough Gold Bond in this world to cover up that stench. How insane would someone look if they were wearing flip-flops in Michigan in the middle of February? Well, frankly – that is exactly how you look when you perform the opposite here in South Carolina.

I understand that most of you think you look so cute in your Ugg boots, and that may be the case in normal circumstances. However, when you decide to wear your boots in this climate, the cuteness factor of the shoes disappears immediately. It’s similar to those guys who wear their sunglasses around their necks while hanging out in Five Points on a Thursday night. Sure, normally your Costa del Mars look super duper cool, but really not that cool when you’re wearing them at night.

There is a time and place for everything, and now is definitely not the time to be wearing your Uggs. Wait until it gets cold. People will still laugh at how ridiculous you look in the boots, but at least they will appreciate that you chose the right season to wear them.