What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

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Anonymous wrote:I used to live in Ithaca, NY People just wore sneakers, uggs or Dr. Martens.

Nobody would wear boots with spikes to go to class, that would be ridiculous.

True fact! There were no Uggs when I was in school but sneakers and doc Martens. Pathways were always well plowed/shoveled on campus.

I think its worse for city students who live off campus in Boston. People don't shovel well and it gets icy. I speak from experience there too!

How old are you? I am 55 and we all wore Uggs in high school in the 80s.

I'm 53, I literally have no recollection of Uggs! Maybe they weren't a thing where I lived...or I'm clueless (always a possibility!)

Nobody in DC was wearing UGGs in the 80s

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to live in Ithaca, NY People just wore sneakers, uggs or Dr. Martens.

Nobody would wear boots with spikes to go to class, that would be ridiculous.

True fact! There were no Uggs when I was in school but sneakers and doc Martens. Pathways were always well plowed/shoveled on campus.

I think its worse for city students who live off campus in Boston. People don't shovel well and it gets icy. I speak from experience there too!

How old are you? I am 55 and we all wore Uggs in high school in the 80s.

I'm 53, I literally have no recollection of Uggs! Maybe they weren't a thing where I lived...or I'm clueless (always a possibility!)

Nobody in DC was wearing UGGs in the 80s

Makes sense. Probably an east coast/west coast thing. I lived in California and we wore them in high school. Class of 87.

[Anonymous]

Bean gumshoes for wet or slushy weather. Taller Bean boots for actual snow or such.

For ice rather than for snow, only metal crampons work well for traction, but college students don't bother with them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to live in Ithaca, NY People just wore sneakers, uggs or Dr. Martens.

Nobody would wear boots with spikes to go to class, that would be ridiculous.

True fact! There were no Uggs when I was in school but sneakers and doc Martens. Pathways were always well plowed/shoveled on campus.

I think its worse for city students who live off campus in Boston. People don't shovel well and it gets icy. I speak from experience there too!

How old are you? I am 55 and we all wore Uggs in high school in the 80s.

I'm 53, I literally have no recollection of Uggs! Maybe they weren't a thing where I lived...or I'm clueless (always a possibility!)

Nobody in DC was wearing UGGs in the 80s

No one on the east coast was wearing UGGs in the 80s. Graduated from NJ high school in ‘84 and Massachusetts college in ‘88. Everyone wore LLBean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First year for kid at a full-time snowy school in New England and I need to buy them boots.
I was thinking that pull on boots would be best?
But most are not ranked high for traction.

Do they wear the extra gripper spikes?

Thanks!

Uggs, but the snow boot kind not the fashion kind. No extra spikes, I offered, kid said no.

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Sorel

[Anonymous]

My kid has LL Bean waterproof hiking boots that he wears for winter weather in NE. Also, a school known to be snowy will have good systems in place for clearing snow on sidewalks. My kid’s campus gets a decent amount of snow but he says sidewalks are always in good shape (though he has an 8am class across campus this semester and was just saying today he might find out how early the snow clearing happens).

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New England is not a state. Maine, northern New Hampshire and Vermont you can count on snow. Only certain parts of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island get snow that stays. Boston not so much but every five years or so there’s a real blizzard.

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Mine is in the snowy Midwest and didn't want snow boots. She wears the fur lined Doc Martens with good socks.

[Anonymous]

I’m 40 and went to college in a lake effect snow area. We’d get feet of snow at a time. So much snow. No one wore snow boots at college. Some girls have Uggs, but those aren’t any more snow appropriate than sneakers. College kids don’t care.

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Anonymous wrote:Boy or girl?

For a girl, give Bean boots, Sorels, Blundstones, Uggs or all four.

For a boy, you can buy them whatever you want. They’ll just keep wearing their sneakers and Crocs. Maybe if it’s really cold they’ll wear socks.

All four!

Never change, dcum.

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I noticed this too!
LOL

[Anonymous]

UGGs, Timberlands, and Rainboots.

http://www.nordstromrack.com/s/5025434

[Anonymous]

None. Both my kids are at snowy schools and neither one ever wore their boots — it was a big waste of money. The paths are plowed. My DD usually wore her flat-bottomed Uggs.

[Anonymous]

Same boots he wears on the farm in the summer.

[Anonymous]

Danner (Has a nice model that zips for ease. Arctic side zip)

Sorel

Blundstones (Cool factor but not as warm. Aussie boots)

If you go with LL Bean duck boots, order a size down. Those things are clodhoppers.