Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:55     Subject: What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

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!)
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:52     Subject: What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

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.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:35     Subject: What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

My kid adores his sneakers, but loves the
Oboz I got him for christmas last year. He's in Cleveland with a good amount of lake effect snow.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:34     Subject: What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

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.

Where did you go to high school? Uggs were sold in surf shops in California in the 80s. They didn’t hit the big market until the 90s.
-58 year old
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:33     Subject: What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

Uggs Adirondack.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:32     Subject: What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

Timberlands
Bogs
UGG's with Gore-Tex
The North Face waterproof Siennas
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:31     Subject: What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

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.

dp.. I guess I was never in the know then. I'm 55, grew up in CA, and have never heard of uggs until I was an adult.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:30     Subject: What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

Blundstones.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:28     Subject: What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

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.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:26     Subject: What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

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.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:18     Subject: Re:What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

Anonymous wrote:Sperry duck boots- male


^ not sure if he ever wore them. They did get some snow. Rhode Island
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:17     Subject: Re:What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

Sperry duck boots- male
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 15:08     Subject: Re:What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

Anonymous wrote:DCUM never disappoints. There’s one thread with a parent asking for Christmas gift ideas for their high school senior to help prepare for college. And here on this thread is a parent who is just realizing on November 30 that their kid goes to college
in New England and has no boots.


It's New Englanders saying they and kids students wear crocs and other shoes, not necessarily snow boots. They think they are so tuff
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 14:46     Subject: What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

Get them a pair of Gore-Tex trail runners. They won’t be trudging through any appreciable snow.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2025 14:44     Subject: What boots does your snowy weather college kid have?

Bean boots or sorel.