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<p>Oh yeah. Go look at Target.com. Search rainboots. They are wildly cute. I sent the blue dots ones to D:). She was NOT ok at Princeton in tennis shoes…</p>

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<p>Yep. Target.com is where it’s at for rain boots!</p>

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<p>I sent my d the light and dark blue striped ones from Target…Carolina blue of course. :)</p>

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<p>I feel like I’ve fallen into some alternate universe. Boots come from REI or Campmor, and have Vibram, Goretex and Thinsulate. What are you all talking about?</p>

<p>Signed,</p>

<p>Confused Father of Boys</p>

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<p>Those Target boots are really cute! Dang, and we spent $$$$ on rainboots!</p>

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<p>WashDad. We are OK with Goretex. As long as it is super-cute blue polka-dotted Goretex.</p>

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<p>From what I can tell, WashDad, this is what these women consider winter boots: </p>

<p><a href=“http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.impawards.com/1990/posters/pretty_woman.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.impawards.com/1990/pretty_woman.html&h=755&w=535&sz=68&hl=en&start=14&tbnid=RVaBy5bRA4NSzM:&tbnh=142&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djulia%2Broberts%2Bpretty%2Bwoman%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3DHPIA,HPIA:2005-17,HPIA:en%26sa%3DN[/url]”>http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.impawards.com/1990/posters/pretty_woman.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.impawards.com/1990/pretty_woman.html&h=755&w=535&sz=68&hl=en&start=14&tbnid=RVaBy5bRA4NSzM:&tbnh=142&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djulia%2Broberts%2Bpretty%2Bwoman%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3DHPIA,HPIA:2005-17,HPIA:en%26sa%3DN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Do your daughters a favor and buy them some of those L.L. Bean boots that are rubber around the foot and leather above. They are comfortable and very dry. Even the ones that are insulated aren’t TOO warm. They are walking across campus, not across Alaska.</p>

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<p>God no. Hate high heels in slippery conditions. Hate them all the time, actually, just required for work.</p>

<p>And L.L. Bean is way not cool, if your D is in to cool:).</p>

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<p>Youll notice she was unmarried at the time-
once we worry more about performance
[In Seattle we wear these](<a href=“http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/2255869/c/24174.html”>http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/2255869/c/24174.html&lt;/a&gt;)</p>

<p>Although I don’t own rainboots and I haven’t opened my umbrella for months</p>

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<p>Mine aren’t TNF, but Kity has the right idea. </p>

<p>Umbrella? What’s an umbrella?</p>

<p>Come to think of it, tonight I wouldn’t mind mountaineering boots with crampons attached. Twenty degrees F and an inch of ice/frozen snow on everything. I stayed home today and worked in the dining room, watching cars sliding and spinning on the road below our house. I could really get used to working at home. (The kids just found out that they get another snow day tomorrow. Woo hoo! And the weather guesses are saying up to six more inches of snow tomorrow night.)</p>

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<p>Boots? Definitely buy them in the college town, and before the year ends. Like Weenie’s kids, my son hasn’t worn them in years, even for shoveling the driveway. Told him to take his winter jacket last weekend, he wouldn’t, maybe he will in mid January… BTW- how did Seattle get the snow when we had 50’s for Monday Night Football (the first half was good…)???</p>

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<p>Sierra Trading Post, REI, and Campmor will have a good selection online. </p>

<p>Sorel’s are traditional (both the pac-boot style and the cute nylon top pull on style) and well priced at Walmart. Sorel’s, in fact, draw many non-Walmart types into the store.
<a href=“http://www.sorel.com/default.aspx[/url]”>http://www.sorel.com/default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Duck boots from L.L. Bean are common in the East, though no longer de rigueur among the preppy set.</p>