We pause today to remember one of 2004's most striking, if profoundly stupid, fashions: The Ugg Boot.
Uggs of improbable colors were found in the snowy cities of Boston and Minneapolis, as well as on the the scorching and sunbleached streets of Miami and Los Angeles, as women across the continent both ignored well-accepted tenets of color matching and literally sweated in order to be "hip."
No more.
No matter how absurd, we knew that this, like all other fads, would pass and that its drawing power would slide and then accelerate down the socioeconomic ladder until they are hawked without shame inside gun shops, both figuratively and literally.
Farewell, Uggs. Take your place proudly next to Ashton Kutcher's trucker hat and Hank's Village People costumes as fashion statements whose past allure will baffle tomorrow's trend-setters.
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