Yes, it’s welly time.
It’s been a bit footwear heavy around here recently, but what can I say. I like shoes.
I have a pair of wellies, they are green, boring, and bought in a panic just before VaG in 2010. I always thought of wellies as something you only wore to tramp through muddy fields, but increasingly I’m seeing people wearing them in the City. If you think about it they make sense. When it rains, they protect not only your feet, but your legs from muddy splashes, meaning you arrive at your destination dry and clean. A novelty!
I still bemoan the fact that you can no longer really buy over shoes like you see in the 40s and 50s, but with some of the fabulous wellies around it’s not too much trauma to pop your shoes in a bag for life. I think little ankle or calf length boots are ideal for city wear. They keep your feet dry, pop easily in a bag when it’s not raining, and have a cute vintagey look.
These are my picks for some stylish but dry vintage inspired wet weather wear
Dale Low Chelsea Wellie £25 Topshop
The lowest priced I found. Chelsea boots carry an association with the mod movement that makes these perfect for those that like a bit of 60s style.
Spats Boots £37.99 The Welly Shop
A bit of spivvy 1920s style in a welly boot.
Mel by Melissa Red Bow Ankle Boot £37.99 New Look
A cheaper version of those Melissa Anglomania boots that I lust after every year.
Vivienne Westwood Anglomania + Melissa Ankle Boot £96 Sarenza
And the full price version.
Earlham wedge ankle boot £145 Hunter
The ultimate in glamorous wellies. Wedge heel, shearling cuff, and from Hunter.
Comments
9 responses to “Vintage Inspired Wet Weather Wellies”
Lovely selection, I just wear my Docs in winter, but its a pain to change in and out of, especially when flying.
Those Earlham Wedge Ankle Boots are to die for! I LOVE them and will daydream about them today!!
I don’t know if you can get Viking rain boots in UK, but they have reproduction boots, the original is from 1939. I love my pair, stylish, neat and practical:
http://www.brandos.se/viking/grace-lo-1-274-2-black/a3645
I can’t stand those Mel boots….is it just me?!
LOVE the really expensive Earlham wedge ones tho!
I have Matalan spotty wellies but I’ve never worn them….must never go anywhere wet or muddy enough it would seem.
Latest find in Primark are some flat lace up ankle boots, granny style, with the furry cuff top, only £15!
Oh yes, over here in Chicago we have loads of wet and mucky weather, so wellies of some kind are a must for us too sadly. Lots of girls where them here. I have a knee high pair that are really just overkill, so I’ve been eyeing a shorter pair myself, including those Mel ones with the bow. Those Hunter wedges are pretty fabulous, though a ‘practical heel’ (or none) for inclement weather seems to make more sense to me.
I think of wellies as the footwear of impunity. I just want to be free….and haphazardly glamorous. 😉
When I lived in Vancouver, Canada where it rains 8 months of the year…I had some chocolate rain boots. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t march through while wearing them. It was super liberating.
I don’t like the Mels either but I do very much like the look of the Spats.
I love a bit of welly-wearing when the weather is bad – makes for perfect puddle-splashing attire 🙂
The Melissa and Mel boots are very, very much like Mary Quant’s rubber ankle boots from her 1960s Quant Afoot range.
Ooo, just what I needed! Our very first rainstorm of the season is going on outside my window as I type this, and I’d been hunting for the perfect vintage-y boots for the wet weather. I’m glad that reading your back archives is paying off! I do love your blog, I don’t know what took me so long to find it.