The origins of the ugg boot style
lycra catsuitare disputed, with both Australia and New Zealand claiming to have been the origin of the footwear. Sheepskin boots were known in rural Australia during the 1920s. While it is not clear when manufacturing started, by 1933 ugg boots were being manufactured by Blue Mountains Ugg Boots, and
zentai suit WhiteMortels Sheepskin Factory was making the boots from the late 1950s.In regard to naming, it appears that ugg boots, ugh boots and ug boots have been used as generic terms for sheepskin boots in Australia and New Zealand since at least the 1970s, although individual accounts have suggested that the terms (or variations thereof) were employed earlier – for example, “fug boots” were worn by pilots during World War I.The 1970s saw
zentai Goldthe emergence of advertising using the names, but Brian Smith has stated that the boots were referred to as “uggs” long before the word was trademarked. Frank Mortel of Mortels Skeepskin Factory claims he named them “ugg boots” in 1958, when Mortels started production, after his wife commented that the first pair he made were “ugly.
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