Imitation Ugg boots are damaging the feet of UK fashion victims

Dec. 8, 2010 - PRLog -- They have said that knock-off versions of the designer boots are crippling a generation of young women, 'literally breaking' their feet.

With just six months of wear women could saddle themselves with a lifetime of foot deformities, backache and pain in their feet.

And a phrase has even been coined for the gait of devoted wearers - the Ugg at bootro.com 'shuffle' - which describes the lopsided, pigeon-toed way in which cheap versions of the boots force women to walk.

Top brand Ugg Australia boots at bootro.com, which cost from £150, are worn by celebrities including Kate Moss and Cameron Diaz, sparking a craze for the flat, furry generic boots.

But low-cost imitations often provide inadequate foot support.

THE truism that women love nothing better than shopping for shoes is as full of holes as a pair of pre-shunned ugg boots at bootro.com. For many of us, shoe-shopping is a task performed only reluctantly and out of a sense of grinding duty (although in other respects, it is nothing at all like conceiving a second or subsequent child). For me, the experience ranks just a notch above cervical smear on my annual To Do (Or Die) list, and line ball with giving the griller lipo-suction and expressing the pug's anal sacs.

Shoes, for me, are a sore point and always have been. Partly it's that my feet are big. But mostly it's that they are square - or round, almost. A "non-standard" shape, anyhow, unless we're talking trotters.

And trust me, I'm not one of these women who claim to hate every body part and optional extra with which the good Lord has equipped me. I'm exceedingly fond of my ears, for example, which happen to be very stylish and small (compared with my feet anyhow). My nostrils are okay, too. In fact, there was a time in my life when I seriously considered becoming a nostril model, but there weren't enough openings.

To this day, I can't go past a shoe store without developing shin splints of the spirit. And it's not that I don't love beautiful shoes. I do. They just don't look good on my ears. And the ones that I can cantilever my feet into have all the charm and whimsy of a prosthetic limb. As far back as I can remember, I've ended up with the same, sensible styles. That's nothing to be ashamed of, but it's hard to kick ass in a pair of knitted booties.

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