Vox Hunt: Puddle Protectors

With colder weather comes rain, sleet, and snow. Show us how you're going to keep your feet toasty warm and dry all winter long.

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I own these. I call them my dog-walking boots.

In Chicago you have to have waterproof--not water resistant and there's no point in going for fashion when you are slogging through, snow, ice, sleet, and slush. It does not rain here in the winter.

I wanted to get some authentic Canadian mukluks but I couldn't find any that were not made of a dead animal and were waterproof. Actually, I got stuck at the "not made of a dead animal" part.

Another plea to be more inclusive: I'm not worldly-wise but simply from reading blogs from the Australians I can say that they will not need their feet to be "toasty warm" when they are out enjoying beach or pool weather when much of the US is having winter weather.

Even within the United States,  people in areas with large populations like Florida and Southern California and other areas like Arizona do not wear "traditional" winter wear unless they travel someplace away from where they reside.

Just one more thing, many of the Vox Hunt and QotD's have a very San Francisco slant to them. San Francisco, I can state unequivocally as I'm quite familiar with the area, is not typical in most every way of a United States city. In many ways it is better--but it is a poor pool from which to base your QotD's and Vox Hunt's on.

Suggestion: Have the questions include a flip side like the one above could be something like "blah, blah, blah all winter long and conversely for those folks enjoying other major climate changes what will you be wearing in place of what you've been wearing previously?"

It's simply polite to be inclusive--and bad manners, not to mention bad geography to act as if the whole world =  The United States of America.