Fashion for Your Feet: Legs, Meet Hugrz

This is not your average product review.

I won't copy paste some press release business– I will tell you honest stories about my experience with Hugrz boot covers. Because I'm real like that, y'all.

Hugrz look a little something like leg warmers, but they are meant to add pizzazz to your otherwise plain winter footwear. As a person living in Whistler, I can tell you what my not-on-the-mountain winter footwear consists of:

• Snow boots (even when I'm wearing dress pants)
• Uggs (yes, they're outdated, yes, they look like pancakes, and YES I WILL NEVER STOP WEARING THEM– get over it).
• Rain boots (when it is unseasonably, terribly warm and wet)

I will acknowledge that none of these items are particularly fashionable, so I was more than happy to dress them up a little bit with Hugrz.

Hugrz come in 21 different styles: I tried two. Two vastly different ones.

Meet the first, the Classic Black Fair Isle:

I like these. They look like little ski sweaters and they are black/grey/white (which are easy colours for me to work with). Here is how the Hugrz website shows them being worn:

I embraced my Fair Isle Hugrz warmly. I wore them to and fro' yoga. I wore them to get groceries, to my friends' homes, and while meandering the Village. I even wore them as plain old leg warmers at home because I thought they looked sweet. Here are some pictures of my legs wearing them:

Okay. So that was the first pair. Easy-to-wear, subtle, but moutain-cabin-y cute. These guys have earned their way into my regular clothing rotation. I approve!

Now, the second: The Rabbit

Dang! Despite the name, the rabbit is not real rabbit (they don't use real animal fur at all for any of their products). But I have to admit, my first thought was that there was NO way I could pull these puppies– er, bunnies– off.

As evidenced by the photos below, I knew that the rabbits had potential. I just wasn't sure my non-fashiony legs in my non-fashiony ski resort town were the potential they needed.

So, I called in for back-up.

Meet Catherine. Not only is Catherine the babe of all babes, but has the ability to pull off ANYTHING, and I mean anything.

Catherine had hesitations. Hailing from Vancouver, she could see herself wearing them around the city– to a friend's house, to run errands, to grab a coffee. But even fearless Catherine felt like they might stick out a little too much in Whistler. In her words, she was afraid to look like "a citygirl d-bag in Whistler".

But Catherine prevailed. She wore them during apres, and said that they made her feel a little more put together in her post-mountain base layer. She wore them through the Village, saying they kept her ankles warm and toasty. She even wore them to the bar, despite fears that people would spill drinks on them. FOUR boys tried to pick her up that night.

I was seriously inspired by Catherine and decided that I, too, could pull off the rabbits. So I did. I wore them out to a friend's farewell affair, I wore them to a bar, and I wore them to a comedy show. At the start of the evening, everything felt very flamboyant in the lower leg area. I went out of my way to explain them to people (because I could feel everyone staring at them even though my legs were under a table).

As the night wore on, I became more confident in my footwear. I even pulled put my best part-time model pose to show the world how cool I could be: