January 5 - If It Weren't For Your Gumboots Where Would You Be?

Today's New Zealand  music pick celebrates the humble gumboot. This was one of the things that amazed me when I arrived in Korea. I hadn't been here long and the rainy season was launched, I discovered that gumboots could actually be a fashion item.

I grew up being familiar with gumboots like this, the foot wear of the working man, woman or child. Good for enumerable occasions, from milking (with Murry) to drinking a quiet cup of tea on the veranda at the end of a hard day.

Fashion Statement gumboots are not just at the 'other end of the stick' from these, they are in fact on a completely different stick!!!














Imagine these in a cow shed ... not entirely practical ...

... or these ...

... or any of this selection!

















Taihape - Gumboot City - 'World Famous in New Zealand' for being very cold in winter and great place to stop after you get through the desert road. (Brown Sugar Cafe - nom nom nom!) And, for its yearly Gumboot Tossing Championship. They honoured the humble gumboot by installing this sculpture ...

However the Gumboot Song pre-dates all the footware above, plain or fancy, life sized or giant, worn or tossed, because as they discovered long ago, 'If It Weren't For Your Gumboots Where Would You Be?'