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ugg since 1974

As a born and bred Lower East Sider I have dedicated the last 25 years of my life to trashing on anything considered basic. As a shit fucker East Village dwelling teenager, one of the most basic things I could think of was living in Brooklyn. I bitched every time I had to go to parties there, was an actual shithead when I had to visit friends there, and only began venturing out to Williamsburg on purpose at 17 when I started fucking a New Hampshire transplant who lived on Kent Ave and worked as a freelance photographer. Though fear not, upon receiving my prefrontal cortex this past August, I have become less of an asshole. When I dropped out of SUNY Purchase in 2017 and moved back home after a year of absolute hell on earth, my parents threw me out of their nest on 9th street and I was forced to move somewhere more affordable (lol) Brooklyn. I worked in a dingy neon sign shop, wore carhart overalls un-ironically and wanted to cease to exist. Visiting home was now a pilgrimage and Brooklyn felt like the suburb where I would inevitably rot and crumble and become irrelevant. Another thing that I decided was basic as a fucky fucker teen was wearing Uggs. I essentially popped out of my mother’s womb on 33rd and 1st the summer of 98’ scoffing at girls stomping around like uncoordinated puppies in their fluffy boots and leggings, calling them all gentrifiers and cunts. I have been clean from East Village living for 7 years now, and have not only become a Brooklyn lover (“it just feels so GOOD to go HOME to BROOKLYN”) but have also become the biggest Ugg stan of them all and I will tell you why. It is not because y2k style is trending, or because I’ve become a basic bitch now that I spend more time in Williamsburg than I’d like to admit, but it’s because they’re really fucking cozy and New York winter sucks. And I have a prefrontal cortex now so I am no longer slinging the motto “Fashion has no temperature”. In the past 7 years I’ve gone from a cold hard LES girlie snorting mystery drugs off sticky surfaces at Happy Endings (iykyk) to filling my cozy Brooklyn apartment with fluffy stuff and men who work in tech. (Don’t get me wrong, I still snort mystery drugs off of sticky surfaces, I just test them for fentanyl first, buy them with tech money that’s not mine and go into the inevitable morning after depression on a sheepskin adorned couch in Brooklyn) SO, given that I am a (mostly) changed woman now, I‘ll give you the tea on Ugg. If you buy your Uggs from Ugg they are not really Uggs anymore. The company was sold and they are made in China now. The sheepskin is shit, the quality is bad and the company is literally just creating fast fashion SHITCRAP. If you want a good pair of Uggs the original manufacturer is still hand making them to order (yes, made to order, sustainable girlies we love that) in Australia. They are just doing it under the name Ugg Since 1974, which is such a slay. I have a pair of the bomber boots and they are actually snow proof because they’re water resistant (which in girl math means water proof) and I wear them every day. Even when I go visit my little brother in the East Village (who later inherited my parents rent controlled apartment and became far cooler than I’ll ever be which is not fucking fair at all but thats a different story). Rant over- go get yourself some Uggs, its cold out there. Xx Liv

@bylivhandmade

Jan 21, 2024

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Hard-soled ugg boots

I didn’t even know they made Ugg boots in this style.

@salad_valet

Feb 19, 2025

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boots

i rarely wear shoes anymore that aren't boots. even my sneakers are high tops. boots have ankle support, hide thick wool socks underneath, and have huge amounts of swag. i wear them for work and i wear them for leisure. i wear them taking long walks in all weather conditions. when someone doesn't understand Boots i know i have been confronted with a fake walker, someone who is chauffeured through life and does not know the pleasures of prolonged standing

@visceralscenery

Jan 30, 2024

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Changing hair a lot

I am a girl who changes her hair a lot. I hadn’t been that kind of girl though, but now I am. I think that mood, artistry and life itself really informs my perspective on my personal self image and perception of beauty, so I’m always looking to appear differently or uniquely, or as a somewhat different version of myself. Hair to me, is the biggest tool and canvas in how to change one’s appearance - even more so than makeup. In 2019 there was a point where I bleached literally my entire scalp and eyebrows (as a lot of people are now doing in this present day)… My hair was in twists, and so I looked like this character from a cartoon or anime in a majestic way. Yassified Super Saiyan! I’d still been a highschooler then, and that was the most free I’d ever felt with my image up to that point. To me, that was a real testament to the power of hair. From that point on my life became a pipeline from wigs to eventually protective hairstyles and I lived for every second of it. I still do!

@aaron-rose

Apr 10, 2023

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Europe

Traveling as a disabled person is really quite daunting for a lot of reasons, mostly because of accessibility versus inaccessibility in countries outside of the US (most of the US itself outside of NYC is painfully inaccessible). Last year during fashion month in September was my first time traveling to Europe – I went to Milan with my dad and my agent and I had like, the absolute best time ever. Much to my surprise. I love Europe! I know every country has its nuances and its things going on that’s really important to actually understanding that country, but just to have a pleasant experience in terms of being a physically disabled trans woman who is Black in a new country like that, was really relieving and exhilarating. I even made a dear friend who is a fellow trans woman while being in Milan for that time. The Duomo was extremely lively, and I found out that I really like aperol spritzes and gelato. Their pasta is also simply elite. I hope this isn’t controversial to say in any way but I love England just as much as well! I have been able to be there the past two months for some very special experiences - included being able to speak and debate at the Oxford Union, at Oxford University! Everyone has been incredibly sweet and I love my modeling agency and my agents out there. I really love chips. Completely obsessed with chips… and I really enjoyed going to the Tate for the first time with my best friend and his boyfriend!

@aaron-rose

Apr 10, 2023

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The MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art is my all time favorite museum in the city and has been for as long as I can remember. That says a lot & holds a lot of weight because I’ve been going there and admiring it all since I was about 12 years old. I’d been a part of an extracurricular program for children with disabilities where I was there as a kid to immerse myself in all the different types of art that they had to offer. This was immeasurable for me as a young artist, and a disabled artist at that. That experience was my introduction to the MoMA, and since then I’d been hooked - for lack of better words. As a now 21 going on 22-year-old (by the time this comes out I’ll be 22), it is in my opinion, the most communal of all the museums in the city. You can be ratchet and free with your friends within the walls of the MoMA and enjoy and learn about any type of art or anything related to art there, and that’s literally just what is - you just kind of lose yourself there til doors close at 5:30.

@aaron-rose

Apr 10, 2023