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Ugg boots, or simply uggs, are a generic term for a type of sheepskin boot popular in Australia and New Zealand. (The term allegedly comes from the way the boot "'hugs" the foot and leg.) They are cheap and warm footwear, which have been adopted by social group such as bogans, westies and bevans as an acceptable for of footwear to be worn in public. Most other Australians reserve the the use of ugg boots for around the house, or at the most small trips no further than the local corner shop.
Although many popular Australian actors have probably worn ugg boots in private at some point, it was a Canadian, Pamela Anderson, who started wearing ugg boots acquired in Australia to keep her legs warm between takes for the television show Baywatch, and it was this that may well have originally spurred interest in these boots in America.
Currently these boots are very fashionable, partly due to marketing by an American company, Ugg Australia (i.e. Deckers Outdoor Corporation) which in the US has managed to appropriate the term ugg boot as an registered trademark. (Their boots are made in China.) So whether or not boots are branded "ugg boots", as long as they are made of sheepskin they are still real ugg boots.
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