EMUs New Water-Resistant Boots Make a Splash »

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I have nursed my faithful pair of tan sheepskin boots through three years of rain, visits to the snow and — since I live in southern California where we wear our boots for reasons of style over substance most days — blistering heat. And sadly, they are now of retirement age — long ago losing their shape, their sheen, their very high coolness factor sacrificed to the elements. And at the risk of sounding like someone who casts aside an old friend in favor of the new kid on the block, I am doing precisely that: UGGs, begone. Make room for my new EMUs, which have already passed the — get this — water test.

A sheepskin boot, warm and cozy on the inside and covered with the smoothest suede-like leather on God’s green Earth — and they are waterproof?? OK, water-resistant, but the company has submerged them in water and out they came looking good as new, which makes them waterproof in my book. Bring on the El Ninos. Mammoth Mountain ski area, here we come. The leather didn’t dry or crack. The color deepened, but in a weathery happy way. The shape kept. I’m sold.

Gallery: Emu Boots