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Wednesday 9 November 2005

save the ugg!


I am a great lover of the good old Aussie icon - the ugg boot. It had recently come to my attention that an American company Decker Holdings registered the name Ugh-Boot and are now attempting to stop Australian manufacturers and American importers from using the name. But this name has been a generic term for sheepskin boots in Australia since World War I!

So let's band together to help bring the term back to the public domain, so that the same family companies which have been producing the fantastic sheepskin boots for over eighty years can go on doing so at a reasonable retail price and under the generic name of Ugg! Click on the below website for more info...

http://www.saveouraussieicon.com