What has two eyes, green skin, and kept your feet dry when you were a child? Anyone born in the 1980s will recall that whenever the heavens opened, off came the Dunlops and out came a pair of anthropomorphised, amphibious wellington boots. Now, almost forty years later, they’re back.
Made by Wellipets, a British brand that launched in 1983 and until recently had closed down, this month they were the talk of Milan fashion week when models in the JW Anderson show glided down the catwalk in shrunken pants, leather trenches and frog-faced mules made by the Wellipets team in Milan. The “crogs” – as one fashion insider called them – came in blue, yellow or traditional batrachian green.
