Leg Warmers + Josephine + Grover

May I recommend

Fashionable footwear takes a back seat to an Ottawa winter. Effective treads against inches of ice; waterproof soles in the face of icy slush; thick lining to keep out the minus 20C temperatures - those are the things you care about.

Except… wouldn’t it be great to have all of that, plus look cute? I feel like I cracked it a couple of winters ago when I bought some adorable, minus 30C sneaker boots. They were very comfy for all of my walking, and did indeed look like a chic, urban sneaker while keeping me warm.

The fatal flaw of my adorbs boots, however was the ankle-to calf chasm. The snow drifts are deep near the mighty Ottawa River and once your perimeter has been breached by the white stuff, your foot will freeze no matter how functional your sneaker boots are.

The solution came from the far reaches of the 1980s, springing up somewhere from the depths of Flashdance, Jane Fonda’s aerobics and even Dorothy and Blanche on a particularly athletic day: Leg Warmers.