Talk:Wellington boot

I removed an advert for a little known (one google reference to it) music venue. The hyperlink was dead, suggesting the pub went out of business four years after it opened. Monk Bretton 22:40, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Does anyone know when the term "Wellington" started to be used? In Blackadder the episode featuring the Duke has a number of inevitable puns (e.g. "sleeping with a pair of Wellingtons" or "when a man soils a Wellington, he puts his foot in it") and I'm not sure if they're anachronistic or not. Timrollpickering 16:09, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I'm tightening up the text to make it flow better. The section at the beginning metions that the boots were made from leather and then later starts talking about the rubber boots. 81.56.139.182 20:17, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Wellies

Maybe there should be some sort of link to Billy Connolly's "Welly Boot Song"? Or was that the "musical venue" link that was removed?

Any one got any good links to Wellies Web sites to share with us all?

Timeline?

"Considered fashionable and foppish in the best circles, they remained the main fashion for men through the 1840s. In the 1950s they were more commonly made in the calf high version and in the 1960s they were both superseded by the ankle boot, except for riding." I assume 1850s/1860s were meant? -Ahruman 07:10, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Finland

No mention of Scandinavia when talking about rubber boots? At least here in Finland, just about everybody wears them when working on a farm, walking in a forest, etc. And no mention of Nokian Footwear?--Elmeri B. Suokirahvi 15:11, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Maybe it's just me but the whole article seems somewhat US/UK-focused. Pasi 00:21, 22 August 2006 (UTC)