Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 22, 2023

Brilliant!

Calvin has galoshes and from him, we know that the name is onomatopoetic.

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Seem to remember rubbers are low quarters while galoshes are ankle or mid-calf high and Wellies are knee high. Beyond that, mud wins.

Dignification is the name of the game.

You have to be careful with sizes when buying rubbers. They’re all marketed as XL.

How about “Overshoes”? Simple and basic, to the point, and not weird or objectionable.

I think the guy in the last frame proved him wrong.

I bought knee-high insulated snake boots for snow shoveling weather. In six winters I have seen too little snow to wear them. I wore them once to make sure they fit well.

Now I’m going to have this stuck in my head all day:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uuCNAwXGaQ

Gum Boots?

I always liked the word galoshes, along with other words from my youth like bumbershoot, and babushka.

My dad had a pair of lace up boots he called high-cuts.

A Wellington is also a dress boot (hated mine, thin sole, no support, only taken out for mess dinners)

Nice one with the “Xtra Toughs!” AKA “Kodiak Sneakers”…

I like my Muck Boots, although technically that is a brand name. But the name fits.

The first three are worn as a boot. Goloshes/overshoes are worn over a shoe. Yes, the first three are more dignified.

“Rubbers” were the low-top pull-ons that just covered your shoe.

We just called them “boots,” because who had money for extras like dressy boots or cowboy boots? And they had these clunky metal clasps running up the front. Wellies have no clasps.

Rubbers is another name for condoms!

Oh to be at the age where “rubbers” are an innocent name.

If I were in charge they would be called, “ga-sloshes.”

After several seasons of O’Leary and Minogue I don’t respect the name “Wellington”.

We just called them snow boots.

On my Pilgrimage though Frazz, starting 2001-04-02 in gocomics, I am now in 2022-01-01 What a wonderful trip it has been. Even the comics I have seen twice are still some of the greatest in the history of cartooning for me. Thank you Jef. I don’t know how you do it—But mighty glad you do. Great comic strip. Great Cartooning art

Do they still make 5-buckle galoshes? That was a big thing when I was in elementary school.

Does anyone actually wear those anymore? Down here you can’t get boys to not wear shorts even if it’s below freezing outside.