What is all the fuss about ugg boots?

Ugg boots/sheepskin boots were made in Australia for over 200 years, but made popular around the world by Pamela Anderson, who started wearing ugg boots acquired in Australia to keep her legs warm between takes for the television show Baywatch, and it was this, that may well have originally spurred interest in these boots in America. Since 2003, these boots have become very fashionable in the U.S., partly due to marketing by an American company, Ugg Australia, a branch of Deckers Outdoor Corporation. Brian Smith created the Ugg Australia brand in the U.S., importing them to the U.S. in the late seventies. He sold the company to Deckers Outdoors in 1995. Actress Kate Hudson wore a pair of ugg boots on the poster for the mid-2004 movie Raising Helen. They were associated also with the Anglo-American actress Sienna Miller (c2003-5). The sheepskin footwear is now a major category in most U.S. department stores and retail shoe stores (Source: Wikipedia). Other celebrities, wearing ugg boots, include Gwyneth Paltrow, Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson, Leonardo DeCaprio and the entire Spielberg family.