Nancy Sinatra had no idea.....

Nancy Sinatra may have "boots made for walking," but with the rains never ceasing in Shanghai for the past two weeks…boots for walking just ain't cutting it. 

We need boots for sloshing...rubber rain boots. Sexy ones. Ones that you can wear for both home and office.

So on the weekend, I made it my mission to find the perfect pair. I was looking for a shop where I could buy a pair of rubber rain boots. Not just ordinary black rubbers for running around mud puddles and feeding the farm animals. No. I wanted to find something a bit more unusual.

And Shanghai shopping did not let me down. There is an awesome shop called SALT on the corner of Yongjia Lu.

It's actually a gift shop with lots of cool knicknacks, but it also has a great selection of about 40 different types of funky rain boots: some with platform heels, some with buckles, flower print, high fashion, functional, but completely delightful and in all sizes for women up to size 41.

Right now everything is half price, so I picked up a pair of boots for 150 RMB. This same pair of boots, my colleague saw in San Francisco for $60 US. The woman who runs the shop has it as a labor of love, but she will also order in boots for you.




SALT, Shop 14, 36 Yongjia Lu, French Concession near Shaanxi Nan Lu
永嘉路36-14
近陕西南路
Phone:
5404-2526

Ah, well, you can have sexy rain boots, but that doesn't make you any less of a dork...if you a really are a serious dork.
 

Photos by David Perry. Both sets of boots were purchased at Salt.