was walking around the Warehouse (supermarket that sells everything excluding food) today when i found these collection of gumboots for sale. small to large, black to yellow, plain to flowerful.

back at msia where i grew up, all i can remember about gumboots is that it was worn by mostly indonesian workers that toiled their days washing dishes behind big Chinese restaurants. and we surely dont call them gumboots - we call em' rubber boots.

but here in New Zealand, farmers wear em. rural folks wear em, its not strange to see a farmer walks into a rural pub and buys himself a beer in the evenings wearing gumbots full of mud! not to mention that handymen too wears them in the city. in a nutshell, they are everywhere.

even i bought myself a pair of gumboots when i was doing farm works at the south island. as local blokes day - it keeps the water out, and the smell in.

in fact, Fred Dagg - a character that portrays the most stereotypical Kiwi even wrote a song that celebrate Kiwis and their affair with gumboots. check this out.


Fred dagg is the guy singing - dressing in a very typical Kiwi bloke - black singlet, jeans, and of course - gumboots.


heres the song in full - with lyrics.