My wife came home with a pair that cost $220. I looked at them and immediately noticed the "Made In China" on the tag! Are you kidding me! All these years watching women (and some men?) spend all this money on these things and they turn out to be china junk. I was always under the impression they were hand made in Australia. Well they never were. It's an american company doing what most american companies do; having crap made in china and selling to foolish fellow americans for exorbitant amounts of their hard earned money. The best part is they have done such a good job marketing that I just walked the office and every single person I asked thought the same thing, a high quality hand made Australian product. Shame on them!!! Boy I bet there have been a lot of pissed off Australians.

I have been buying high quality shoes for years as I use to spend 10-14 hour days on my feet, sometime longer. Plus walking 10-20 miles in that time. I worked in law enforcement, as a first responder and search and rescue. Good shoes were important and I can tell you I have never found a pair of china made shoes or boots that were both comfortable and durable. I do wear some china made shoes but only casual, and I would never pay more than $100 for any shoe made there, most are not even worth that. Even if I thought it was quality I know the manufacturing cost was way below the retail price.

A brief online search found a number of authentic ugg style boots that are actually hand made in Australia with actual Australian sheepskin. The best part is none of them cost any more than their overhyped china made counterparts, some less. And some like the EMU's are readily available right here in the USA. I got my wife a pair and she loves them.

I pay over $200 for fine hand crafted USA made boots like Danner's. But these thing will last for many, many years and once broken in become part of your body. I can wear them hard for five+ years and send them to Danner to be reconditioned. They come back looking like new with new laces, liners, etc. The only difference is they are still my old broken-in super comfortable, durable boot. I only hope we don't lose the last few of our great shoe makers here.