Fashion has always been an integral part of society. There appears to be, with each successive generation, a certain trend in dressing that is socially accepted and attractive, described as "The in thing" Even underwear has not been spared when it comes to fashion with the "in thing" being g-strings as far as female underwear is concerned currently.

The problem occurs when tries to blend safety clothing and fashion. In a lot of industries, it is required that you wear clothes that will prevent injuries occurring to you while on the job. These clothes are specially designed and referred to collectively as protective clothing. Examples include rubber gloves for your hands and goggles for your eyes. Wellingtons, popularly known as were also initially designed for protective purposes while on the job.

Wellies are used in numerous industries, some of which include fire-fighting, hunting, construction and in electrical workshops just to mention a few. Due to the different industrial safety demands, the designs of also differ so as to cater for the need of each specific protective purpose. Differences may be in the form of soles thickness, quantity of rubber or plastic used to manufacture the wellies, presence or absence of a steel cap and length of the wellie. For fire-fighting wellies for example, the wellies will have to be of full length, more or less at knee height and thick soles are also necessary.

It is interesting to note the various colours that come in nowadays in contrast to the orthodox pure black or pure white wellies. These days? wellies can come in almost any colour you can think of such as pink, red, orange green and blue. This makes it so much easier to match whatever colour of clothes you wish to wear. Designers have even taken a step further to now have a pattern of colours on the wellies so you can now have camouflage wellies, polka dot wellies, zebra striped wellies and a whole range of other patterns. Now you can go to work and be mistaken for going to a fashion show!

Indeed, the designers of these safety boots have realised the importance of fashion in society and incorporated it into these boots while still realising the safety needs. Now you can even wear your wellies just for the fun of it!