If only this trend had come a year earlier.

If I have to see one more pair of leggings stuffed into a pair of Ugg boots trotting around campus next Fall and Winter, I’m going to implode. And with any luck, any remaining Uggs and their leggings counterparts will be sucked in, and wiped off the face of the University of Michigan forever (or at least until this tired trend becomes, like, vintage or something ten years from now).

Miuccia Prada has presented a solution in his Fall 2009 collection for all your Wolverine gals out there with an apparent disdain for real pants: thigh-high boots which practically double as pants.

Fresh off the London runways last week was this glimmer of hope which we at SHEI Magazine enthusiastically dub as an alternative the Uggleggo combo in the coming Fall and Winter seasons. Pair these waders with an on-the-longer side sweater or tee, and be proud to call yourself an active member of the University of Michigan Anti-Uggleggo Campaign.

Perhaps we could conduct some sort of joint effort with the organizers of tightsarenotpants.com? But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Small steps. Small, thigh-high boot steps.