Tiffany Shute ’10 Where did you get your boots? Filene’s Basement What do you wear with them? Black skinny jeans, a button up shirt and a black blazer. What is the most you will spend on a pair of boots? $150 because I’m on a budget. I don’t have a minimum.

1500s Spanish vaqueros bring “cowboy” boots to America 1600s Santa is portrayed wearing dark boots and a matching hat 1700s German Hessian boots become popular among American civilians 1800 Jacques Louis David paints Napoeleon Bonaparte in di-color Hessians 1820s 1st Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, coins the term Wellington boots or “wellies” 1837 Charles Goodyear discovers rubber and makes Queen Victoria a pair of rubber soled boots 1840 Chelsea boots become popular.

Booties The most important aspect of this season’s ankle booties is to make them the focus of your outfit. Combine them with a pair of tight skinny jeans and a loose fitted casual sweater for day to day wear. Depending on whether your booties are flats or heels, play around with them using leggings and tights if you are combining them with dresses.

Attention! Boots are no longer just for equestrians and fly-fishermen. The world has adopted boots as fast as Brad and Angelina adopt their kids. On the runway, at the VMA’s, in Gossip Girl and at Mount Holyoke boots have walked—more like run—onto the scene.

Monday morning, first-years awoke to newspaper-sealed doors, heaps of candy, poster-laden walls, and other such novelties. Elfing had officially begun.

The tradition began in 1966, after the ’66 cohorts survived a brutal and obnoxious Hazing Day. Their resentment toward the tradition of hazing incoming students led the class of ’66 to develop a new, more PG, more welcoming ritual.

On Tuesday evening, Mount Holyoke hosted this year’s Common Read author, Anne Fadiman. Fadiman defines herself as an “edge species,” one who coexists at the point in which two cultures come together. During her lecture, she depicted the emotionally tumultuous experience of moving between two cultures-the Hmong and the medicinal cultures.