Thanks. One of my favorite fashion websites is extrapetite.com. She has several reviews of Hunter rain boots for short people and apparently different Hunter boots come in different heights. (I, and both my DILs, are short people.)
It’s on my kiddo’s xmas list and she sent me this link.
FWIW - She is size 6 but asked for size 7 for this shoes.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DVPTNQH/ref=twister_B015T6QWEM?_encoding=UTF8&th=1&psc=1&pldnSite=1
@VeryHappy My D felt that a half size smaller was a better fit but she has narrow feet. Nordstrom had several Hunter boots on sale when I checked earlier this morning.
@VeryHappy I’m an 8.5, started with size 8 but returned them for 9. Love love love them! I got this style: https://www.hunterboots.com/us/en_us/womens-short-rain-boots/womens-original-short-back-adjustable-rain-boots/black/782
Perhaps both were named back when transportation and communication were slow*, so that whoever named the second one may not have known that the first one existed?
*Similar to how a major battle could be fought after the agreement to end the war that neither local commander knew about.
Why does NJ have so many jug-handles compared to other states? I’ve never seen one in CA (?). What is it about NJ landscapes or Engineers that created this style of left-turn?
Random question: WHAT IS A JUGHANDLE? Never heard that term!!!
Ugh! Jug handles! Agree that NJ has a corner on the jug handle market…Don’t think I’ve seen them on ‘regular’ roads anywhere else. Instead of turning left out of the left lane you exit from the right, take a little side road-maybe think of it as an exit ramp. Often, they loop around (like the handle on a jug). Eventually you are sent across both lanes in the desired direction…Guess the good thing is traffic isn’t slowed down for left-turn lights.
Also known as a Jersey Left.
Here’s a pretty good explanation. They can be maddening if you don’t know the roads. I lived there 15 years and still had trouble knowing when I should move to the left for a turn and when I should stay to the right.
https://bestofnj.com/features/entertainment/nj-vocabulary-jughandles/
There are a couple of states I’ve driven through and thought, “no, I couldn’t live here. Not with the way they design roads!”. Strangely enough the NJ turns didn’t bother me that much but the gas pumping situation sure does.
True story, when hubby and I first moved to NJ right out of college from CA, I once got lost for 2 hours because I didn’t have a cell phone, gps, nor even a paper map with me. All because my husband, then fiancé, told me that I needed to make a left turn at the jughandle after McDonald’s, blah blah blah. Stupid me, I tried to find a street name called ”jughandle”. I got so lost I had to stop to find a paid phone and cried and cried and said I wanted to go back to CA. He had to come and pick me up wherever the hell I was. My excuse to this day was that English wasn’t my first language so how the heck I would know what a jughandle is!
English is my first language and I first heard it here, today!
I’m not familiar with jughandles either, thank goodness. It’s one that thing so far our state has spared us.
Aka a “rotary.” They have them around Cape Cod.
@lookingforward, a jughandle is different from a rotary. It’s an exit to the right used to take a left. The exit loops around, making the shape of a jug handle.
https://bestofnj.com/features/entertainment/nj-vocabulary-jughandles/
@Sue22 wow, you’re so right. My mistake. They do have some jughandles in New England. But not the proliferation you find in NJ.
Really? When I lived in Jersey and when I drive through now, I love getting gas - full service experience at self-service prices. Works for me!
New term of the day for me - jughandle!
We were recently introduced to the diverging diamond interchange and it still freaks me out a bit. I can’t even explain it. It was new to our region a few years ago.
I lived in NJ for two years and never heard the term!
I HATE the diverging diamond thing. We have 2 in town and they are so counter intuitive. They freak me out.