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Two questions:

Suggestions for attractive, comfortable, waterproof boots? My high boots (I got them my freshman year of college) just failed for the second time this winter, leaking water while I was tromping around shoveling. (They've been waterproofed twice since November, so that's not it either.) They're ugly as all hell, but they worked for five years.

Suggestions for cheap fabric buying? Is there a fabric equivalent to KnitPicks and Elann?