What to Wear: It's still raining, cold and miserable

It's been cold , windy and rainy in Sydney this last week, but who says you can't still be fabulous and funky even in the cold and rain? I've spotted some interesting little items to keep you dry and fashionably funky. Or perhaps just fashionably freaky?

This bootbag is by Belgium designer Saskia Marcotti. Yes it is a bag made from a rubber boot.

No, that's not a photo of me. Yes, it is perhaps more freaky than funky. Yes, you could make

one very easily and cheaply from a rubber boot of your own choosing. Yes, you could make another in case you lost the first one. Moving on...

Now this is a boot that I love and not one I'll be putting my wallet or phone into. It's by Danish designer Ilse Jacobsen. I love the little hooky things at the top just like when I was a kid putting on my ice skates.

Maybe that's why I love them so much...a bit of childhood nostalgia from when I was a child freezing my toes off in Canada where I had to take outdoor skating lessons in the freezing cold. Lessons were only cancelled when it was -10F that would be -23C. Yes that's right, minus 23 celsius. And my children complain that it's cold here in

Sydney in the winter when during the day it probably never gets colder

than + 15C!!! And they want to visit Grandma and Grandpa one winter...which I keep putting off...But I would rock in these boots in the transit terminals and The Great White North!

And also from the Scandinavian neck of the woods, from Sweden, the Hanna raincoat from Didriksons. Just a little bit of blue to go perfectly with the boots. I think I should have been born Scandinavian....

Jessie's choice for some cold weather gear is from http://www.acmecouture.etsy.com/ on her wish list is this particular fashionable number though probably not the best choice for walking in the rain.