Comments on: The Crocs Go Public

By: owen marshall

owen marshall — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:30:17 +0000

While Crocs may not be the most fashionable shoe around - they are certainly the fashion statement at summer camps. My son and daughter both take them to camp to be used as an all around camp show. For water activities, for trekking around in the woods, and muddy trails in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Photo’s from summer camp web-site features 6-10 girls sitting beachside all sporting their colorful crocs on!!
This is one place Crocs are great for!!

By: JayKay

JayKay — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:50:33 +0000

My fiancee and I made a stop in Denver during our recent holiday travels…
The Denver airport features these silly things in nearly every little souvenir and newspaper store AND, everyone in said airport seemed to be wearing a pair.
All I can say is, WTF? Seriously, WTF?

By: willow

willow — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:56:53 +0000

Alas, alas! I work in Boulder CO where I see these atrocities everywhere, in addition to other shoes of the peasants of the mud - and the noveau hippies pay the $100 of dollars for them! And not just in gardens, but in public. And at work.

I just shake my head in amusement.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:13:04 +0000

My sister has the Crocs in pink — she wears them all the time. It upsets me. . . as for Cortney’s comment, I was unlucky enough to find myself in an ER recently and my doctor was wearing them. It made me nervous! Luckily, her taste in shoes was not a reflection of her excellent medical skills.

By: Cortney

Cortney — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 22:05:19 +0000

Alas, I work at a large hospital and these monstrosities have become rather popular with the staff. Oh the horrors! I’ll stick with my sky-high heels thank you very much!

By: pbird

pbird — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:27:28 +0000

The Z-coils are lifesavers for those who cannot anymore walk without them. They are shock absorbers. Not everyone can wear beautiful shoes, alas.

By: JaneC

JaneC — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:49:29 +0000

Actually Jane, at least one friend of mine wears the shoes with big springs for heels because her doctor told her to. She has some “normal” shoes, but can only wear them for short periods of time. For walking around the college campus, she must wear the shoes with springs. She has some kind of tendonitis in her ankles. At least they are better-looking than my grandmother’s orthopedic shoes.

Of course it is possible that not everyone who wears such shoes has some kind of injury or chronic condition, and if they don’t, they should wear nice, normal shoes.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:05:18 +0000

This are truly horrible for anything but gardening, but I am more horrified by the shoes with big springs for heels that I’ve been seeing here and there. Another form of the “ugly, but comfortable” trend I suppose.

By: Zsa

Zsa — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:04:21 +0000

A friend of mine bought the Crocs for one purpose only. She was trekking around rural India in the Monsoon season– her rationale? The rain goes into the shoes, and then the rain goes out of the holes!
She (smartly) left them behind upon her return.

By: Kourtney

Kourtney — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:28:04 +0000

I have a pair of these, for the gardening. They are nice to kick on & off, you can hose them out when they are done, they don’r blister or require socks, and the little rubber bits in the insole are fairly comfortable (unless it is shovel time. Then get some stout boots). Leaving them sitting on the outdoor deck for several months appears to do them no damage. I got mine from Lee Valley last fall, & had NO IDEA that they were “fashionable”. My sneaking suspicion is that there are merely the inheritor of the adidas/nike plastic sandal with the little wiggly rubber nipples in the sole - lauded for “comfort”, & worn by far, far too many. And, if I ever venture further than my mailbox in my garden clogs, may I develop bunions that prevent the wearing of my latest prized darlings, the Fluevog’s “Listen Harlow”.