Hate the Crocs
Manolo says, for many days now the most busy Manolo has been intending to link to this important website: I Hate Crocs, the website that is dedicated to “eliminating crocs and those who think their excuses for wearing them are viable.”
Natually, the Manolo could not agree more with the high purpose of this website, and the owners of it, they are the kindred spirits with the Manolo, devoted to the cause of respectable and attractive feetwear.
September 13th, 2006 at 9:55 am
You will be displeased to know that Crocs were sighted at a swank San Francisco soiree hosted by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison for pundit/bloggist Arianna Huffington. According to S.F. Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik, one guest “noticed that Google [co-founder] Larry Page’s feet were shod in gray Crocs (rubber clogs, a dress-up version of flip-flops). “Now I can wear mine to work,” she said.” No, she can’t. Read the column here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/09/13/DDG6PKE8OR1.DTL
September 13th, 2006 at 10:58 am
Thank GOD! I absolutely detest Crocs. Everytime I see someone wearing these abominations I feel like tearing them off their feet!
September 13th, 2006 at 11:17 am
What kills me is how Crocladites want to convert everyone to them, as if to validate their own dreadfull taste in the name of comfort. “Try mine on!,” they insist. [Shudder.] And now there are Croc ornaments or jewelry or something one sticks in the holes. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of the airiness? Never mind, I don’t care enough to want to know.
September 13th, 2006 at 11:23 am
Honestly, I never understood their appeal. I bet they’re great for draining cooked pasta, though!
September 13th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Manolo - last week I saw a woman wearing them to work - but she was on crutches. Maybe you could reocmmend a alternative for folks in such a situatuion so they don’t have to resort wearing those ugly things.
September 13th, 2006 at 11:34 am
I feel that there’s an episode of Curb Your Enthusaism in all of this, somwhere.
‘Larry! You can’t go to the Stiller bar mitzvah with those on your feet.’
‘Whjy not?’
September 13th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Ah, the evil croc. I work in a hospital, and we have become entirely overrun with the dreaded crocs. Comfortable? Maybe; I’ve never had them on my feet so I can’t say for sure. But I have comfortable shoes to wear in the hospital all day that are not only real closed-toe shoes (i.e., if a bloody scalpel falls on my foot, I’m okay. I don’t have to worry about the bloody scalpel falling through a hole in the top of my shoe. My shoes are also respectable-looking, and do not in the least resemble flippers. I can’t wear the super-fantastic shoes while standing in the operating room all day, but that doesn’t mean I have to wear the crocs, either.
September 13th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
AAAAAAAGH! I just don’t understand it. I see crocs everywhere…on the street, in stores, at restaurants…
People wear them with socks, for goodness sake! And put them on their poor, abused children.
I cannot for the life of me comprehend why why why anyone would wear shoes sold in the produce section of Whole Foods!
September 13th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
While at Shenandoah National Park several times this summer, we noticed a number of bony, scraggly, bearded (if male) hikers wearing crocs at the lodges. In conversation, we learned that many of these individuals were hiking the Appalachian Trail, a most rigorous undertaking, and that they wore crocs to rest their feet when not on the Trail.
In my world, they and other long-distance hikers can wear crocs. Crocs should be a niche shoe for those with tired and sore feet. Everyone else can find something better.
September 13th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
my boyfriend and i saw a kiosk of JUST CROCS during a visit to our local mall last weekend. it scares me to think that there are enough people BUYING these wretched things to actually necessitate an entire kiosk devoted to them.
crocs remind me of something my grandmother would buy me for christmas, much like the maroon leather driving gloves she bought me last year. it’s a nice thought, but i wouldn’t be caught dead in them. i’m pretty sure that if i died and someone put a pair of crocs on my feet, i would come back to life, take them off, throw them out the nearest window, and then die again.
September 13th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
Where’s the tolerance and sense of humor here, folks? I love my damn pair of Crocs. They are so comfortable. Like with an illicit substance, I can’t stop my Crocs’ madness.
Manolo approves white after Labor Day and you are ok with that, so please cut your mother’s age group a small break.
Let’s admit, if nothing else, that they are cute on small kids.
September 13th, 2006 at 10:15 pm
I hate Crocs passionately (while granting exceptions for those who stand all day, hikers, the injured and tiny children) and yet I am strangely drawn to these (or at least I hope this link works), the strange Croc Prima ballet flat. I don’t plan to actually wear one but they have a weird, futuristic allure. Like something that will be a collector’s item in forty years the way fifties “atomic” stuff is today.
September 14th, 2006 at 7:11 am
My husband works in an hospital and they are talking about no longer allowing them on nurses, scalpel drops, blood splatter, needle sticks through the holes. The nurses are up in arms. Guess safety is not as important as ugly shoes.
September 14th, 2006 at 7:19 am
I agree with Sarah Mae-the Prima ballet flat looks super cute, although the reality is probably harsh. I myself have tried on the crocs to see what all the fuss was about, and was extremely dissapointed-they are made for people with wide feet. (I would still feel ridiculous wearing a pair in public).
Additionally on the exceptions granted list should go other types of athletes-essentially little more than non-fuzzy slippers, Crocs are for the wearing in not the wearing out. Many scuba divers wear them because they too can be dumped in the rinse tank. They are also worn by girls on my ice hockey team, because unlike sneakers they do not trap the smell of hockey after the game.
September 14th, 2006 at 10:21 am
But Penny, there is a sense of humor here! We make fun of Crocs because they are an ugly trend. Ugly trends appear, many people go along with it, and later everyone laughs hysterically at the old photos of themselves in their ridiculous clothing that they once thought was cutting edge. Eventually Crocs will go the way of bell bottoms and ponchos (some may continue to wear them as mud shoes while gardening or some similarly messy function, which is all they ever should have been used for in the first place).
September 14th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Crocs make me feel like an angry cartoon, where the red boils up in my face until steam comes out of my ears. They are just so offensively ugly. You wouldn’t willingly give yourself a bad haircut, why should you say it’s okay to wear ugly shoes?
September 14th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
Never teh Bride: Nooooooo! With socks?!?
Crocs with socks??
Gaaahhh! The thought, it shocks!
My mind, it blocks
Those Crocs with socks.
A curse, I say, a curse with pox!
May death with sticks and stones and rocks
Smite this “shoe” which footwear mocks.
(Or… maybe just some time in stocks,
Re-educating ovine flocks.)
September 14th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Well, I can see I have company here! I thought I was in the minority on hating Crocs since I keep seeing them everywhere. They remind me of rubber Birkenstocks. Are the holes there in the shoes so your feet don’t get overly sweaty and stink because they are made of the bouncing ball material? *gag* Of all the fugly trends… I’d rather wear a poncho!
September 15th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
But the crocs DO have a purpose.
They are great to wear while washing the car.
September 16th, 2006 at 11:41 am
Loathe crocs. And the concept that they should be cleaned in your dishwasher is beyond revolting. A friend of mine is very fond of them for her children for pool wear and for wearing to ballet class where one must arrive and immediately change into the ballet shoes for the wearing of the ballet shoes in the parking lot is verboten.
Instead, I offer the children’s Reef with it’s supportive arch and the humorous Hello Kitty sandal from Target. Yes, the Hello Kitty sandal does violate The Manolo’s dictum against the cheaply made shoe, however the four-year-old will only wear the shoe for maybe three months and it appeals to the sparkly princess in all of us.
September 17th, 2006 at 1:23 am
And I thought I was the only one. I also hate crocs. They’re fine for slippers or pool shoes, but wearing them to business or church? Good God, are they ugly.
Yehuda
September 20th, 2006 at 4:47 am
Crocs are detrimental to my mental health.
September 20th, 2006 at 9:13 am
Here are several beautiful features of Crocs:
They contain no animal products, so are an excellent option for vegetarians/vegans/conscientious consumers;
They are comfortable and foot-healthy, so rather than mangling and deforming your feet, they have actually been shown to improve foot health (they have been approved by the American Podiatric Medical Association);
They are lightweight and versatile, so you can wear them in almost any outdoor pursuit (walking, kayaking, hiking, etc).
They are equal-opportunity! And cheap! So you can wear them if you are very young, very old, very rich, very poor, male, female, injured, healthy, weird, normal, whatever!
Beauty is subjective. I know this post is futile and I’ll shortly be torn apart by Croc-hating fashionistas. I just thought I’d share some of the appealing characteristics that draw people to these fugly (so fugly they’re cute?…maybe!) shoes.
September 21st, 2006 at 6:48 pm
I knew I wasn’t the only one who hated them. I needed no validation that they are quite possibly the STUPIDEST thing people put on their feet.
January 2nd, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Crocs are not appropriate shoe wear for public outings, especially in an formal office, bank or decent public forum. I can understand why some blind, naive people may wear them to the beach, the pool or gardening or at the hospital. But come on! stop with the lame excuses to try to convert others to wear them. “Oh there sooo comfy” “There cheap”. Ya you know what else is cheap? This adorable pair of flat shoes I bought that are black and kind of cute yet dressy and they were only 29 dollars at payless! and there comfy! and don’t look like monstrous ugly pieces of crap. Crocs are growing epidemic that needs to be stopped. There is no logical reason to wear these ugly pieces of crap in a formal public setting with a nice outfit. Why not just wear garbage bags tied on your feet, there just as attractive. Will call them “Garcs”
January 6th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
The ugliest and the STUPIDEST shoes are pointy shoes and the “Uggs”.
Personally, I think the fashion gurus are just as guilty of ugly clothing as the people they transform. A prime example is the American version’s obsession with the pointy shoe. They’re impractical, unflattering and insanely ugly. Yet you continue to stuff your piggies into orifices that are way too minuscule for them to fit into. If Freud were alive, he’d have plenty of material based on the self-torture inflicted by these witchy beasts. Damn you, “Sex and the City”! And yeah.. There’s a very good reason these Australian sheepskin boots are called “Uggs,” and just by looking at them, you’ll figure it out. ME, TARZAN. YOU, BOOT — UGGS
April 5th, 2007 at 2:07 am
[…] Avid shoe blog readers know that Manolo the Shoeblogger HATES Crocs. Probably even more than I hate Flip-Flops. Seems others hate Crocs as well, including the owner of the domain name IHateCrocs.com. Now, that’s hatred. I personally do not own a pair of Crocs, but I may be open to buying some of the new styles, ie the Crocs Nile style shown and available at Zappos.com. […]
October 19th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Cute on small kids you say? I would never have my child sport this ugly fashion!!
I’ve seen much cuter shoes and sandals that are comfortable I’d rather buy.
Oh and even my mother heck even my grandmother has better fashion sense than that!
October 19th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
ONLY UGLY PEOPLE WEAR UGLY CROC SHOES! HAA!!
December 13th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
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