I have a pair of purple crocs. I bought them a month ago because I hate wearing socks in summer and I needed a pair of closed-toe shoes to wear at work. I work nights in an assisted living community and so I can go without shoes for much of my shift, but when I’m interacting with residents I need to be wearing footwear that covers up my bad pedicure and is slip-resistant. Crocs allow me to do that, and they don’t make my feet smell like other closed-toe, sockless shoes. I avoid wearing them when going anywhere else, but I am guilty of slipping them on for a quick trip to the grocery store because the color makes them easier to find than my other shoes.

They’re the ugliest things in my closet, though. I hate them. If you can recommend another closed-toe shoe that offers the same easy-wear, easy-care, no-smelly-feet solution, I’d gladly sell them. Everyone out here seems to have them.

“Everyone out here seems to have them.”

Eeeeewwww…….!
Fortunately for me, hardly anyone wears them where I live.
Wildflower is right, there are better looking and comfortable shoes that allow feet to “breath”.

Crocs are like smoking, and depite the numerous warnings and against their better judgement, people will presist in their devotion to an abomination.

I needed comfortable shoes to wear at a camp after a long hike into the Grand Canyon. Most importantly, they needed to be light, since I’d have to carry them in my backpack. So I bought a pair of fuschia Crocs, and they were indeed light, almost weightless, and they did indeed give my poor feet a break after a difficult day in my hiking boots.

But they’re still just cheap, plastic, incredibly ugly shoes, and I have not worn them since. As a matter of fact, they’re in the basement with my backpack and trekking poles instead of in my closet with all of my other shoes (including the aforementioned hiking boots). They’re not good enough to be real shoes.

Don’t sell or even donate them. That’s like purposely spreading the plague. To Never teh Bride, Florida is where America goes to die. Their choice of shoes doesn’t matter to the rest of the world.

The Tia respectfully asks alaaaynne why does she have a bad pedicure to hide? Can she not get a soothing and comforting pedicure, with the subtle and pleasing clear or pale polish, so that she does not have to feel embarrased by her toes?

Indeed, the feet of the alaaynne wold feel ever so much better if given such a treat.

Perhaps a pedicure at home, if the alaaynne finds a salon inconvenient or costly?

People seem to like them alot here also. I don’t think they look comfortable at all. That and they are so ugly. I would never buy a pair of these.

Ugly, chunky, unstylish and possibly comfortable (yet to be tested by La Nena because I think comfortable is a word of many meanings) but there are so many other comfortable options around which would totally kill the crocs if exposed. Somehow, good marketing is working here.

I went to a Rush concert recently. I saw more men with mullets than I did people wearing Crocs (I kept a running tally in my faithful notebook). This lead me to a quite perplexing hypothesis. That is that even southern hicks have better fashion taste than to sport Crocs in public. No puede ser!

I’ve plenty of flat comfy shoes. My favorite being a pair of brown flat Josef Siebel mary janes I’ve worn to the point of having resoled. Sadly they no longer make the mary jane I own, but the Maddie by Josef Siebel is pretty darn cute.

“Rush fans are “southern hicks”?”

LOL, of course not, I just happen to live in the South! Even opera fans down here would include the mulleted. Welcome to Nascar country.

I have no problem with people who wear Crocs to take out the garbage, to sit in back room cubicles all day, to watch tv, whatever, as long as they don’t try to pretend they look anything other than juvenile and ugly. All those “comfort is beauty” people need to step back, realize they spent forty bucks for twenty-five cents worth of plastic, and get over themselves. Comfort is comfort. None of the strangers upon whom you inflict the sight of your hideous shoes give a rat’s ass that you’re comfortable.

Also: what ever happened to shoes that are comfortable and presentable? If they’re not presentable, don’t present them in public. As Miss Manners says, nobody cares what you wear when you’re alone.

What’s wrong with an actual pair of canvas tennis shoes if you need casual, close-toed shoes?

Aylaanne, I must second the Dankso clogs. I’m a photographer and on my feet (often on concrete) for long stretches of time. I also have sweaty feet and like to wiggle my toes. :-) The Dansko clogs are so comfortable with a roomy toe box (but they don’t fly off your feet if you’re in a hurry) and look physical-labor dressy. And they breathe really well. I know lots of nurses and fellow photogs who swear by them. I know I do.

OKA b’s are the worst thing in the South…ugly rubber shoe with huge printed bow….women here wear them to dress up…gross….