Comments on: Crocs Get the Boot http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/ Manolo Loves the Shoes! Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:09:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: mq, cb http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-538813 mq, cb Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:49:51 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-538813 I am sorry to report that Ms Rabinovitch died last night. She was 44. My deepest condolences to her husband, children, family and friends. Linda Grant has a post about this on her blog. I am sorry to report that Ms Rabinovitch died last night. She was 44. My deepest condolences to her husband, children, family and friends. Linda Grant has a post about this on her blog.

]]> By: mq, cb http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-537862 mq, cb Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:43:49 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-537862 I have finally found someone (other than a small child born of Hollywood superstar parents) who has a good reason to wear crocs. Dina Rabinovitch has breast cancer and in her post on 26 September 2006 on her blog, she wrote: "My crocs are cancer-related. The reason I wear them is because one of the - so far, undocumented - side effects of herceptin is that it shreds your nails, and I am repeatedly having to have (look away now, non cancer-sufferers) whole toe-nails removed, wear huge bandages, and consequently...crocs". http://takeoffyourrunningshoes.typepad.com/take_off_your_running_sho/2006/09/never_trust_a_b.html Ms Rabinovitch has a Just Giving link on her blog because she writes it (and her columns for The Guardian (the latest one - on being terminally ill and the mother of young children - is at http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2196348,00.html)) to raise money for "CTRT Appeal, a million pound [charitable] appeal to set up a cancer trials research centre at Mount Vernon Hospital in London", where she receives treatment. The reason she gave for writing her columns, and not just concentrating on her kids, was excellent: "I wanted the columns to run op-ed, that is, facing the editorials page, giving the subject a serious weight. One in seven women gets breast cancer now, a lot of mastectomies. If one in seven men were losing their penises you can bet that'd be front-page column material, I said". For that, she gets my money. I have finally found someone (other than a small child born of Hollywood superstar parents) who has a good reason to wear crocs. Dina Rabinovitch has breast cancer and in her post on 26 September 2006 on her blog, she wrote:

“My crocs are cancer-related. The reason I wear them is because one of the - so far, undocumented - side effects of herceptin is that it shreds your nails, and I am repeatedly having to have (look away now, non cancer-sufferers) whole toe-nails removed, wear huge bandages, and consequently…crocs”.

http://takeoffyourrunningshoes.typepad.com/take_off_your_running_sho/2006/09/never_trust_a_b.html

Ms Rabinovitch has a Just Giving link on her blog because she writes it (and her columns for The Guardian (the latest one - on being terminally ill and the mother of young children - is at http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2196348,00.html)) to raise money for “CTRT Appeal, a million pound [charitable] appeal to set up a cancer trials research centre at Mount Vernon Hospital in London”, where she receives treatment.

The reason she gave for writing her columns, and not just concentrating on her kids, was excellent:

“I wanted the columns to run op-ed, that is, facing the editorials page, giving the subject a serious weight. One in seven women gets breast cancer now, a lot of mastectomies. If one in seven men were losing their penises you can bet that’d be front-page column material, I said”.

For that, she gets my money.

]]> By: toad http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-537673 toad Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:29:35 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-537673 If at all possible, put the feet of a child in a leather shoe. In both cournty and city environments a child will walk in the nastiest most unsafe area it can find. Leathear breathes, is abrasion resistant, (See leather clad racing motocyclist skidding down the track in his leathers then getting up with his own hide intact) Also the smooth leather shoe is much less likely to snag on things. It is just more "agile" on those little annoy8ng bundles of hyperness. If at all possible, put the feet of a child in a leather shoe. In both cournty and city environments a child will walk in the nastiest most unsafe area it can find. Leathear breathes, is abrasion resistant, (See leather clad racing motocyclist skidding down the track in his leathers then getting up with his own hide intact)
Also the smooth leather shoe is much less likely to snag on things. It is just more “agile” on those little annoy8ng bundles of hyperness.

]]> By: michelle http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-536344 michelle Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:55:49 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-536344 Ah...yes...the parochial-style dress code. Amazing how all the things that were simply horrifying as a child turn out to be really good ideas as an adult, hmm. Ah…yes…the parochial-style dress code. Amazing how all the things that were simply horrifying as a child turn out to be really good ideas as an adult, hmm.

]]> By: Scandy http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-536339 Scandy Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:32:39 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-536339 I was a first-aid attendant in a large department store for some time, and twice I have seen the toes of a flip-flopped foot get sliced up by an escalator. If the blood and bone aren't enough to make you turn away, the flip flops surely are. I was a first-aid attendant in a large department store for some time, and twice I have seen the toes of a flip-flopped foot get sliced up by an escalator. If the blood and bone aren’t enough to make you turn away, the flip flops surely are.

]]> By: class-factotum http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-536335 class-factotum Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:17:03 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-536335 Carol, I, too, am troubled at the idea of inflicting bad fashion on the 3rd world, but I think (based on my experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in South America) that the mothers of these children would be happy to have any sort of foot covering. The money they don't have to spend on shoes is money that can go for pencils for school. Carol, I, too, am troubled at the idea of inflicting bad fashion on the 3rd world, but I think (based on my experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in South America) that the mothers of these children would be happy to have any sort of foot covering. The money they don’t have to spend on shoes is money that can go for pencils for school.

]]> By: Mantelli http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-536294 Mantelli Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:25:19 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-536294 I was with the schools until the last line of the quote. Is Ms. Soronen really expecting kids at public schools to be wearing custom shoes? What planet is she from? I was with the schools until the last line of the quote. Is Ms. Soronen really expecting kids at public schools to be wearing custom shoes? What planet is she from?

]]> By: Carol http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-536281 Carol Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:05:14 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/18/crocs-get-the-boot/#comment-536281 I heard the very troubling commercial on my local Christian radio station just the other day - a worthy organization is sending "rubber clogs" to the refugee children in Africa for only $3/pair. ("Yes, the same rubber clogs you and I pay $30 for in the stores!") It is good that their feets will be covered and out of the sewage and garbage, but covered in Crocs? Is that entirely necessary??? I am torn - I wish to help the children but cannot (CANNOT!) give money to the Crocs. I heard the very troubling commercial on my local Christian radio station just the other day - a worthy organization is sending “rubber clogs” to the refugee children in Africa for only $3/pair. (”Yes, the same rubber clogs you and I pay $30 for in the stores!”) It is good that their feets will be covered and out of the sewage and garbage, but covered in Crocs? Is that entirely necessary??? I am torn - I wish to help the children but cannot (CANNOT!) give money to the Crocs.

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