Crocs - dumbest fashion craze since leg-warmers!

[demonboy]

This may have been discussed before in the forums but I need to get this off my chest. For the last couple of years now I've spent much of my time during the summer months recoiling at possibly the most horrendous fashion disaster since puff-ball skirts and leg warmers: CROCS. I mean, W. T. F ??? I don't care if they're really comfortable. I don't care if they're perfect for hopping on and off the boat. I don't even care if they're advertised in the back of established yachting magazines, providing, supposedly, some kind of kudos amongst yotties. They look utterly rediculous and anyone even contemplating buying a pair, let alone owning them, should be shot on the spot.

 

[Poignard]

Would you kindly explain to m'lud and the court - what are Crocs?/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Obviously not the kind that recently dined upon a British tourist in Australia]

For the record, I have ticked the box entitled "I have no fashion sense etc"

 

[lyralicious]

Does this link ring any bells? Your signature is quite appropriate!

 

[Poignard]

Ah! Those things. Thankyou, young lady.

Not the sort of thing an "old croc" like me would be seen wearing. However, if Loakes or Barkers start making them I might try a pair.

 

[WayneS]

You missed an option on the vote

3) Yep, you said it, but I still got myself a pair

 

[Tranona]

I thought like you until I got a pair - well the £4.99 copies from the market, not the real overpriced item. Absolutely brilliant for swimming in Corfu where most of the beaches are stony!

Had a choice of blue, pink or green, but chose the blue to co-ordinate with my swimming shorts and the stripe on the hull of my boat!

 

[KellysEye]

Yup, we have them too. The most practical footwear we've ever bought, including only about 5 minutes in the sun to dry.

 

[mikehibb]

A certain colleague of mine insists on wearing his Crocs in the office (with socks)

Guess which way I voted.

 

[shmoo]

Completely practical, hard wearing and easy drying. Clones are very cheap too. I am too old and too ugly to care what my feet look like. I wear bright yellow ones that are easy to locate amongst the discarded clothes on the cabin floor when I wake up.

Should I wear a target tee shirt?

 

[Lawsy]

Love 'em. Tend not to wear them about the boat as the ones I've got are a fraction too big & may slip off my feet whilst boarding. However, for use on the beach or when gardening they can't be beaten.

 

[Oliveoyl]

I think many (most) people agree with the aesthetic downside,but many actually buy and wear the things, so there must be something going for them.
Like Shmoo, I am old and ugly, but also have such incredibly ugly feet that a pair of Crocs would really draw attention to one of my (many) worst features.
Will keep hammering my Chathams till they disintegrate

 

[Robin]

I fought the urge valiantly for nearly 2 years after SWMBO bought hers in the USA, on the advice of friends who run a big charter yacht in the Carribbean. I now have 2 pairs of cheapo copies and one pair of originals, copies are in discrete sand colour to match my shorts or black to match my feet, sorry jeans. The proper job ones are in brightest red so the whole world can see I bought the real deal ones.

Very comfy, very good going ashore on a sandy beach and as yet I don't have red circles on my feet from the sun through the holes.

 

[CodStewart]

I use mine as pillows on beaches.

 

[nickrj]

Ok, I've had a deep hatred of Crocs for a long time. That was until I was too poor to buy a new pair of shoes, and my 'boaty shoes' which I bought from Tesco were shot. A friend visited me in the Caribbean, and his leaving present was his pair of Crocs. I've been wearing them full time since that fateful day, and it is in fact my only pair of 'shoes'.

A friend is a producer for a commercial fashion photo house in NYC. I went to her office, and was promptly laughed out the door for having the 'ugliest shoes on the entire planet'.

But you know what, they're the most comfortable things I've had on my feet, not counting being bare foot on a white sandy beach.

/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif nick

 

[Twister_Ken]

I wouldn't touchem with someone else's bargepole, let alone mine.

 

[Tranona]

What I have to do now is to persuade my wife (who has two pairs) not to buy me the litlte motifs to put in the holes to personalise them. She thinks they will make good stocking fillers for Xmas!

 

[demonboy]

My god, this has turned into a confessional. Desist!

 

[Tranona]

You started it with your luddite post!
Embrace the products of mass consumerism!

 

[Forbsie]

I want a pair of these!

 

[ccscott49]

Designed for hanging from trees!!! Forbsie, your feet look like that anyway!! All black and wrinkled!