CROCS (footwear related)
mylatency
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Who here actually rocks these? Does your immediate family wear them?Ugliest shoes evar, and their stock tumbled 27 points yesterday!!! Down 36% I be the shorts are shooting their loads over this one. http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=CROXWOW
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I come by them by way of hospital culture though, and realize that they are not the most stylish shit ever. But fuck, there you are, knee deep in amniotic fluid and telling Mom to push, it's like, "Damn, my feet feel so cozy."
comfort>style=old
Does he have them in size 16????
They've banned them in hospitals over here in the UK. The static can turn off equipment apparently. Yeah, killer shoes.
Crocs are seriously comfortable but ugly as hell.
How do rubber shoes produce static?
I would assume the same way rubber balloons do - friction.
http://news.aol.com/business/story/_a/got-crocs-be-careful-on-the-escalator/20070918103609990001
My uncle is very good friends with the owners, they were frat brother together. Their stocks slipped, but he has a private plane. They're doing fine.
Their marketing director was nominated by Brand Week as one of the top marketers of the year.
They'll be fine.
not all crocs are created equal
A competing company had the foresight to see the holes/openings being a problem & started making croc styled shoes with no holes. I can't remember the name, but I imagine those will be popular.
actually this is a pic of crocs, and I can confirm as I've seen both varieties at croc displays at various shoe stores (at least in NYC). They also have a flip flop model, which almost got me buying a pair, as I needed new flip flops and wouldn't be embarrassed to wear them in public.
and of course sketchers has their own knockoff.
My wife has a pair of Airwalk faux-Crocs.
on their convenience for little kids. My son has a pair thathe loves to wear. Very light, easy on/off and practically indestructable.
I posted this above, but I'll put it up again for the parents here:
http://news.aol.com/business/story/_a/got-crocs-be-careful-on-the-escalator/20070918103609990001
peace
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BTW the bedazzler things you put on crocs are called jibbitz. I heard that a mom invented them using femo. Her husband was a venture capitalist, told her to take it to the next level. Word is they sold the company to CROCS for $20 million. Not bad for a little Sunday afternoon keep your kids busy type project .
(with all due respect to hospital workers - you get a pass. when you see an entire family out shopping in matching crocs however - now that's cringeworthy.)
Also, FYI: Swedish NHL Hockey hero Peter "Foppa" Forsberg brought this ugly-ass shoe to Sweden. He's a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me.
i mean didn't someone admit to getting a hardon while wearing stockings? it's like a week of coming clean.
first the hard on, then the crocs, what's next? admitting you watch Reba?
Soul Strut: the Dr. Phil of the record world.
them's fighting words. Forsberg's my favorite hockey player of alltime. Don't knock the man. If Forsberg approves, then maybe there's nothing wrong with crocs after all!
Forsberg probably picked them up here in Colorado (home of the Crocs) when he played for the Avalanche. You are welcome, Sweden!
And let the record show that these are a product of BOULDER, Colorado. Further proof that noithing good ever came out of Boulder.
Round these parts, we call people who wear these "Croc Rockers".
They are the Jelly Shoes of the 'Boommer set. Honestly, its hard to hold a serious conversation with a man (and LOTS of 'boomer men wear these) who is the same age or older than your own dad, while he is wearing neon green Crocs.
There was a lady here in Colorado who started and sold a pretty successful company that made and sold nothing but little stoppers for the holes in the Crocs.
These are the jawns that I have. I originally got a pair for my father-in-law (who's a Berkeley surfer dude) for doing yard work and shit. Earlier this year whil at his house I slipped his on to take the trash out and I was like "Oh shit these bitches are comfortable as hell." They then got me the ones above for my birthday and I was like "Oh, okay..." But a fee days later I wore them to the airport and was immediately sold. Without exception the most comfortable pair of shoes that I have ever worn for traveling. I now wear them whenever I'm flying (considering all the bullshit that you have to go through at airport security and flying it's best to be as light as possible.) Considering how much I fly they have treated me AWESOME.
YES, they're ugly as all hell, but when I'm rolling through security checkpoints I don't give a fuck. My shit is SKRATE.