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There's basically two sorts of people: the one's willing to overlook the aesthetics and the one's who aren't. There's a reason hospital staff wear them. They are not designed to look good, they are designed to let the humidity from your sweat evaporate instead of letting it accumulate into a damp breeding ground ripe for a host of foot conditions. For some people it will matter more than others.
There's plenty of Crocs designs that don't look ugly, but I hope they continue to be unpopular as that keeps them cheap. It's risky to switch to other brands with this sort of design, Crocs got it right.
A. hospital staff definitely don't wear Crocs, they're actually forbidden at every hospital I've worked at for being open-topped
B. The last time I bought Crocs they were 75USD for an adult and 35USD for babies sizes. That's not far off the price of actual running shoes
A. Another comment (and my own observations - not even in the US, so no idiocracy factor either) prove otherwise. They claim it's to deal with bodily fluids (I guess sweat doesn't count for them). B. Not a shared reality. Your market, your choices I guess, but even amazon.com (US market) disagrees on the prices you are claiming.
I have weirdly wide feet and crocs are the first shoes I've tried that I can wear all day long and not be in pain. I don't care what they look like, I am just overjoyed I can walk around the city all day and don't want to cry 5 minutes in cause my feet hurt too much.
So crocs are for sweaty people.
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Good thing you will never have to worry about that!
I swear standard shoes all day every day, and I've never in my life had that issue... It sounds very medically unique.
I don't get it either.
There are tons of cheap, decent slip on shoes, in mens womens and neutral styles, with substantial padding... and you can just put an off the shelf ortho pad in em, if you want them to be even more comfy/supportive.
I guess some people just don't mind looking goofy as hell.
Like, they make sense as beach shoes... but... you can just... maintain shoes, you can clean them... I don't see why you need the literal holes for venting.
Cross are cheap?
I don't know if you have another definition of cheap, or just live in a different worse off market.
Certainly not that I've seen.
Mine were $25 new so yeah, they are cheap if you actually look. They are also really durable.
That’s 2.5k INR. My Puma running shoes are for 1.5k INR lol.
I'm in the US, so I am fairly certain that there are duties etc. that make them more expensive for you.
Only "real" ones (from the official original brand)
Medical people are wearing them to avoid ruining shoes with body fluids, not for sweat or breathability.
Hospitals are gross.
Source: have medicaled before.
Crocs are also good for wearing for 14 -18 hour shifts too, though, right?
I personally can't be sure, longest I've ever worn them on clinicals was 12 hours. I didn't really feel they were that comfy that long. I did more EMT work and that required a different shoe. I had 24 hour shifts there. So I just used cute leather boots and they stayed outside my house cus they got gross. I felt more comfy and support in proper footwear personally. Kind of the same when in the military and deployed.
But everyone is different.
I use Crocs like they are final form flipflops. Any time I'd be comfortable wearing flipflops, I just wear crocs instead. People hate on them mostly because of internet groupthink conditioning (see also: pineapple on pizza and the word 'moist').
huh. i never thought about crocs that way. i can't wear flip flops for [doxxable reasons] but crocs could work. i just really really don't like the way they look and already have good sandals. sandals that are in desperate need of maintenance because they're old enough to rent a car. hmmm.
if i find out you're a BRAND salesman i'ma come after you and we'll have to i don't know, get coffee and bagels or something and YOU'LL HAVE TO BUY THE BAGELS. you seem like a pleasant dude and that seems like a fair exchange.
Have you looked at some of their new, esoteric models? You might get along with those better.
Honestly, I stopped caring. They're so goddamn comfortable, I can wear them outside in the dirt and simply wash them, I love the things.
see, i'm weird. we're all complicated, right? I'm generally function over form, but like i am also a musician and so vain i think the song is about me. like except for my sandals and hiking boots i wear exclusively Børn shoes because they are sooooo comfy (and the first pair i got looked so cool. the pairs i have now are just leather, but the first ones had orange stripes!) and last a long time. like decades and stay good quality. i tend to compare them favorably to and about the same comfort and quality level as i hear about Birkenstocks (my wife has some of both brands, she says i am correct). For the average consumer (i ain't talking the superrich, those fucks get handmade shoes probably) they are Lady Sybil level on the Vimes Scale of Boot Quailty.
So like, coming from that type of shoe snob, i might try on a pair of crocs but i will be afraid. do you know of a biblically accurate shoe salesman that can help me through the fear?
Now that song is stuck in my head! Oh no!
this one?
Not that version, but yeah!
i had to share because i love that version, especially the lack of the chorus.
i got to hear it live and omg
Username checks out.