important public safety alert! (crocs)

jjb

How about crocs + tight tapered pants? Yea or nay??

Oh, man, camel toe and croc-hole toe in the same outfit—definitely a harbinger of fashion apocalypse.

neene

young snitch wrote: erikka understands the importance of fresh footwear. the aesthetic of comfort over style is pervasive and starts, literally and figuratively, from the ground up: wearing scuffed up clogs begets dingy khaki shorts ...

as one of those people who walks miles and rides a bike in heels i must come to the defense of scuffed up clogs, i don't throw mine out until they're worn down so far they are in danger of becoming birkenstocks (which i confess i have been known to take offense to).
& btw
they look great with cut-offs, the rattier the better (khaki anything however i can do without)

fashion tip of the week: the wig store on nostrand & atlantic, fun, fabulous and believe me, wear one of those for a few hours and no one can accuse you of putting comfort before style

young snitch

tight tapered pants are no longer worth praise or scorn. if women's pants are up for debate, it should be about high-waisted jammies. skinny chicks can rock the hell out of them, but chubsters just end up with unsightly she-paunches.

erikka

vanilla wrote: yesterday i saw this lady sporting a pair of crocs and everytime she took a step, one of her toes poked through one of the croc holes. so nasty.

CROC HOLES! That is what I am going to call those people from now on.

I bike quite a bit (fixed gear, which is hard on your shoes) and walk nearly everywhere, and and I don't wear what looks like the footwear equivalent of Neill from the Young Ones. A simple pair of converse all stars is a million times nicer than any pair of Borns or Danskos. Throw an insole in them so you don't go all flat footed--they come in all kinds of colors if you like that kind of thing. Or just some simple Asics tigers. Or, if you're a girl, just simple black flats--if you get cute mary jane style ones you can even bike in them and they match everything. NO EXCUSES FOR FUGLY. If your shoes aren't comfortable then you're probably buying cheap shoes or the wrong kind for your feet...

Oh, and thank you Kate Moss for bringing back skinny jeans. Do you have a vendetta against ass or something? I can't afford the coke necessary to stay in a pair of those, avoid avoid avoid.

young snitch

girls have the freshest colors in dunks, too. unfortunately for dudes, if you want to grab those pastel colors, you're better off going through nikeID than trying to find a size 14 in womens'.

dailyheights

I just did a little reportage on this thread:

Are You a Croc Hole?

What is the latest battle in the War for the Flyness of Prospect Heights? It’s not PH pedestrians vs the inexorable northward march of Park Slope strollers… sushi vs beef patties… or even $2.50 mini-cupcakes vs $15 manicures. It’s about normal footwear vs. overly casual fashion in the form of unisex plastic shoes with Swiss cheese holes...

http://www.dailyheights.com/archives/1072

sweet tea

wait a minute, erikka, you're getting all snippy about shoes, and you're wearing chucks? i thought you had something slick going on after all that talk.

don't get me wrong, i love my chucks. because they're...COMFORTABLE. EGADS! the same reason i like my black clogs: they're nice on the feet but also the back if you have to stand up for hours on end (unlike chucks, sadly). and they blend in a lot better under pants than chucks do, if i'm working one of those horrid jobs that wants you to look like a grown up. they're terrible to bike in, i'll allow. and once they start to wear out and lose their shape, they do take on a dreadfully birken-esque appearance and should be taken out to pasture.

erikka

sweet tea wrote: wait a minute, erikka, you're getting all snippy about shoes, and you're wearing chucks? i thought you had something slick going on after all that talk.

don't get me wrong, i love my chucks. because they're...COMFORTABLE. EGADS! the same reason i like my black clogs: they're nice on the feet but also the back if you have to stand up for hours on end (unlike chucks, sadly). and they blend in a lot better under pants than chucks do, if i'm working one of those horrid jobs that wants you to look like a grown up. they're terrible to bike in, i'll allow. and once they start to wear out and lose their shape, they do take on a dreadfully birken-esque appearance and should be taken out to pasture.

Actually I'm wearing these at my grown-up job where I have to wear a suit every day, much to my chagrin. They are suprisingly comfortable, and I am not a heels girl:

I staunchy stand by the chucks>ugly plastic clogs/brown hippie shoes. I'm not saying they're haute couture, but they're a helluva lot more attractive. I buy a pair every five years or so (just got light gray) and they last forever. I still have the first pair I bought back in junior high. When I have to wear something basic under pants I ususally go for sambas or flat boots.

Disclaimer: I own a pair of clogs (not crocs) for nursing school, purchased back when I worked in surgery. They're comfortable, I guess, when they're not coming off as I walk down the stairs. My feet have to "work" to keep them on and my shins get sore. Truth be told, I find my old running shoes far more comfortable. But let's make one thing clear: these shoes never have and never will be worn outside of a medical facility.

homeowner

Okay, erikka we may have to go shoe shoe shopping together because I love the sambas and the grown-up shoes. I too have a job that requires real shoes and therefore twice a year I am on the hunt for the heels that can be walked in for 8-10 hours a day. Flats are pretty much a no-no here and while I suspect that many of my co-workers are closet birken/croc/clog owners, entering the building in any of those would pretty much get me fired on the spot.

I've discovered that with slacks, the nice mid-heeled ankle boot is very comfortable and stylish

rockhound

That's pretty fucked up that in this day and age women are *REQUIRED* to wear fetish footwear to a corporate workplace or they will lose their jobs. And what the hell does it have to do with job performance?

If the men were *REQUIRED* as a condition of employment to wear horribly uncomfortable and unstable shoes that they couldn't walk home in during the next emergency, then you would see that dumbass discriminatory policy disappear in a heartbeat.

/hates conformists who aid and abet this bullshit. Working by choice as a dominatrix is one thing, having to cripple your feet for a stupid job dresscode is quite another.

alafairnadia

I have a pile of really sexy, uncomfortable shoes under my desk at work. I tend to walk in wearing my comfy shoes - sneakers, boots, flip flops - and then change under the desk. of course, I make sure that the comfy shoes "work" with the outfit I'm wearing - no skirt-suit, pantyhose and white reeboks for me.

doctorj

rockhound wrote: That's pretty fucked up that in this day and age women are *REQUIRED* to wear fetish footwear to a corporate workplace or they will lose their jobs. And what the hell does it have to do with job performance?

If the men were *REQUIRED* as a condition of employment to wear horribly uncomfortable and unstable shoes that they couldn't walk home in during the next emergency, then you would see that dumbass discriminatory policy disappear in a heartbeat.

/hates conformists who aid and abet this bullshit. Working by choice as a dominatrix is one thing, having to cripple your feet for a stupid job dresscode is quite another.

I agree with you, but I do wonder in this day and age whether there's a component of corporate females doing this to themselves, rather than just corporate males propagating stupid rules for women.

whyfi

doctorj wrote: I agree with you, but I do wonder in this day and age whether there's a component of corporate females doing this to themselves, rather than just corporate males propagating stupid rules for women.

A good point. Many men in the corporate world go well beyond the dress code minimums to convey their (perceived) importance/power. I'm sure that more than a few women do the same.

erikka

rockhound wrote: That's pretty fucked up that in this day and age women are *REQUIRED* to wear fetish footwear to a corporate workplace or they will lose their jobs. And what the hell does it have to do with job performance?

If the men were *REQUIRED* as a condition of employment to wear horribly uncomfortable and unstable shoes that they couldn't walk home in during the next emergency, then you would see that dumbass discriminatory policy disappear in a heartbeat.

/hates conformists who aid and abet this bullshit. Working by choice as a dominatrix is one thing, having to cripple your feet for a stupid job dresscode is quite another.

Where did I say that it was required? I like those shoes and don't think they're the slightest bit "yes sir may I have another". There is no rule at this company or any other company I've ever worked about heel size. I just want to look nice at work and a hot pencil skirt and rockports isn't quite the look I'm going for.

ando

The first time I saw crocs was back around last December when a friend showed me an orange pair she received from her sister in San Francisco. Disgust for crocs has nothing to do with their comfort level, it's their complete disregard for any aesthetic and the eye-searing pain they cause.
I'm sure segways are amazingly convenient, too. There are very few people that can seriously pull these things off. For most of us, they would've cost us our lunch money back in school. Why delude ourselves now.
I don't want to hear any of the enivronment stuff either. Canvas shoes will be long gone before Crocs ever break down.