For interviews, product samples or other media related queries, please contact our PR Department at publicrelations@crocs.com.
Back to News
Crocs
Gray’s Sporting Journal, Nov 1, 2004
A perennial problem for anglers who fish along shore or from boats is what to wear for shoes. Felt soles are solid in the river but slippery in a drift boat. Sea boots are good on dirty days but too hot when the sun’s out. Sandals are variably comfortable but leave your feet unprotected, and most of the soles mark decks. The ubiquitous Top-Siders and their clones are comfortable, nonmarking and skid-resistant, but seawater cracks the leather models, and after a week in the tropics the running-shoe styles smell like a 14-year-old’s gym bag. Which leaves Crocs.
Crocs are the absolute hottest trend in amphibious footwear. Looking like an earth-muffin’s geeky plastic clog with a fold-down heel strap, scuppers at the water line and grapeshot-perforated topsides, Crocs are made from a soft closed-cell resin that feels like a marshmallow Circus Peanut, weighs 12 ounces a pair, ais nonskid, nonmarking, antibacterial, and floats. They’re also the most comfortable shoes anyone who’s ever worn them has ever worn, whether a doctor or a nurse or a teacher or a chef or an Appalachian-Trail hiker or an Americas Cup deck ape or a whitewater river guide. Or me. I remove my Crocs only to sleep, or when the snow drifts higher than the scuppers (Crocs stick to ice like lumberjack’s calks).
If you’re on your feet a lot, especially in wet or slippery environments, Crocs will change your life, and for $30 to $50 (depending on style). Their only drawback: you’ll have to appear in public wearing the Currently Coolest Shoes among 14-year-old-girls.
Download: Crocs.pdf
read more…