important public safety alert! (crocs)

according to the word on the street, anyone caught wearing crocs in prospect or crown heights will be shot on sight.

whats a croc?

i mean i know what a croc is like in crocodile but is there something else called a croc?

Subject: Re: important public safety alert!

young snitch wrote: according to the word on the street, anyone caught wearing crocs in prospect or crown heights will be shot on sight.

You know, I might actually be okay with that.

Subject: Re: important public safety alert!

young snitch wrote: according to the word on the street, anyone caught wearing crocs in prospect or crown heights will be shot on sight.

Uh oh, someone ventured on the wrong side of Flatbush!

Fashion atrocities: uggs out, crocs in.

i wear crocs but mainly just in the garden. it's easy to rinse the dirt off.

so can someone explain or post pics to what they are :P. i never heard of em before.

sorry i don't know how to post pics but here's a link:

click here

oh here we go...

Yea I'm kinda sick of those things already.

If Mario Batali is spotted in prospect or crown heights, he must be capture alive.

those are the fugliest thing i ever seen in my life and i seen alot of ugly things.

VeggieQueen wrote: i wear crocs but mainly just in the garden. it's easy to rinse the dirt off.

brrrrratttttt. dirt nap.

Crocs rule!

i have to say they are really comfortable. i'd love to wear them out in public but i don't dare... they are pretty ugly. my pair is dark brown... not neon puke green or psycho clockwork orange.

i hope the season is almost over. unless people start wearing wool socks with them and carry them into the winter months.

when was this thing invented? i never seen this stuff before. than again i never look at peoples feet :P.

sorry guys
this argument went out once women started wearing running shoes with suits to go to work

can't say i agree with it
but when it comes to comfort
you can't win

and while i prefer to keep my crocs under cover
(yes garden and rain and paint splattered neon orange )

i seem to have spent my last 3 summers exclusively in flip flops
and i consider myself a foot wear snob

go figure

yeah. I'm a sucker for comfort to the point where I won't try on ugly-comfy shoes anymore for fear of finding something I can't live without.

I mean, in college I discovered Birkenstocks, in Texas I realized that cowboy boots (the good ones, like Justin, Frye & Tony Lama) ARE absurdly comfy, and in NYC I fell in love with Reef & Teva flip flops. enough with the ugly/notsexy shoes. :? :?

You know it's those little Oriental slippers that I really despise, and super pointy business shoes.

Subject: croc a holic

Hey, friends, why so hard on people's footwear?
You are actually sitting at home, with precious down time, reeling about plastic shoes?
Bring on the crocs and their bright, happy colors.
Cheers.

thanks for sharing the mellow, parrothead!

you know . . .
friends of mine did a thousand mile motorcycle tour in Vietnam in the all-terrain version of these. They came back and didn't want to take them off.

Of course, people in Vietnam laughed at their shoes constantly...

prospect heights clearly needs to step its collective grips game up. you people let the terrorists win.

http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/02/18/the-crocs/

Great quotes from the above blog post -

"Finally, the defenders of the Crocs they will tell you that the Crocs they cost only $35, which seems cheap, until one realizes that they are manufactured out of the plastic rings used to hold the packs of six. Not the good value at half the price."

"For these reasons, the Manolo he has consigned the Crocs to the Gallery of the Horrors"

i don't think people are grasping the gravity of this struggle. in a neighborhood at the tipping point, we must cast fist-sized stones at infidels who seek to plunge prospect heights into a park slopian zeitgeist of ugly footwear, cornell sweatshirts, faces dusted with cupcake crumbs and general unflyness. wearing a messenger bag does not mean you're ballllllliiiiin'.

young snitch wrote: i don't think people are grasping the gravity of this struggle. in a neighborhood at the tipping point, we must cast fist-sized stones at infidels who seek to plunge prospect heights into a park slopian zeitgeist of ugly footwear, cornell sweatshirts, faces dusted with cupcake crumbs and general unflyness. wearing a messenger bag does not mean you're ballllllliiiiin'.

Well then could you PLEASE, PLEASE tell all the guys stylin' around the bodega that patent leater belongs only on little girl's Mary Janes? You can't roll on me and try to eyeball me with patent leather high-tops. It's not fly. Especially when your patent leather is blue or red. :roll:

young snitch wrote: i don't think people are grasping the gravity of this struggle. in a neighborhood at the tipping point, we must cast fist-sized stones at infidels who seek to plunge prospect heights into a park slopian zeitgeist of ugly footwear, cornell sweatshirts, faces dusted with cupcake crumbs and general unflyness. wearing a messenger bag does not mean you're ballllllliiiiin'.

PS has the least fashionable footwear per capita outside Burlington, Vermont. What is up with all this hippie "off the couch and out on the street" shit?! People still wear those shoes from the 90's that have velcro straps all over them--that shit wasn't cool when ravers wore it so surrender the PLUR and tie your fucking shoes. Don't even get me started on the clogs--walking around with your cla-CLOMP, cla-CLOMPs like some sort of displaced yuppie Dutchman. And all those earth mother, various-shades-of-poop-brown recycled-everything sandals are the definition of "boner killer". What is this obsession with comfort and being comfortable all the time? If god wanted you to be comfortable 24/7 he would have made you with marshmellows for feet. Take those hideous orange boats off your feet and put on some grown-up shoes!

Well...at least wearing that shit means you'll never have to worry about getting jacked for your kicks.

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.

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 which begets stained t-shirts which begets a host of other fashion maladies. these boards are flush with people bemoaning the singles scene and bars of park slope -- maybe there wouldn't be such a dearth of attractive people in the area if both males and females stopped stumbling out of the house looking like they rolled out of bed in search of organic soy and walnut muffins.

don't let it happen here. at least the kids with fake bapes on the corner are trying.

young snitch wrote: i don't think people are grasping the gravity of this struggle. in a neighborhood at the tipping point, we must cast fist-sized stones at infidels who seek to plunge prospect heights into a park slopian zeitgeist of ... cornell sweatshirts... wearing a messenger bag does not mean you're ballllllliiiiin'.

Couldn't agree more...
I fucking hated those even when I was at Cornell. :x
At least people aren't pairing them with the white turtlenecks and white Cornell baseball caps here. :evil:

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

Snitch, I thought about you this evening. Sitting on the 3 train on my way home and a group of young hassids got on the train. I looked down and saw...one of them wearing a pair of black crocs!

I guess the apocalypse really is coming