Crocs

[clemenzina]

Hope I'm not duplicating the thread, I think it's not been renewed since the new forum started.

Edit: I'm nearly at the end and realise what a ramble this is - but I know you're all very forgiving

I've just bought my first pair of Crocs. They're Caymans. I was horrified when they arrived to see how big they are - I had particularly asked the seller if I needed to order a 'size down' like with FlyFlots, she said 'No, order your usual size'.

They sat here for a week un-unhinged until I saw the South African girl on IW say that they're meant to be worn big, so I took the plunge and was most impressed when I had a little walk around the flat in them.

However, they seem to be made for chunky feet with short toes, which I don't have. The way they fit makes my feet go forward and my big toe touches the end just enough to be uncomfortable - painful if I wore them to the shops. And my toenails catch in the holes (don't tell me to cut them, my chiropodist has already told me off for keeping them too short!).

What a bummer. I'll keep them for slippers.

Any idea how to get the straps off? What'sername on IW thought she'd show us how to change the straps but had to get it done off-screen in the end.

Has anyone got a style without closed-in toes? Do you think a 'size down' would be necessary for them for slimmish feet?

Finished now

clemenzina

 

[LorraineJ]

I have the type (well two pairs) that you can pull the strap over to stop them falling off or wear them as mules. I find them comfortable, but your feet do resemble Minnie Mouse, as they are huge. The only downside apart from being chunky is they offer no support and you do have to walk differently in them.

Costco are doing them for £23 a pair ATM, the cheapest I have seen in the UK.

 

[Sara]

You are meant to go a size UP in Crocs - then your toe wont hit the end of the shoe.
I have Caymans amongst a couple of other styles - I think if you actually tried to get the strap off altogether, unless you have some kind of precise instrument, you may make a bit of a mess of the shoe.
The strap can be pushed forward to just sit on the front of the shoe so that they can be worn as mules.

The Caymans are meant to be wide - just the styling of them.

I also have a pair of Scutes (open toe) and did not go down a size.

http://www.crocs.com/products/footwear/sizing/

 

[grovesy]

I don't have any myself but lots of collegues do, some wear the strap over the upper part so they are more of a mule.

 

[clemenzina]

You are meant to go a size UP in Crocs - then your toe wont hit the end of the shoe.

I think that only applies if you are a half-size. If these were any bigger I'd be able to get both feet in one shoe

I think the problem is that they're so big that my foot slides forward, there's so much room over the top of the foot that there's nothing to stop it. If I sit my heels in the well of the back of the shoe, there's three-quarters of an inch space at the big toe.

I didn't get alerts of replies here, so have been researching and found the size info - you'd think, if the fitting is so crucial, they'd do half sizes.

I printed off the fitting chart and checked my (slightly) longer foot - it's M6 W8, which is what I've got. Maybe wearing them indoors for a while will create a footbed shape so that my feet don't go forward.

Crocs say that the straps can be stretched, I'll do that too. Although I can easily get my finger inside each strap, I'll blister if they touch. I'm weariing them like Grovesy's colleagues at the mo but would like to get them off.

And... I've been looking at Scutes, I think they could be the answer - overall I love the feel of my Caymans, I can tell they'd be great if I can get the fit right.

Oh to have normal feet yet there's not a bunion in sight!

Thanks, girlz

clemenzina

 

[mediastar]

Be grateful you don't have a bunion, I have one that's trying to grow, thank you my dear mama couldn't you have left me your tidy gene? That's why I do fancy a pair of crocs, don't fancy buying from IW though!

 

[Sarah&AmyG]

I have alot of Problems with my feet especially my Right foot as I suffer with a Condition called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) & due to the Pain the RSD Causes I have lived in My Crocs Summer, Autumn, Winter & Spring my Right foot due to the RSD is sensitive to anything that touches my Skin or Scars on that foot due to 2 Failed Op's if I wear anything other than My Crocs
I am in absolute agony with the Pain of the RSD.I have actually ordered a Pair of Crocs Mammoth with the Sheepskin Like inner Sock so I can wear my Crocs in the Winter without getting Cold feet like I did Last Winter.don't know what I would do if they ever stopped Making Crocs.The only gripe i do have with Ideal world with their Crocs is the Sizes they have available I Take a Size 9 & wish with the Lady's Crocs on their Shows that they would go up to Size 9 & not stop at Size 8 as their Largest Size.

 

[beauty junkie]

Littlewoods catalogue have Crocs for £15 in their sale you have to hunt for them mind as it took me a while to find them.

 

[clemenzina]

well i have the bright pink crocs the ones that go through the toes

Did you get the same size as you normally wear?

My FlyFlot toe-posts are useless, the toe-post is too long so they fly off my feet and I have to shuffle along - they're a size 5 and I take a 6 normally. (Incidentally, they are black and when I get a hot flush/sweat the dye comes off )

Littlewoods have got the Alice style, restricted colours/sizes, for £16:

http://www.littlewoods.com/rf/navig...tem_id=15&Mis_item_loc_id=1&product=447376579

clemenzina

 

[donna255]

Sara is correct you go up a size. They feel very loose at first but you need to wear them for a short while and your foot embeds into them and suddenly they do not fly off etc.

I bought mine at a place that sold nothing but Crocs and I take size 3 but was told to you have to go up a size. I did try on the size 3 anyway and they fit perfectly but my toes nearly came up to the end and the guy said you need to go up to a 4.

There are lots of look alike Crocs not the real ones and they do nothing for you posture etc as the real ones do.

 

[clemenzina]

...you go up a size.
I bought mine at a place that sold nothing but Crocs and I take size 3 but was told to you have to go up a size.

You would need to 'go up a size', because they don't make a UK size 3 - there'd have to be a "W5-and-a-half there. From Crocs' site, the following conversion is interesting, the way the EU sizes overlap:

Women sizes
Size conversion
US UK EU
W4 1 33-34
W5 2 34-35
W6 4 36-37
W7 5 37-38
W8 6 38-39
W9 7 39-40
W10 8 40-41
W11 9 42-43
W12 10 43-44
W13 11 45-46

Apparently the Beach style (the original) only comes in Small, Medium, Large, etc, so they made Caymans in more sizes "for the in-betweeners", they say.

This has become my latest obsession, I hope it doesn't turn out to be too expensive - Crocs are not ideally bought by post because (the Americans say) not only the sizes vary but the actual feel of the material is different according to where they're made.

clemenzina

 

[Sara]

This has become my latest obsession, I hope it doesn't turn out to be too expensive - Crocs are not ideally bought by post because (the Americans say) not only the sizes vary but the actual feel of the material is different according to where they're made.

clemenzina

I've got five pairs Clemenzina, don't ask .... two pairs of Caymans, one pair of Scutes and two pairs of Mary Jane (I think Jayne of Just Beauty collects Mary Jane as well! ) - unfortunately, I have BIG feet but still had to go up a size in them all - like Donna I bought mine initially from a Croc specialist shop and went on the advice they gave me.
Have since bought a pair online though as I was confident in the sizing of my previous purchases.

 

[amanda138a]

i love my crocs and i now have over 7 pairs, in various styles, if its the caymen you have simply push the bar over and wear as a mule, or if you look they almost"button" on to the sides on the croc button and come off that way you can actually buyt a\ different strap which i feel is more secure particularly for little people (my daughter has 3 pairs age 5!) they mary jane style is very comfortable

i buy mine from a company called http://lookatmycrazyshoes.com/index.php/?source=aw

 

[clemenzina]

if its the caymen you have simply push the bar over and wear as a mule

I've had mine like that since the start, but am still having to stretch them, whether I want them over the top or around tha heel.

they almost "button" on to the sides on the croc button and come off that way

What way? Is it OK to use brute force to pull them off? I can't see how they fix/unfix, that was my original question but I probably smothered it with too much detail

I won't be buying another style unless I can find a company that accepts returns. Two days ago I wore my Caymans out shopping - this involved walking uphill, and the top of my smaller foot touched the inside edge of the shoe-top (!?), and I've ended up with no skin on that area and it's very sore The pimples inside the 'rubber' caused the blister. The larger foot (the one with the big toe problem) was perfectly OK.

Also... there's more When I get a hot flush (which is even more frequent since I had to come off HRT), I slide around in them and am in danger of breaking my ankles/neck.

PLEASE ADVISE HOW TO GET THE STRAPS OFF

clemenzina *sob*

 

[Sammi]

a knife Clemenzina??

 

[mak]

croc stretching ! ( no animals hurt )

i have found that one of the benefits of the material used in the manufacture of the shoes is that they can be stretched or shrunk with the heat of a hair dryer.

be careful and don apply too much heat or stretch too much in one go , i have made a pair wider ( need quiet wide fitting shoes ) and also stretched the strap on mine and it is now loose enough to wear both ways .

BE CAREFUL

hope this helps

 

[MajorDalby]

cheers for that tip Mak-I've got really hobbitish feet,so that's brill

 

[cedric]

I've just got myself a pair of the Sassari Crocs today.They are a wedge type mule and I wanted them for a cruise in October.I have been wearing them around the house all day,and they are really comfortable,and look quite smart too.

 

[amanda138a]

you should literally be able to b utton the straps off, you see the little black "buttons" on the side with the crocodile? this is where the strap buttons on, so it may need a little force but it should just come off

amanda

 

[clemenzina]

You're all too late Five minutes after I posted the above, last Saturday, I was stretching the strap of one Croc, in accordance with their instructions and as I had done previously, when one of the buttons undid itself when the rivet unpopped. "Ooh", I thought, "so that's how it works", so I attacked the other side and it promptly ripped through the plastic

Having thus seen the button-holes I got the strap off the other shoe but I can't unpop the rivets, so I've got one shoe with a rip and no buttons on it, and the other shoe with no rip but with the buttons still on.

And I wore them to shuffle around Sainsbury's today, with too-long trousers on so you couldn't see whether there were buttons on or not

clemenzina