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I think my mom didn't realize that I have 2 separate wishlists. She usually hates buying me clothing because she's afraid it won't fit me, even if I put the size in the instructions (don't ask - it is *very* important to my mom that other people be happy, and she doesn't want me to be unhappy with her choice of gifts). But this year, she *only* bought me things from my clothing wishlist.
2 years ago, I separated my clothing into its own wishlist because she and my dad were getting overwhelmed by the sheer size of my wishlist. So now I have 3 - a clothing one, a gift-card one, and an everything-else one (I also have an "adult" one but mom doesn't need to see that one). Anyway, mom bought me a pair of shoes I had on my wishlist. When Crocs first came out, I hated them. I thought the clogs were the ugliest shoes I'd ever seen and I refused to wear them no matter how comfortable they were (and, it turns out, I didn't find them comfortable either).
Then they started making *shoes*. A former friend of mine, who is seriously high-femme, was wearing an interesting pair of high heels and I commented on them. She said they were Crocs and they were so comfortable, that they were the only heels she could wear for an entire weekend at a sci-fi convention, on her feet all day, every day.
I was impressed. So I went to their website and fell in love with their high heeled wedges and a pair of sandals. I bought the sandals at a local store, where I could try them on, and they are now the only shoes I'll bother to wear unless close-toed shoes are required for some reason (like work). I also discovered that I can't bake without wearing them because standing barefoot on the hard kitchen floor for that long hurts my lower back, but the Crocs sandals make it possible to stand and walk for hours without pain.
So I tried the wedges. I've written before about how comfortable and cute they are. When I go dancing, my dance shoes are floor-exclusive - they cannot be worn off the hardwood dance floor because of their special soles. So I need shoes to wear to and from the event. I want to wear my Crocs because, even in shoes made for comfort while dancing, after 4 hours of it, my feet are killing me and I can barely walk. But my sandals are not attractive. They're not as ugly as the clogs, but they're not high fashion either, and certainly not suitable for the femme attire I dress up in to dance.
Enter the wedges. When I am *literally* hobbling off the dance floor, I put my wedges on and stand up, and instantly my feet stop hurting. I have been known to walk around the block for another 2 hours after dancing, while wearing my Crocs wedges. So I now have them in 2 colors and a third pair of mary-jane style wedges.
Between my retail job (which believes its employees should never sit down and always look "busy"), and my backstage job (which requires unloading trucks, pushing cases from the loading dock to the room we are setting up, and then staging our storage room across the convention center from the event room), I walk an average of 5-15 miles per day.
Yes, I know it's a big gap, but some days I sit down backstage and only have to walk from the parking lot (a mile away) to my room, and then from my room to the break room (about half a mile away, no I'm not being hyperbolic), so I can get away with about 5 miles of walking. But make enough .5 mile trips from the dock to the room, and 15 miles comes quick enough.
When I'm not actively lifting heavy things and therefore wearing my steel-toe boots, I wear my Converse high tops with special insoles. These are very comfortable and helpful. But after 15 miles, I still wish I could be wearing my Crocs. So now Crocs has sneakers, and an all-black pair. So I put them on my wishlist and my mom actually got them for me for Christmas. I've worn them twice now at my retail job AND I LOVE THEM!
They have the squishy, bouncy Crocs sole & insole, and the rest of the shoe is made of something like Neoprene so it's very stretchy and "huggy". I really wish they made high-tops because I have not worn low-top sneakers since before Reebok high-tops came in fashion back in the '80s. I'm really not a fan of low-top shoes, but I was willing to try it out for the sake of Crocs sneakers.
If you need a good pair of walking shoes that aren't specially formulated for some kind of exercise or sport that you're doing, I'd recommend trying out one of their styles of sneakers. If you can, visit a Crocs store to try them on first, but if you find Crocs to be comfortable at all, you will probably like these sneakers. They do have other styles, as well. And for those who wear larger sizes and/or prefer "masculine" styles (not that there's a big difference between the masc and femme styles of tennis shoes), they also have this style they call the Swiftwater Hiker, which I actually like better but they don't make in my small size: http://www.crocs.com/p/mens-swiftwater-hiker/203392.html
I think my mom didn't realize that I have 2 separate wishlists. She usually hates buying me clothing because she's afraid it won't fit me, even if I put the size in the instructions (don't ask - it is *very* important to my mom that other people be happy, and she doesn't want me to be unhappy with her choice of gifts). But this year, she *only* bought me things from my clothing wishlist.2 years ago, I separated my clothing into its own wishlist because she and my dad were getting overwhelmed by the sheer size of my wishlist. So now I have 3 - a clothing one, a gift-card one, and an everything-else one (I also have an "adult" one but mom doesn't need to see that one). Anyway, mom bought me a pair of shoes I had on my wishlist. When Crocs first came out, I hated them. I thought the clogs were the ugliest shoes I'd ever seen and I refused to wear them no matter how comfortable they were (and, it turns out, I didn't find them comfortable either).
Then they started making *shoes*. A former friend of mine, who is seriously high-femme, was wearing an interesting pair of high heels and I commented on them. She said they were Crocs and they were so comfortable, that they were the only heels she could wear for an entire weekend at a sci-fi convention, on her feet all day, every day.
I was impressed. So I went to their website and fell in love with their high heeled wedges and a pair of sandals. I bought the sandals at a local store, where I could try them on, and they are now the only shoes I'll bother to wear unless close-toed shoes are required for some reason (like work). I also discovered that I can't bake without wearing them because standing barefoot on the hard kitchen floor for that long hurts my lower back, but the Crocs sandals make it possible to stand and walk for hours without pain.
So I tried the wedges. I've written before about how comfortable and cute they are. When I go dancing, my dance shoes are floor-exclusive - they cannot be worn off the hardwood dance floor because of their special soles. So I need shoes to wear to and from the event. I want to wear my Crocs because, even in shoes made for comfort while dancing, after 4 hours of it, my feet are killing me and I can barely walk. But my sandals are not attractive. They're not as ugly as the clogs, but they're not high fashion either, and certainly not suitable for the femme attire I dress up in to dance.
Enter the wedges. When I am *literally* hobbling off the dance floor, I put my wedges on and stand up, and instantly my feet stop hurting. I have been known to walk around the block for another 2 hours after dancing, while wearing my Crocs wedges. So I now have them in 2 colors and a third pair of mary-jane style wedges.
Between my retail job (which believes its employees should never sit down and always look "busy"), and my backstage job (which requires unloading trucks, pushing cases from the loading dock to the room we are setting up, and then staging our storage room across the convention center from the event room), I walk an average of 5-15 miles per day.
Yes, I know it's a big gap, but some days I sit down backstage and only have to walk from the parking lot (a mile away) to my room, and then from my room to the break room (about half a mile away, no I'm not being hyperbolic), so I can get away with about 5 miles of walking. But make enough .5 mile trips from the dock to the room, and 15 miles comes quick enough.
When I'm not actively lifting heavy things and therefore wearing my steel-toe boots, I wear my Converse high tops with special insoles. These are very comfortable and helpful. But after 15 miles, I still wish I could be wearing my Crocs. So now Crocs has sneakers, and an all-black pair. So I put them on my wishlist and my mom actually got them for me for Christmas. I've worn them twice now at my retail job AND I LOVE THEM!
They have the squishy, bouncy Crocs sole & insole, and the rest of the shoe is made of something like Neoprene so it's very stretchy and "huggy". I really wish they made high-tops because I have not worn low-top sneakers since before Reebok high-tops came in fashion back in the '80s. I'm really not a fan of low-top shoes, but I was willing to try it out for the sake of Crocs sneakers.
If you need a good pair of walking shoes that aren't specially formulated for some kind of exercise or sport that you're doing, I'd recommend trying out one of their styles of sneakers. If you can, visit a Crocs store to try them on first, but if you find Crocs to be comfortable at all, you will probably like these sneakers. They do have other styles, as well. And for those who wear larger sizes and/or prefer "masculine" styles (not that there's a big difference between the masc and femme styles of tennis shoes), they also have this style they call the Swiftwater Hiker, which I actually like better but they don't make in my small size: http://www.crocs.com/p/mens-swiftwater-hiker/203392.html
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