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fat_chris



Joined: 10 Sep 2003
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Love them or hate them, Crocs can be worn as indoor shoes here in Our Japan. They're all the rage among teachers at the high school where I work...for better or for worse.

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LITTLE PEACHES



Joined: 25 Jun 2009
Posts: 94
Location: ORANGE COUNTY, CA & TAMA, TOKYO, JAPAN

PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ahahahahahaa i hate crocs tooo...i'm hapy somebody else sees eye to eye on this topic with me...but maybe i'll have to find an alternative to crocs.
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fat_chris



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LITTLE PEACHES wrote:
I hate crocs too...I'm happy somebody else sees eye to eye on this topic with me...but maybe I'll have to find an alternative to crocs.


Ahem...I own two pairs of the sordid shoe, one for indoor use and one for outdoor use.

Perversely, my use of Crocs is a strictly Japan-only personal policy. I really don't think I would ever buy them and use them back in New York City.

Here in Shizuoka prefecture, Crocs have been wildly popular during these two short years that I have inhabited the Land of the Rising Sun.

Cool

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azarashi sushi



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

At my gym in Tokyo, CROCS were used as the toilet slippers.

I hate them.
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natsume



Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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Location: Chongqing, China

PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fat_chris wrote:




Perversely, my use of Crocs is a strictly Japan-only personal policy. I really don't think I would ever buy them and use them back in New York City.



Ditto. I can't imagine I could bring myself to wear them anywhere other than the beach back in California, but here, they are totally ideal and functional for the hot, wet summer weather. Plus, it seems like half the people in suburban Japan are wearing them anyway, during the summer. When everybody else is doing it, I find I am not so self conscious about...wearing clown shoes.
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Apsara



Joined: 20 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are all kinds of Crocs anyway. I don't own any of the original big floppy ones, but I have a pair of rain boots, and some Mary-Jane style shoes that don't look in any way like the original Crocs. They also do some pretty good flip-flops.

For an indication of how popular Crocs are here, there's a 4-storey building in Aoyama which is all a Crocs shop (it's a pretty skinny building admittedly), and on weekends it is packed.
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desu



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think this picture says it all...

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/03/27/funny-pictures-crocs/
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