9/17/07

Trippy Trends- What a 'Croc'


I Like trends, I believe that being a good dresser is important. Appearance in this day and age is sadly to say Almost everything. In a way it is understandable and in a way it is simply wrong because you can`t judge a book by its cover nor should you Jude a person solely on their appearance. (That is a completely different subject that can be blogged,maybe at a later time.) I got home last night and I always go to Yahoo and Check out the main Headlines and this one caught my eye...It happened to be on "Crocs"


Watch the Video to this article here:

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/242/popup/index.php?cl=4131361

My question is...What do you expect wearing plastic shoes with holes in them just to look "cool" or because the Jones`s kids have them? Its like running on a treadmill at full speed with flip-flops on. It`s not gonna happen. Now granted if you watched the video I feel bad for the kid who got his toe hurt but Come on Mom and Dad....LOL! Why put your kid in danger over an ugly pair of shoes just so he 'fits in' I enjoy reading up on Fashion and following the trends - I subscribe to GQ.Men or Boys DO NOT belong in a pair of crocs. I am all about the taking care of yourself, grooming properly and being fashionable to a certain extent.There is a line and that crosses it (LOL!) Although I can remember so pretty embarrassing stuff that my mom put me through when she used to dress me can you? Go ahead and confess...We all want to know!

In college there was always guys that would try to get away with wearing a suit and white socks.....Ha Ha!

Can you think of a trend that you followed that did`nt last very long or an embarrassing moment that you can think of when your mom dressed you for school?

Got Crocs? Be careful on the escalator

By SARAH KARUSH, Associated Press WriterMon Sep 17, 7:47 PM ET

At rail stations and shopping malls around the world, reports are popping up of people, particularly young children, getting their toes caught in escalators. The one common theme seems to be the clunky soft-soled clogs known by the name of the most popular brand, Crocs.

One of the nation's largest subway systems — the Washington Metro — has even posted ads warning riders about wearing such shoes on its moving stairways. The ads feature a photo of a crocodile, though they don't mention Crocs by name.

Four-year-old Rory McDermott got a Croc-clad foot caught in an escalator last month at a mall in northern Virginia. His mother managed to yank him free, but the nail on his big toe was almost completely ripped off, causing heavy bleeding.

At first, Rory's mother had no idea what caused the boy's foot to get caught. It was only later, when someone at the hospital remarked on Rory's shoes, that she began to suspect the Crocs and did an Internet search.

"I came home and typed in 'Croc' and 'escalator,' and all these stories came up," said Jodi McDermott, of Vienna, Va. "If I had known, those would never have been worn."

According to reports appearing across the United States and as far away as Singapore and Japan, entrapments occur because of two of the biggest selling points of shoes like Crocs: their flexibility and grip. Some report the shoes get caught in the "teeth" at the bottom or top of the escalator, or in the crack between the steps and the side of the escalator.

The reports of serious injuries have all involved young children. Crocs are commonly worn by children as young as 2. The company introduced shoes in its smallest size, 4/5, this past spring.

Niwot, Colo.-based Crocs Inc. said it does not keep records of the reasons for customer-service calls. But the company said it is aware of "very few" problems relating to accidents involving the shoes, which are made of a soft, synthetic resin.

"Thankfully, escalator accidents like the one in Virginia are rare," the company said in a statement.

In Japan, the government warned consumers last week that it has received 39 reports of sandals — mostly Crocs or similar products — getting stuck in escalators from late August through early September. Most of the reports appear to have involved small children, some as young as two years old.

Kazuo Motoya of Japan's National Institute of Technology and Evaluation said children may have more escalator accidents in part because they "bounce around when they stand on escalators, instead of watching where they place their feet."

In Singapore, a 2-year-old girl wearing rubber clogs — it's unclear what brand — had her big toe completely ripped off in an escalator accident last year, according to local media reports.

And at the Atlanta airport, a 3-year-old boy wearing Crocs suffered a deep gash across the top of his toes in June. That was one of seven shoe entrapments at the airport since May 1, and all but two of them involved Crocs, said Roy Springer, operations manager for the company that runs the airport terminal.

One U.S. retailer that caters to children, Mattel subsidiary American Girl, has posted signs in three locations directing customers wearing Crocs or flip-flop sandals to use elevators instead of escalators.

During the past two years, so-called "shoe entrapments" in the Washington subway have gone from being relatively rare to happening four or five times a week in the summer, though none has caused serious injuries, said Dave Lacosse, who oversees the subway's 588 escalators, the most of any U.S. transit system.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said escalator accidents caused more than 10,000 injuries last year, but the agency has few records of specific shoe problems. Only two shoe entrapments have been reported by consumers since the beginning of 2006. One reported in May involved "rubber footwear."

Agency spokesman Ed Kang urged people who have had problems to report them on the commission's Web site.

Crocs officials said they were working with the Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation on public education initiatives. But the group's executive director, Barbara Allen, said that's not true.

Allen said a Crocs official called her in September 2006 about possible cooperation, even suggesting the company might put a tag in its shoes with the foundation's Web address. But since that first contact, Crocs has not called, and nobody from the company will return Allen's calls, she said.

Washington Metro's Lacosse and other escalator experts say the best way to prevent shoe entrapments is to face the direction the stairs are moving, keep feet away from the sides and step over the teeth at the end.

Lacosse, of the Washington subway system, said he is personally skittish of Crocs and other soft-soled shoes.

"Would I wear them? No," he said. "And I tell my children not to wear them either."

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Associated Press Writer Carl Freire in Tokyo contributed to this report.

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On the Net:

Crocs Inc.: http://www.crocs.com/

Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation: http://www.eesf.org/

Consumer Product Safety Commission: http://www.cpsc.gov/




2 comments:

Unknown said...

Dude, I bought a pair of Crocs a while back. They are extremely comfortable, but they broke about 2 weeks after I bought them! POC!

Design.by.Kina said...

Those Crocks are extremely...undeniably

UGLY.


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