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Crocs and backs

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We're moving over to the dark side later today and have decided to get the children crocs. We're fed up of their smelly feet in clarks doodles with no socks (actually, it's quite sweet and causes a lot of joking and fun teasing, but, I'm not convinced it can be any good for their feet!). Also, I'm getting too fat to bend down to do up my merrells easily, and often find I have to re-do all the straps as a helpful toddler likes undoing velcro! So I want some too. What I'm worried about for me is whether or not they'll make my pelvis ache. Does anyone with a bad or dodgy back have crocs and find they're good or bad? We're off out at 10 to get these things, so a quick response would be really appreciated :)

 

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Wow! Thanks for responding so quickly! It's my sacro-iliac joints that I have problems with and so far, Merrells (walking sandals) and proper shoes have been the only thing that doesn't make it really bad when I'm pregnant.

 

My back has been dodgy on and off and I wear Crocs most of the time.

 

I'm assuming you're saying it's been dodgy for ever, not since wearing Crocs, Egluntine? :?

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Well I would hardly carry on wearing them if I thought they were the cause of the problem would I? :D

 

I twanged my back last year lifting something ridiculously small and turning at the same time. It grumbles occasionally if I am not careful.

 

I find Crocs very comfortable, they do not exacerbate my back problemette at all and I walk for miles in them.

 

I hope that clears up any confusion.

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heres a link

to the sizes 1 - 6 ones...

 

and here are the cheap kids ones....

 

 

 

the kids ones are only cheap in grape

 

OMG they are cheap.

 

Right, I got a cheap copy pair as chicken shoes. How does the sizing work on proper crocs. I'm usually a 5ish - are the cayman really big and sloppy as I've read elsewhere. Thanks

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Well I would hardly carry on wearing them if I thought they were the cause of the problem would I? :D.

 

Well I did think that, but thought I'd better check - you never know sometimes! :lol:

 

We've been and tried loads on in Brantanos then ordered them online - I didn't get the message about Great Universal in time, sadly, but never mind! Hopefully they'll be here tomorrow. the children are very excited, and, as well as all your helpful messages, someone else who gets a lot of pelvic pain in pregnancy said that hers improved even before her baby was born after she wore crocs for a while! So I'm very excited and also slightly annoyed I didn't give in earlier on :?

 

I wanted grape or purple (to match our eglu - sad, aren't I!), but they didn't have them in stock so I've got pink, as has DD2 - DD1 has orange coming, and DD3 has turquoise to grow into (she's just a little bit too small for their smallest size).

 

Right, I got a cheap copy pair as chicken shoes. How does the sizing work on proper crocs. I'm usually a 5ish - are the cayman really big and sloppy as I've read elsewhere. Thanks

 

My friend who has had crocs for her family for the last year told me not to bother with the imitation ones as she did once and the children both got blisters :roll: and also told me to look up how to size them on the main crocs website - really helpful. They do feel a little loose, but they're meant to, apparently, and it's easy to tell which size you should be once you try some on. We printed off the sizing chart and it was spot on for all of us.

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I'm sure you'll be pleased with them when they arrive 8)

 

As Clare said, mine have helped with both my knee injury and back problems.

 

I have also bought the imitations to use in one of the outbuildings and they are not a patch on the real thing. I use them as slip-ons in the outbuildings but certainly wouldn't want to walk far in them. They stay hard and inflexible and do not mould to your feet in the same way.

 

I have just ordered some imitation Crocs Athens though :? - I have originals in black but I don't like the mix and match colours in the range, I wanted just plain pink.....Crocs pink ones have an orange( :vom: ) footbed.

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As Clare said, mine have helped with both my knee injury and back problems.

 

Yay! I also have a wierd knee thing where my knee cap isn't aligned quite right - it's more painful sometimes than others. Great news that I might find my knee better as well as my back/pelvis :)

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:evil: Really fed up now. The crocs have arrived, the girls' are fine except DD2 wants to wear them on the wrong feet. But, despite doing the size chart, and then trying them on in a shop and finding the size below too small, they're too big for me. Sad, hormonal woman that I am, I'm crying now :cry: - I was so looking forward to comfortable walking, and I've cut the flipping label off so I don't expect they'll take them back, and even if they did, what's to say the next size down *is* actually too small like I suspected?

 

How much too big is too big? Can anyone help me decide whether to keep them or whether to try and send them back? :cry:

 

Sorry to be so pathetic!

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The size down is too small.

 

I didn't believe it either and stubbornly ignored advice, so my black ones can only be worn with the strap over the front.

 

If I wear it at the back my toes catch on the front all the time.

 

Why not potter about in the house with them on and see how you go. :D

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The guide I was given to the sizing by the lovely woman at Jelly Egg was that if your toes are touching the front, you should have 1cm of room at the back.

 

My pairs are all size 3 and I take a 2.5; they are 'boaty' on me because I have slim feet, but so very comfortable. 8)

 

Blimey! There's well over a cm at the back! I wore them today in the end - took the girls out (children, that is, not chickens!) to town on the bus, saw a fantastic free street show with some friends, walked to a museum and then got the bus back - that's the sort of amount of walking that would normally make the back of my pelvis very achey and uncomfortable and could easily make it really painful. guess what? No pain or discomfort AT ALL with the crocs, despite their huge size! Hurrah!

 

And my friend's crocs (had them a couple of years) are as big too, and she manages ok :) So I'm well pleased now.

 

DD1 put hers on as soon as they came, and wore them the whole of the rest of the day, including in the garden after we got home while she ran around with nothing else on :lol: She did look very 8) all day long - they're bright orange :lol:

 

DD2 isn't very impressed with hers and wouldn't wear them :? Hopefully she'll get used to them soon - maybe once her little shark jibbitz arrives.

 

DD3's are just a wee bit too big for her to walk in easily, but we expected that as she's just too little for the smallest size - we got them for her to grow into.

 

DH loves his and he looks very 8) in them.

 

One more question...can you drive in them??? I put my merrells on to drive to yoga tonight and found them really tight after wearing crocs all day! Would love to know if they're ok to drive in before I risk my family's life by trying it out!

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I drive in mine without any problems.

 

Clare, did you say that the smaller ones were far too small? It might just be worth trying them on in a smaller size as there's not much between the sizes. I originally purchased one each in sizes 2 and 3 as I wasn't sure. Jelly Egg kindly sent me a Freepost label to return the unwanted pair, which they refunded.

 

You might want to keep a bigger pair to wear with thick wooly socks int he winter. I have a pair of black mammoths (size 4) that I wear as slippers indoors and I team them with hand-knitted stripey socks in the colder months.

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Clare, did you say that the smaller ones were far too small? It might just be worth trying them on in a smaller size as there's not much between the sizes.

 

They did seem too small when I tried them on - whether or not they're 'far too small' is another matter. Might go and try them on again, though, but can't send these ones back now I've worn them all day however...

 

You might want to keep a bigger pair to wear with thick wooly socks int he winter.

 

...that is a fab idea. Someone told me Great Universal was selling them at £15 so will maybe get hold of the next size down and see if they'd do better during the summer. Can't really justify another pair at full price at the moment :(

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