[LarryMullins]

> Crocs became popular recently but for a decade or so you would be made fun of by ANYONE if you wore them.

I believe they were selling like hotcakes that entire time. Popular but unfashionable, like cargo shorts.

[atdrummond]

Company almost went under for a time: https://socialfactor.com/blog/how-crocs-came-back-from-the-b...

[asdff]

From what I remember it was either kids who were too young to pick out their own clothes who had them, and then also adults who stopped caring about what their clothes looked like. If you were in the age between those two points in life, you avoided them like the plague. My thesis is that these young kids simply grew up continuing to wear crocs, now they are in their early 20s and the marketing focus is on them now.

[teawrecks]

Something tells me you've been defending your foot fashion choices for a long while now ;)

[LarryMullins]

Hah, no. But I do confess to once owning cargo shorts..