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By Cris | | Inventions
I assure you, these crocs do not bite.
- Crocs are a type of shoe that have become popular in contemporary casual footwear, and they were invented in the county of Boulder, in Colorado in the United States.
- Crocs have a shapesimilar to aclog, and they haveholes at the top and the side thatallow for airflow; movement of foreign objects or water out ofthe shoes; anddecoration of the shoes.
- Crocs are made of a special type of foam resin known as ‘Croslite’ or ‘Levirex’, which is anethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) material, and it is soft and light-weight, generally making them comfortable to wear.
- Lyndon Hanson, Scott Seamans, and George Boedecker invented Crocs and co-founded the company, and the idea is said to have come about on a sailing excursion.
- The design of Crocs was intended as a lightweight, waterproof shoe with good grip for boaters, and as such were first distributed in 2002 ata boat show.
- Crocs were patented in 2006, bythe company of the same name, which has since manufactured a variety of lightweight shoes.
- The colours used for Crocs are oftenbright, andthey now come in a wide variety of colours and styles, while some versions feature no holes.
- Crocs have been particularly popular in casual fashion, however, they are oftenlabelled as an ‘ugly’ shoe, and they commonly used for outdoor activities like gardening or walking on the beach.
- As of 2016, at least100 million pairs ofCrocs had been sold,though many cheap imitations of the shoes have also been purchasedsince they were first released for sale.
- Crocs are able to be decorated and customised with charms made by Jibbitz, a company now owned by the shoe company, by placing the charms in the holes situated on the top of the shoe.
Bibliography:
About Crocs, 2016, Crocs, Inc, http://www.crocsaustralia.com.au/about_crocs/about-crocs,en_AU,pg.html
Bhasin K & Townsend M, A Chip Off the Old Croc: The Ugly Shoe Is Back, 2015, Bloomberg, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-01/a-chip-off-the-old-croc-the-ugly-shoe-is-back
Croc is 10!, 2012, Crocs, Inc, http://company.crocs.com/tag/crocs-history/
Crocs, 2016, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocs
E-shots Web-exclusive: Patent check: What’s in a Croc?,2007, Plastics Today,http://www.plasticstoday.com/e-shots-web-exclusive-patent-check-what%E2%80%99s-croc/8109936223408
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