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Poll: Did you/will you ever rock the Crocs?

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Crocs shoes, a fad that once strutted its comfy, airy stuff past every fashionista’s pointed, stilettoed glare and into mainstream America’s wardrobe, may be going the way of the pet rock, The Times Business section suggests today. According to writer Ylan Q. Mui:

‘The company had expanded to meet demand, but customers cut back. Last year Crocs Inc. lost $185.1 million, slashed roughly 2,000 jobs and scrambled to pay down millions in debt. Now it’s stuck with a surplus of shoes, and its auditors have wondered whether it can stay afloat. It has until the end of September to pay off its debt.’

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Mui interviewed Rachel Weingarten, a trend and marketing expert and author of ‘Career and Corporate Cool,’ who says that -- seeing as how they’re supposed to last forever -- we’re likely to find these neon gems in our closets and say, ‘Remember when we had ugly, Flintstone-looking feet?’

But with the resurgence of fashion trends from the 1980s, a decade long lampooned for its crimes against closets, we have to wonder: Could Crocs somehow stage a comeback? (Image staffer Adam Tschorn once compared them with another pop culture favorite that keeps on ticking, the Volkswagen Beetle: ‘so ugly, they’re cute.’)

What say you, dear All the Rage readers? What are the chances that you’ll wear Crocs again -- if you ever deigned to wear them in the first place?

-- Whitney Friedlander

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