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How come more people don't wear velcro shoes? More than 90% of the sneakers I've seen are held together by laces, and more than 90% of the people I know consider themselves lazy.
So I wonder, why don't people wear those shoes with velcro straps? It seems to be a lot easier, with one quick jerk to fasten, and a quick jerk in the opposite direction to take off.
My shoes are laced, yes, but I don't tie them, my feet slip in and out of them.
Thus I present you with a question from deep within my mind.
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I don't wear sneakers, but many of my more casual sandals have velcro straps. I have VERY high arches on very wide feet, and sometimes velcro straps are the only way I can get a comfortable fit in a shoe.
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Dagonee, I love my Tevas too! In the summer, you can't get me to wear any other shoes.
I buy laceups because they're more attractive. Sorry...but the velcro tennies look like you either never learned to tie your shoes (too young) or you no longer have the dexterity or flexibility to tie anymore (too old). I didn't think I was a fashion snob, but I guess I must be. Posts: 5948 | Registered: Jun 2001
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If your child has ADHD, and you hate his or her teacher, buy said child Velcro shoes or one of those close-with-Velcro notebooks. The teacher will be insane within a week, and will have to resign.
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hhmmm...I always said it as Tee-vuz. i'll have to look into this. Could it be Tay-vas? As if it were in spanish?
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If Nub is a code word for that skanky flinty crap that gums it all up, then this is the correct response.
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Where I came from, Velcro became one of those things that was suddenly "out" because it had been "in" a few years before. It was one of the few clothing fads that my parents had the money to follow, and so I became accustomed to wearing laced shoes again, though I never had a pair last long enough for the Velcro to become worthless. Something else always wore out first.
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Velcro shoes are much less attracive, and I am just not lazy enough that I will take the time to tie my shoes for appearance
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TEE-vuz, but I've never heard it said by anyone but Jes, and he's never heard it said by anyone else. I suppose if I had never heard it said before I would say TAY-vas.
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See, my current favorite pair of shoes are sneakers (of the fashionable, rather than athletic type) with elastic laces. Once they're tied, they stay tied and they slip on nicely and stay snug. And they're much prettier than velcro.
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I tend toward elastic slip-on shoes if I must wear something that completely covers my foot and slip-on Birkenstocks if I don't. And if I have the option, I go barefoot.
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So Dag, jeniwren, how do you keep your Tevas from stinking? The footbed gets pretty rank in short order, in my experience. I've tried applying a baking soda paste, but its effect was fairly short lived, and I was never able to get all of the baking soda out of the little grooves in the footbed. I generally don't have a problem with my shoes smelling, but my Tevas...the word "stench" doesn't even begin to describe to odor.
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I actually got reprimanded by a teacher once for buying velcro-fastened shoes for my younger son. He has some fine motor development delay, and so velcro was much easier for him. So we always just did it that way.
Then one day when it became apparent in class that he didn't know how to "tie" (for something they were doing) because he hadn't done it everyday (like people with tie shoes do) she scolded me for allowing him to get "lazy" and not forcing him to learn this skill. (this was back in elementary school)
I still think she was being petty. He can tie things now just fine, thank you, although slowly. Some people just developed at different rates.
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Noemon, you know, my sweet little delicate feet sweat perfume, so it's not really a problem for me.
Actually, mine are only a couple of years old and are made from that anti-microbial material they use. (Have they always used that material or is that new?) Anyway, they really don't smell at all. But then I also don't have a great sense of smell (changing smelly diapers really doesn't bug me), so maybe they do smell and I just can't tell. I sponge out the sand and dead skin that collects in the little divots occassionally, but that's about all I do for cleaning my Tevas. So far no one has mentioned how totally foul I smell, so maybe that's been good enough. Posts: 5948 | Registered: Jun 2001
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