Crocs: protecting feet from emergency room floors, muddy stream beds, asphalt, even fashion runways. These ubiquitous squishy clogs elicit fierce opinions along the love/hate divide, but we understand the attraction to their durability and relatively low price point. The shoes are made from a proprietary material the company has dubbed Croslite, which starts out as EVA, or ethylene-vinyl acetate—a versatile, cushy-but-tough, flexible copolymer. (Despite the nickname “BirkenCrocs,” Birkenstock Arizona EVAs, a staff favorite, are made from a different type of ethylene-vinyl acetate.) Both Croslite and EVA are resistant to moisture, dirt, oils, and other funky substances.
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