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Updated July 30, 2024: This guide to the best Crocs shoes was updated with new product releases, Crocs FAQs, 2024 Crocs shoe trends, and Crocs shoe outfit ideas.

Crocs clogs are some of the most iconic shoes in all of footwear. The most comfortable Crocs styles have expanded to fit all kinds of functions and occasions, including sandals, boots, slides, and everything in between, while providing plush cushioning, slip-on convenience, and affordable price points that come in handy year-round, from travel to back-to-school shopping.

Some of Crocs’ imaginative designs are so buzzy, so bold, and so willing to go where no shoe has gone before that they sell out almost immediately. This is the case with the styles featured in Simone Rocha’s Crocs collaboration in 2024, which debuted at London Fashion Week with jewel Jibbitz adornments, or the scented Crocs X Bath & Body Works sandal line that fronted a trendy gingham pattern. Other drops, like the fan-favorite Lightning McQueen Crocs, Hello Kitty collection, or Spider-Man Crocs, added a dose of heart-warming nostalgia to function-forward footwear.

Still, further evidence from superstar-sized collaborations with brands like Mattel (Barbie, anyone?) and celebs such as Paris Hilton, Bad Bunny, Luke Combs, Jacob Collier, and SZA show that Crocs has infiltrated the cool crowd. The once-humble boating shoe dipped its perforated toe into the luxury fashion space with cutting-edge designer team-ups from Balenciaga to Kurt Geiger and Christian Cowan. From there, Crocs made their way onto the red carpet. For instance, supermodel Brooke Shields and Justin Bieber have both posed for cameras in signature yellow Classic Clogs. And, Bieber, who collaborated with Crocs in 2020 and 2021, famously went viral in 2023 for wearing his Jibbitz-adorned yellow Clogs as he rode a CitiBike around New York City.

Name-dropping aside, another reason for Crocs’ upward trajectory is the general shift to more casual fashion, as evidenced by jeans in the office and trends leaning into oversized silhouettes versus tailored fits. As fashion leaned into loungewear in the early years of the pandemic, comfy Crocs followed suit as a wardrobe essential. Crocs went on to win Footwear News Awards for 2020’s Brand of the Year, while the Crocs Classic Clog was crowned FN’s 2021 Shoe of the Year — not to mention the Salehe Bembury x Crocs collaboration, which just dropped two new Saru Clog colorways — also earned FN’s 2023 Collection of the Year Award.

If you’re fed up with blisters and toe-crunching pointed toes, it’s hard to resist the cushioned footbeds and wide rounded toes inherent to Crocs styles. These features also make them a choice pick among those with wide feet or other common foot concerns like bunions and plantar fasciitis. Whether in workplace-appropriate attire, as seen in the Crocs At Work line, or as footwear that wears well in every season, you’d be hard-pressed to find a function Crocs doesn’t make a shoe for. Chief among the reasons Crocs has become the generation-defining footwear brand is its prowess in appealing to every kind of shoe lover, which starts in its impressive catalog of designs and follows through with its inclusive style sizing for all genders. Plus, Crocs continues to lead shoe trends with comfort-focused iterations of fashionable silhouettes, from Mary Jane shoes to fisherman sandals and even platform pumps.