Team USA gets Ralph Lauren, New Zealand gets Crocs
Filed under: Accessories, Shoes

Can you think of anything more unfair? As we've already told you, Team USA will be sporting Ralph Lauren for the opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics, and the New Zealand Olympians will be schlumping around in an official uniform that includes Crocs.
The women will be wearing the sueded "Alice" style for the opening ceremony, and then all the athletes will wear the ever-popular Beach model. The kicker with this is that Olympic chef de mission Dave Currie said the shoes would be "very stylish."
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Sure, there are knock-offs all the time, but I'm not talking about the "Frauda" handbags for $20 you can get in downtown LA. I'm talking about the copy of a design from a higher-end designer to the masses.
I don't care what you say, a clog is a clog. Even the word "clog" screams utterly frumpy librarian to me (no offense to the librarians out there, I just had a really bad one in grade school).
