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"So I like wearing comfy footwear, I've spotted a pair of plain black ones for £98. Would leave me a bit short for a couple of weeks if I were to purchase them......  "
We used to exclusively buy Clarks shoe for our daughter till we bought a pair that we had to take back twice, obviously, different pairs, due to poor quality and workmanship. The manageress told us that Clarks had made a policy of increasing profits over quality. Never bought a pair since. |
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"So I like wearing comfy footwear, I've spotted a pair of plain black ones for £98. Would leave me a bit short for a couple of weeks if I were to purchase them......
We used to exclusively buy Clarks shoe for our daughter till we bought a pair that we had to take back twice, obviously, different pairs, due to poor quality and workmanship. The manageress told us that Clarks had made a policy of increasing profits over quality. Never bought a pair since. "
So Doc Martin, do you buy Doc Martens? |
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"So I like wearing comfy footwear, I've spotted a pair of plain black ones for £98. Would leave me a bit short for a couple of weeks if I were to purchase them......
We used to exclusively buy Clarks shoe for our daughter till we bought a pair that we had to take back twice, obviously, different pairs, due to poor quality and workmanship. The manageress told us that Clarks had made a policy of increasing profits over quality. Never bought a pair since. "
I'd agree with you there ....
My son's barely last a term at school 
Fortunately we've got an outlet store at Cheshire Oaks so we never pay RRP
Thinking of just going and buying Converse or Adidas plain black superstars etc as they're built to last
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"So I like wearing comfy footwear, I've spotted a pair of plain black ones for £98. Would leave me a bit short for a couple of weeks if I were to purchase them......
We used to exclusively buy Clarks shoe for our daughter till we bought a pair that we had to take back twice, obviously, different pairs, due to poor quality and workmanship. The manageress told us that Clarks had made a policy of increasing profits over quality. Never bought a pair since.
So Doc Martin, do you buy Doc Martens?"
You may not be the first to say that, third, but absolutely the first to use the right spellings, kudos,   |
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By *ce Winger OP Man
over a year ago
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"So I like wearing comfy footwear, I've spotted a pair of plain black ones for £98. Would leave me a bit short for a couple of weeks if I were to purchase them......
We used to exclusively buy Clarks shoe for our daughter till we bought a pair that we had to take back twice, obviously, different pairs, due to poor quality and workmanship. The manageress told us that Clarks had made a policy of increasing profits over quality. Never bought a pair since. "
I've never had a problem with any of their products and have been using them for many a year. Initially it was for the wide fitting, but I feel it has been money well spent as they serve the purpose they were designed to do and are still damned comfy (I have some brown ones as well) |
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I always bought my kids Clarke shoes when they where younger because they always lasted longer
they have gone way down hill now and i wouldn't waste my money on them |
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By *ce Winger OP Man
over a year ago
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"I always bought my kids Clarke shoes when they where younger because they always lasted longer
they have gone way down hill now and i wouldn't waste my money on them"
Way down hill? Please explain missus, as I'm not sure you are qualified to experience the pleasure of walking in a man's shoe xx |
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"I always bought my kids Clarke shoes when they where younger because they always lasted longer
they have gone way down hill now and i wouldn't waste my money on them
Way down hill? Please explain missus, as I'm not sure you are qualified to experience the pleasure of walking in a man's shoe xx "
okay it pure geordie term they dropped to bits and need hoying out x |
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By *ce Winger OP Man
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"I always bought my kids Clarke shoes when they where younger because they always lasted longer
they have gone way down hill now and i wouldn't waste my money on them
Way down hill? Please explain missus, as I'm not sure you are qualified to experience the pleasure of walking in a man's shoe xx
okay it pure geordie term they dropped to bits and need hoying out x"
Lesson learned perhaps. Maybe you should have bought yer kids some cheap shoes until their feet stopped growing and then they would have been a good investment and might have lasted them a fair few years perhaps  |
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Good quality shoes work out cheaper than buying 6 pairs of cheap shoes over the same time frame, look after your feet, and they will look after you.
My old man never had a lot of money when I was a kid, but he always made sure that I had good quality footwear, and I thank him for it |
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"I always bought my kids Clarke shoes when they where younger because they always lasted longer
they have gone way down hill now and i wouldn't waste my money on them
Way down hill? Please explain missus, as I'm not sure you are qualified to experience the pleasure of walking in a man's shoe xx
okay it pure geordie term they dropped to bits and need hoying out x
Lesson learned perhaps. Maybe you should have bought yer kids some cheap shoes until their feet stopped growing and then they would have been a good investment and might have lasted them a fair few years perhaps "
i think that you need to good to specsavers or re read my comment mr Clarks in the 80s where 1 of the best shoes going and lasted well
jump to the future and they just don't go the distance anymore |
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By *ce Winger OP Man
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"i think that you need to good to specsavers or re read my comment mr Clarks in the 80s where 1 of the best shoes going and lasted well
jump to the future and they just don't go the distance anymore"
Who do you think you are trying to kid there missus, the fact that I don't have to replace them and just fancied a new pair should testify to that I feel  |
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Never had a problem with Clarks Shoes except they are on the pricy side but I do find they last the term kid wise
My long black boots which I think I've had for at least 5 years, wear them almost daily in the winter months & they still look great. |
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By *ce Winger OP Man
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"Never had a problem with Clarks Shoes except they are on the pricy side but I do find they last the term kid wise
My long black boots which I think I've had for at least 5 years, wear them almost daily in the winter months & they still look great."
Absolutely, I still have a pair (not long black boots) that I bought about 18 yrs ago, they have served their purpose and now I'm looking to upgrade and look all trendy and that, if that's at all possible at my age |
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We stopped using clarks shoe shops for the children years ago as they measured my eldest's feet wrong twice, we tried a different clarks and when they did it again we weren't going to take any more chances.
We now use John Lewis so still in occasion have clarks but they are fitted correctly - they also frequently last a whole school year even with them walking in excess of 10 miles a week.
Good quality and fitted shoes are worth every penny. |
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"Good quality shoes work out cheaper than buying 6 pairs of cheap shoes over the same time frame, look after your feet, and they will look after you.
My old man never had a lot of money when I was a kid, but he always made sure that I had good quality footwear, and I thank him for it"
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness." |
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If you like them go and buy them. I had a couple of pairs of Clarkes shoes they lasted year's,I just got bored of them in the end,rather than the fact they wore out. Alway's used to get the kid's school shoe's from the outlet shop. There's nothing like a shop full of kid's and parents getting their's at the end of the summer hol's!  |
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"i think that you need to good to specsavers or re read my comment mr Clarks in the 80s where 1 of the best shoes going and lasted well
jump to the future and they just don't go the distance anymore
Who do you think you are trying to kid there missus, the fact that I don't have to replace them and just fancied a new pair should testify to that I feel "
well a lot of people seem to agree with me
next time iwill keep my mouth shut |
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By *ce Winger OP Man
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"i think that you need to good to specsavers or re read my comment mr Clarks in the 80s where 1 of the best shoes going and lasted well
jump to the future and they just don't go the distance anymore
Who do you think you are trying to kid there missus, the fact that I don't have to replace them and just fancied a new pair should testify to that I feel
well a lot of people seem to agree with me
next time iwill keep my mouth shut"
Some who have kids and don't know how to treat a pair of decent shoes, then possibly. As an adult I think that they are the most comfortable shoes for the price that I am willing to pay |
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"So I like wearing comfy footwear, I've spotted a pair of plain black ones for £98. Would leave me a bit short for a couple of weeks if I were to purchase them...... "
Buy ones with a stacked heel then, they'll make you a bit taller |
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Most of my boots are from Clarkes. Always worth the price. Last ages. Comfortable. Warm. Dry. I do try to buy in the sales if possible though. I earn minimum wage (if that) but feel its money well spent.
Always bought my children Clarkes shoes too. |
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"i think that you need to good to specsavers or re read my comment mr Clarks in the 80s where 1 of the best shoes going and lasted well
jump to the future and they just don't go the distance anymore
Who do you think you are trying to kid there missus, the fact that I don't have to replace them and just fancied a new pair should testify to that I feel
well a lot of people seem to agree with me
next time iwill keep my mouth shut
Some who have kids and don't know how to treat a pair of decent shoes, then possibly. As an adult I think that they are the most comfortable shoes for the price that I am willing to pay "
Get off your high horse 
Red and I have both said we don't think they're value for money or last. Just our opinions
And my kids do look after their shoes, always taught them to clean and polish their shoes.
But the soles don't last and the stitching is inferior
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"i think that you need to good to specsavers or re read my comment mr Clarks in the 80s where 1 of the best shoes going and lasted well
jump to the future and they just don't go the distance anymore
Who do you think you are trying to kid there missus, the fact that I don't have to replace them and just fancied a new pair should testify to that I feel
well a lot of people seem to agree with me
next time iwill keep my mouth shut
Some who have kids and don't know how to treat a pair of decent shoes, then possibly. As an adult I think that they are the most comfortable shoes for the price that I am willing to pay
Get off your high horse
Red and I have both said we don't think they're value for money or last. Just our opinions
And my kids do look after their shoes, always taught them to clean and polish their shoes.
But the soles don't last and the stitching is inferior
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Is that just on childrens shoes or adults too ? My children are adults now but eldest grandchild has Clarkes shoes and they have been great as are my boots. |
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By *ce Winger OP Man
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"i think that you need to good to specsavers or re read my comment mr Clarks in the 80s where 1 of the best shoes going and lasted well
jump to the future and they just don't go the distance anymore
Who do you think you are trying to kid there missus, the fact that I don't have to replace them and just fancied a new pair should testify to that I feel
well a lot of people seem to agree with me
next time iwill keep my mouth shut
Some who have kids and don't know how to treat a pair of decent shoes, then possibly. As an adult I think that they are the most comfortable shoes for the price that I am willing to pay
Get off your high horse
Red and I have both said we don't think they're value for money or last. Just our opinions
And my kids do look after their shoes, always taught them to clean and polish their shoes.
But the soles don't last and the stitching is inferior
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No high horse for me I'm afraid, for one I wasn't responding to your post and I care rather less about how you treat your shoes if I'm totally honest |
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"i think that you need to good to specsavers or re read my comment mr Clarks in the 80s where 1 of the best shoes going and lasted well
jump to the future and they just don't go the distance anymore
Who do you think you are trying to kid there missus, the fact that I don't have to replace them and just fancied a new pair should testify to that I feel
well a lot of people seem to agree with me
next time iwill keep my mouth shut
Some who have kids and don't know how to treat a pair of decent shoes, then possibly. As an adult I think that they are the most comfortable shoes for the price that I am willing to pay
Get off your high horse
Red and I have both said we don't think they're value for money or last. Just our opinions
And my kids do look after their shoes, always taught them to clean and polish their shoes.
But the soles don't last and the stitching is inferior
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By *ce Winger OP Man
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"i think that you need to good to specsavers or re read my comment mr Clarks in the 80s where 1 of the best shoes going and lasted well
jump to the future and they just don't go the distance anymore
Who do you think you are trying to kid there missus, the fact that I don't have to replace them and just fancied a new pair should testify to that I feel
well a lot of people seem to agree with me
next time iwill keep my mouth shut
Some who have kids and don't know how to treat a pair of decent shoes, then possibly. As an adult I think that they are the most comfortable shoes for the price that I am willing to pay
Get off your high horse
Red and I have both said we don't think they're value for money or last. Just our opinions
And my kids do look after their shoes, always taught them to clean and polish their shoes.
But the soles don't last and the stitching is inferior
well said "
The pair that I'm gonna buy will last me til the day I die, it's not as if I'm going to wear them 24/7. All I know is that they are comfortable and I will never have to buy another pair again |
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