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By *ce Winger OP   Man
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

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......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By *atcoupleCouple
over a year ago

Suffolk - East Anglia


"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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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've seen a grey pair of knee highs nearly 140 quid

Will wait for the sales

I like the shoes but think they are overpriced

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By *ce Winger OP   Man
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anyone remember the girl's shoes with stickers and keys!?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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 *cotsguyyMan
over a year ago

Belfast and Fife

I've still got loads of old Clarke badges from when I was a kid.

Loved the foot measuring machine.

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By *ce Winger OP   Man
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By *ce Winger OP   Man
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Cheers Lib, just for you...

David Guetta ft. Usher - Without You PARODY "Without Shoes"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ5x2npXkvA

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Good quote 'whitedaddy'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spend more on a quality pair of shoes than lots of cheaper ones

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By *ivemeyoursoulWoman
over a year ago

Easter just around the corner!

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold


"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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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

"

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
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"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

"

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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

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By *ce Winger OP   Man
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"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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