The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Sole of Fashion

What students wear defines who they are: Athletes sport sweatpants; preppies pop collars; hippies wear handmade hemp jewelry. But at Colby College, one student found a fashion that defies social barriers: Crocs.

"They clash with everything," says Martin A. Connelly, a senior who produced a documentary segment about them for the college podcast, inside Colby....

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