Birkenstocks

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Anonymous wrote:How many years do your birkenstocks last usually?

I’ve had one pair for at least 15 years. If you take care of the cork and footbed, getting them resoled or repaired otherwise can help them last for what seems like forever.

I got my first pair last summer and have already worn the sole down. I'm very hard on shoes and walk a ton - including in these; I really love them. I would absolutely buy a new pair - in fact, I already did. And now those soles are getting worn down.

I wonder if they just don’t make the soles as well as they used to.

Or maybe you scuff your feet when you walk in the Birks? DH does, so his soles wear out more quickly than mine.

Yeah I don't know what I do exactly but all my shoes get worn down faster than other people's do - Birkenstock might make worse soles now than they used to, but it's more likely it's just that my shoes don't last as long as other people's. At least the shoes I wear for lots of walking. I even manage to wear out Danskos in couple of years and those are supposed to last decades.

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Birks are quickly turning into the Spring/Summer Ugg

Sweetie, are you 16? Birks have been popular for at least 60 years. They've never gone out of style.

No Gradma

LOL. DD and her friends, who are all UES/UWS/Tribeca NYers, wear their Birks a ton, especially pre/post sports practice or to the beach.

IYKYK.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Birks are quickly turning into the Spring/Summer Ugg

Sweetie, are you 16? Birks have been popular for at least 60 years. They've never gone out of style.

No Gradma

LOL. DD and her friends, who are all UES/UWS/Tribeca NYers, wear their Birks a ton, especially pre/post sports practice or to the beach.

IYKYK.

Post sports I get, but wouldn’t you want to wear waterproof shoes at the beach?

[Anonymous]

Many thanks for all the folks weighing in, even the individual who clearly has never set foot in LA, Manhattan, or the Hamptons in the summer.

I think I might try an Arizona regular footbed - wear right when I get out of bed and my feet are fresh for the day - and see if I can make it happen.

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Anonymous wrote:
Birks are quickly turning into the Spring/Summer Ugg

Sweetie, are you 16? Birks have been popular for at least 60 years. They've never gone out of style.

No Gradma

LOL. DD and her friends, who are all UES/UWS/Tribeca NYers, wear their Birks a ton, especially pre/post sports practice or to the beach.

IYKYK.

Post sports I get, but wouldn’t you want to wear waterproof shoes at the beach?

Many of these folks are not even getting in the water. Or if they do, then their feet are dry by the time they schlep back to the car. Lots just leave their beach shoes in a big pile at the beach entrance and grab them on the way out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Birks are quickly turning into the Spring/Summer Ugg

Sweetie, are you 16? Birks have been popular for at least 60 years. They've never gone out of style.

No Gradma

LOL. DD and her friends, who are all UES/UWS/Tribeca NYers, wear their Birks a ton, especially pre/post sports practice or to the beach.

IYKYK.

Post sports I get, but wouldn’t you want to wear waterproof shoes at the beach?

Many of these folks are not even getting in the water. Or if they do, then their feet are dry by the time they schlep back to the car. Lots just leave their beach shoes in a big pile at the beach entrance and grab them on the way out.

I wear my leather Birks to the beach. I just wear them to walk across the sand, take them off, and then am barefoot the whole time until I leave, when I put my shoes back on in the way back to the car.

I also wear them to the pool sometimes, same thing.

It's not like I'm wearing them to a water park.

[Anonymous]

My mother wore Birks - still do
Sisters and I hated them .. Called them Jesus shoes 😩

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many years do your birkenstocks last usually?

I’ve had one pair for at least 15 years. If you take care of the cork and footbed, getting them resoled or repaired otherwise can help them last for what seems like forever.

How much does getting them resoled and repaired cost? My most used pair lasted about 2 years of near-constant wear spring through fall. I just replaced them, as I've found a lot of shoe repair to be so expensive and a new pair of Birks not wildly so.

[Anonymous]

My ortho recommended the Milano when I was trying to get over broken toes.

I've tried both softened and regular and I prefer regular. I have a lot of foot and ankle and back issues. Not sure why I dont prefer softbed.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Birks are quickly turning into the Spring/Summer Ugg

Sweetie, are you 16? Birks have been popular for at least 60 years. They've never gone out of style.

No Gradma

LOL. DD and her friends, who are all UES/UWS/Tribeca NYers, wear their Birks a ton, especially pre/post sports practice or to the beach.

IYKYK.

Post sports I get, but wouldn’t you want to wear waterproof shoes at the beach?

Nobody is talking about the beach. We don't spend all summer at the beach, you freak.

[Anonymous]

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Birks are quickly turning into the Spring/Summer Ugg

Sweetie, are you 16? Birks have been popular for at least 60 years. They've never gone out of style.

Yeah, because they've never been in style...

Pay attention to what people are wearing this summer, why don't you? The Mayaris have been everywhere for at least 10 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I could not get past the break in period on Birkenstocks - I had a pair for a month and they hurt just as much as the day I got them. They were so painful. How long does it normally take people to break them in??

Can anyone weigh in on the break in process? I returned the ones I bought last summer because I could not get comfortable. The toe things gave me blisters even if I only wore for an hour or two every day at home.

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Anonymous wrote:I could not get past the break in period on Birkenstocks - I had a pair for a month and they hurt just as much as the day I got them. They were so painful. How long does it normally take people to break them in??

Can anyone weigh in on the break in process? I returned the ones I bought last summer because I could not get comfortable. The toe things gave me blisters even if I only wore for an hour or two every day at home.

I put moleskin between my toes for the first few days of wearing mine. Now I love them and wear them for hours, walking for miles.

[Anonymous]

I wear my Birks an hour or so each day to break them in, and it takes a few weeks.

I will say that I have had problems with straps rubbing/irritating only with the synthetic (Birkoflor) Birks. The real leather ones are fine after the break-in period.

The Birkoflors are eventually wearable for me, but it takes a long time and I get blisters or rub marks on the tops of my feet in the process. My black Birkoflor Mayaris I got last summer had straps that somehow itched, and they left red marks for a long time.

So my advice is to go all leather, not Birkoflor, if you want the fastest breaking-in period.

[Anonymous]

Thank you all for inspiring me two new pairs of birks!