Brands are clamoring for the mule money: Ms. As “a positive indicator of sales, Crocs and Birkenstock currently see lower levels of discounting compared to the overall footwear market,” said Katharine Carter, fashion and retail analyst at Edited, which tracks sales data from a range of online retailers. Netflix, interest in mules continues to climb. Unlike other pandemic winners like Peloton and Ranzato (left) and Derek Ng (right) wearing their mules of choice. Guerrero succinctly said, “It’s all about comfort, dude.”Ĭourtesy of Derek Ng A.J. He was won over by Yeezy’s spongy Foam Runner and now owns a multitude of slide-in clogs from Merrell and Crocs.
“The pandemic definitely played a part in creating a lot of love” for mules, said Dom Guerrero, 23, an assistant at a financial firm living in Vallejo, Calif.
Dress shoes gathered dust as people drifted toward squishy soled, easy-on shoes for shuffling to and from the supermarket-mules being functionally a slipper with a hard sole. Have existed for decades, but the pandemic lifted this relatively niche category into a genuine mulement. His overall favorite is a pair of polyurethane Birkenstocks with a slight ridge on the back-mules, he cautioned, tend to slip off as easily as they slip on. Thomas himself owns about 30 pairs of mules, some of which were recent freebies from brands trying to entice him to post their shoes. Far down the budgetary slope, Converse and New Balance sell heelless versions of their iconic styles for around $100 or less, as if they were plucked off the assembly line a few steps too soon. Marni sells $580 mules coated in a Muppet-esque shag, while Dior partnered with Birkenstock on a felted wool model that, despite its $1,100 price tag, has sold out online. There are pricey fashion mules and thrifty sporty ones. A pair of Crocs’s new swirly Pollex clogs designed by Salehe Bembury.
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