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Context

Garden and hose

A context defined by what happens after: the shoe gets muddy and then it gets hosed. Molded single-piece construction handles that better than anything with a seam, which is a fact about geometry rather than about any adjective on the listing.

What actually decides it

5 things, in order

  1. Whether there is anything to soak

    A molded single-piece shoe has no lining, no textile and no stitched seam. There is nowhere for water to be held. That is a construction fact visible in any photograph and it is worth more here than any of the water words in this catalog.

  2. Whether the footbed comes out

    One of the four garden listings here states a removable cushion footbed. A footbed that lifts out can be dried separately, which is the difference between a shoe that is dry tomorrow and one that is not.

  3. Drainage, which nobody writes about

    Perforations and channels are visible in the product images of most of these products and are described in the text of none of them. Where the holes are, and whether they go all the way through, decides how the water leaves.

  4. Whether the material is named

    One of the four garden clog listings names EVA. The other three name no material at all, though all four use the same claim word about the footbed. A named material is a noun you can look up; an adjective is not.

  5. What the shoe is standing in, which is not the shoe

    Wet grass, gravel, mud and a paved path make different demands and no listing addresses any of them. This is the same limitation as every other context on this site.

Which listing words land here

3 of the 8

  • Water resistantPublished method, voluntary

    Published test methods for water repellency and penetration exist and are used across the textile trade. No listing in this catalog cites one, states a rating, or explains which of the two words it has chosen.

    6 listings in the catalog use it

    Water resistant and waterproof

  • Arch supportMarketing only

    No standards body, trade association or regulator publishes a definition of arch support for footwear, and no listing in this catalog gives it a shape, a height or a test.

    18 listings in the catalog use it

    Arch support

  • Non-slipPublished method, voluntary

    A published test method exists — ASTM F2913, which measures dynamic coefficient of friction on a whole-shoe rig — and nothing obliges any seller to run it. One listing in this catalog names a standards body; twelve use the adjective alone.

    13 listings in the catalog use it

    Non-slip and slip resistant

What this context does not fix (4)

  • Hosing a shoe is not the same as washing it. Where a listing does not state machine washable, this site does not suggest washing anything.
  • A quick-dry claim gives no time and no condition, and none of the listings using it says otherwise.
  • This site gives no advice on odor or on anything that grows in a damp shoe, because that is care of a body rather than care of an object.
  • Wet ground is not addressed by any grip word in this catalog, none of which names a surface.

Sources (3)

5 listings that claim something relevant here

Chosen because their text uses a word this context is about. Not because any of them was tested, ranked or recommended, because none of that has happened.

Crocs Bistro Work Clog

The only listing naming a test standard

Crocs Bistro Work Clog

BasisASTM certification appears in this listing and in none of the other sixty-seven listings in this catalog.

The listing states an enclosed toe, slip resistant construction, an easy wipe-clean surface and ASTM certification.

Claim words in this listing: 1

Closure statedNo closure stated

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