I don't know about the Croc imitations, I have the real ones and they are really great. What I wanted to mention to you about LL Bean is that although I tell everyone that their quality is first rate, and their clothes I've ordered are wonderful, the shoes were a different story for me. I ordered those faded sunwashed canvas sneakers from them when summer started. They looked so cute. Well, I couldn't get my heel in them! I normally have no problems with shoes fitting, but these shoes ran very, very small. The back of the sneaker actually turned up and inward, so you really may have had heel room, but the back of your ankle had to be curved way in too, and mine is not.