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Best Comfy Flip Flops Cool-Girls Are Wearing Everywhere
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Naturally, flip flops are now being worn with everything from balloon trousers and vintage denim to silk slip skirts and floaty dresses. There are barely-there leather versions, jelly styles, kitten-heeled flip-flops and beautifully minimal designs that look entirely appropriate for an evening soirèe. Still, I’d argue that the straightforward rubber thong remains the coolest of them all.
The key to making flip-flops feel styled rather than as though you’ve wandered away from the communal showers is all in what you wear them with. Let them provide an irreverent finish to something more elevated: a tailored trouser, an oversized shirt, a column dress or a full-length skirt. Add a good pedicure and a great bag, and suddenly the shoe once reserved for beach holidays becomes the most effortless way to make your summer wardrobe feel current.
It helps that flip flops are, mostly, genuinely comfortable. If you purchase the right pair (what this guide is for): no complicated straps, no breaking-in period and no pretending that a pair of rigid leather sandals isn’t slowly removing the skin from your heel. Simply slip them on and go. Here, I’ve weighed in on the pairs I’ve worn and actually found comfortable for wearing for more steps than are needed to get you down to the pool.