Your guide to the summer staple
Photo: Retailer Flip-flops — the footwear favored by beachgoers and early-aughts celebrities alike — are arguably as much a wardrobe staple as white button-downs, jeans, or a good white T-shirt. That may be because, according to Wikipedia, people have been wearing flip-flops since at least at least 1,500 B.C. But unlike those other wardrobe staples above , flip-flops are often simple and inexpensive, meaning you might not give much thought to picking out a pair.
$18 at Amazon Buy $18 at Amazon Buy Best classic rubber flip-flops Target Women's Sara Flip Flops $4 Photo: Reid, Hilary “For as long as I can remember, I’ve worn the same pair of nondescript black rubber flip-flops, and I find them incredibly chic,” says writer and NYR Daily editor Lucy McKeon. While she doesn’t remember where she bought hers, she points to these $4 Target ones as a close approximation.
$32 at Simply Moda Buy Best maximalist flip-flops TravelNut Special Arla Platform Wedge Flip Flops $26 Suzzan Atala, the jewelry designer behind Tuza, says her favorite pairs of flip-flops have platforms and a lot of glitz. She got the platformed, embellished pair she currently wears at a store in Oaxaca City, but says she sees similar pairs all the time in Chinatown and the Rockaways. “I love them because they remind me of when I was 11 and I first got my pair of thong flip-flops,” Atala says.
$17 at Amazon Buy $17 at Amazon Buy Best day-to-night flip-flops TKEES Lily Suedes $95 For something a little more put together, you might want to try leather flip-flops, which have come a long way since those aforementioned Reefs you wore in high school. “I gravitate toward flip-flops that have the soul of a loafer, which is why these suede ones from TKEES are my ideal,” says Harling Ross, fashion director and brand strategist at Man Repeller.
$77 at Everlane Buy Best flip-flops to wear around the house Muji Indian Cotton Room Sandals Thong $10 Designer Mary Ping told us that she’s been wearing Muji’s standard grey or white rubber flip-flops with clear thongs on beach excursions “since her college days.” But she also loves the brand’s new woven flip-flops, which she calls “equally great” for their “combination of utility and simplicity.
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