<![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury" - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury" - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> I knew designer flip flops had to come. What's next? Tattooed bare feet?

famousauthor

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @VirusWithShoes: In that you have to go to the clinic to get them frozen and cut off?

katieee

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @creamy_goodness: no.

I live in my flops - 300 or so days a year. & all a yall feetphobics can it eat it, nerds.

jackvinyl

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> Flip flops are so unbelievably gross. Can this horrible anti-fashion trend die a speedy and painful death so I don't have to endure the sight of them any longer?
CAN I GET AN AMEN????????????????


creamy_goodness

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @crotchety: I'm pretty sure thongs for the feet came before rump thongs but I'm not sure when the flipping and flopping came about. Maybe it's a regional thing as well? Like "tennis shoes" (are you really about to play tennis?) vs. "sneakers" (what are you sneaking around for?)?

ambitious

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @ambitious: That's about right. But just as she was oblivious and impervious to the used hypodermics and condoms that littered the streets, so she was to our barbs.

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> ...crocodile worked perfectly to add quiet elegance...
More like quiet desperation.

Don Is

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> I know they're not that expensive, but havaianas piss me off. I don't care if they're colorful and from brazil, they're just fucking flip-flops.

oh and of course nylon did their "factory girl" this month on havaianas, which always have a two-page ad in the magazine. why do I keep buying it? more importantly, why am I still typing?

aisatsana

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @ambitious: Good point! Now perhaps you can enlighten me. Weren't "thongs" first footwear? And they named the undergarment after the footwear because they both have that thing that um, goes between the um, whatevers. . .

So anyway they had to come up with a different name for the footwear. Is that how it went?

crotchety

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> How did Jimmy Buffett miss out on this?

I blew out my flip flop,

Stepped on a pop top,

Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home.

nightwatchman_flamekeeper

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @scroll_lock: nuh uh, biiiiitch!

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> I will only pay that much for a pair of flip flops if there's a TV in them. Also, beer.

Lonesome_George

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> I like to call Summer, TEVA season.

miss_msry

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @pureblarney:
Werd.

T. L. Morgendorffer

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @nightwatchman_flamekeeper: Will do. Amazingly, those things go to thirteen.

marvolvox

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @crotchety: "Thongs" is worse.

ambitious

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @lawyergay: "I know you're going for grit and soot here with this line but I don't think you're getting the point about the protagonists dirty, crusty feelings, across in a way that works. Also: get your cajun-style corn chip toes out of my face, please?"

ambitious

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @VirusWithShoes: Except they're not contagious and thank God, the condition is curable.

Everything about flip flops is odious: the way they feel, the way they look, the way they sound and most of all the name.

crotchety

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @VirusWithShoes: So, an art student from Philadelphia gave you flip flops?

Nard

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> I loooove my Timberland flip-flips and have worn them regularly the last 3 summers -- in Manhattan! So freakin comfy and good-looking. If in need a new pair, I'll gladly pay even more. Only thing more comfy? My Timberland mocs.

bytememehard

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> Flip-flops are the herpes of footwear.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> flip-flops should only be worn during a walk from the shower to the changing bench.

Atomische

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @BalknChain: I just whited my price tag out and typed in $INFINITY SQUARED.
/checkmate


scroll_lock

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley: exactly. rainbows are the alpha and the omega of flip-flops.

tortious

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> Let us light a candle to Saint Hubbins, the patron saint of quality footwear.

nightwatchman_flamekeeper

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> Wearing crocs to save monkeys? That's like the time I shot a race horse to save an ostrich.

LatestBy

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @scroll_lock: I know, but I drew a 1 in front of the 8. Who's stupid now? wait...

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley: No way...I invested in a pair of Rainbows two summers ago and wound up with nothing but blisters, fallen arches, and detailed imprints of my dirty city-walking feet on the tan leather.

EleanorRigby

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @BalknChain: I liked the ones you had so I got some too! Yours were only $8,750 though. Cheapo.

scroll_lock

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @EleanorRigby: @pureblarney: Reefs are overrated. I challenge your reefs to a duel with my rainbows.

SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @pureblarney: A $60 pair of Ocean Minded flip flops was the best investment I've ever made in footwear. Of course, I live at the beach - I wouldn't fuck with flip flops in Manhattan.

Deslander

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> A certain talent-free classmate of mine in grad school would wander our urban campus in barefeet and then prop her blackened feet up on our seminar table while the rest of us passively-aggressively critiqued her dreadful short stories. I don't know why I'm mentioning this except that when the subject of bare feet came up I had kind of a flashback.

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @ambitious: Well, it's Kruger's signature colour and font (although it is a fairly Holzeresque statement) - can Hamilton enlighten us?

Mary Mouse

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @scroll_lock: only $9800? you're so lower class

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @pureblarney: Huh? No one's ever spoke a truer word!

crotchety

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @flossy:
Years ago I was dating a brooding european art professor; I got all nicely dressed for a date one night and wore a pair of flip flops. His comment? "You look like you just stepped out of the shower." (He didn't mean I was all fresh and sweet smelling ... tho I was ... of course he meant, What the hell are you wearing on your feet woman!!? ... lesson learned.)


ThereMustBeAPony

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @flossy: Fire Island season begins this weekend for me! And it's going to rain. I really need a "fashion poncho".

rod townsend

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> These have nothing on Exxon Petroleum Jellies

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @bigspike: To be fair to these expensive shoe makers - when it comes to heels, you are also paying for ridiculous, well-crafted comfort in many cases. I'm not a shoe person and I didn't buy the "They're (almost) worth it" shit for a long time but, saint's alive, a well-made shoe will treat the foot with more care and concern than some Aldo joints. So your toes will know.But flip flops? For serious?

Also: Louboutin's have recognizably red soles so everyone will know anyway.

@Mary Mouse: I was going to say Jenny Holzer . . . But not neon enough, no?

ambitious

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> Shhhhh! If word gets out that stupid people are paying ridiculous premiums on everyday items, those of us smart enough to sell it to them will be forced out of business!

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> Nothing says "quiet elegance" like a pair of flip flops. I'm going to quote this from now on when I show up to black tie events in Reefs.

EleanorRigby

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley: We'll also accept 'index toe.'

ShrugsAndKisses

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> This just bolsters one of my favorite axioms: nothing is ever so stupid that it can't get worse.

Colonel Mustard

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> @flossy: You need to dump some of your attitude and take a vacation.

pureblarney

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> If they aren't Reefs, I'm not interested. And Cali girls know their flip-flops.

pureblarney

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> Are the first ones something to do with Barbara Kruger? If so, I might approve...

Mary Mouse

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> Wait...buying crocodile flip flops to save primates?

Crocodiles > Monkeys, I guess.

JesseJb

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> There is exactly one acceptable venue for wearing flip-flops in public: the beach.
That is it.

I sincerely hope that the thousands of assholes I see wearing flip-flops on the streets and subways of New York paid way too much for them--anything to offset my annoyance at having to look at their gross toenails and the layer of grime that's accumulated as a result of walking around the city thisclose to fully barefoot. I don't care if it's hot! This isn't Fire Island! Put on some damn shoes! (And get off my lawn, take a shower, get a job you damn hippies, etc.)

flossy

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> My flip flops have a bottle opener on the sole and cost 18 bucks. I am going to wear them tonight, although I can usually open Coronas with my teeth.

dado

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> Here's a quick primer in luxuryshoes:

Luxury shoes, of any type, do not have rubber soles. You see, rubber soles are for people who need to walk somewhere.
- People that don't have a helicopter to take them to the Hamptons.
- People that have to walk to the corner to get a cab, because the driver isn't waiting outside the building.
- People that worry about a shoe lasting so they can wear them to, like, multiple events.

Can you imagine? Wearing a pair of shoes to both the polo match and the yacht race? Mortifying, right?

rod townsend

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> My $9,800 flip flops are made from the tiny hides of baby ladybugs of a type only found in the jungles of Brazil and which are endangered. Their little skins are ripped off and dipped in platinum. In order to keep the label visible, I keep them on my keyring. I also left the price tag on, which I've highlighted in yellow.

scroll_lock

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> I'll pay the extra pricetag for those rainbows brand flip flops, but only because they make my feet feel like they're being massaged by angels in heaven.

Plus, they're clever enough to put their logo/tag on the thong area dividing my big toe from, uhm, the pointer toe? Is that what we're calling that guy?

SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> Express your individuality in...black flip-flops?...

marvel girl

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> Don't peoples' feet cover the Jimmy Choo and Manolo and Stuart Weitzman names also? I mean, i would LOVE it if the world knew I wear Payless but nobody can tell!

bigspike

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> Leave them alone! Rich lesbians need footwear, too.

contradicto

]]> <![CDATA["Our customers wanted more flip-flop luxury"]]> There is nothing that can comfortably be done in a flip flop that would require an "ultra-sports shoe base." Nothing. NOTHING. Come on, you guys. Let's just . . . not.

ambitious

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