Few things in life are as comfy and familiar as a pair of well worn flip-flops. Much like a fine wine, it takes time to cultivate a flip-flop with an aged look and feel. A look that says "Yeah, I've had these since college, so what?!" Once they're broken in and those flippers are perfectly molded to your feet alone, few things match that level of pure comfort.
My flip-flops are an integral component of my wardrobe (ask my girlfriend) and part of how I brand myself-style outside of work. Its critical to my laid back lifestyle and my just rolled out of bed look that I prefer to wear on weekend afternoons...and weekday evenings...and weekdays, when I get a chance. Yeah, a sandal does that much for me: think about somtething you wear often and how that item or style is part of your outward self-image.
I always have a hard time tossing my flip-flops when their time has come. The rubber is a brownish-grey, the soles are slick and rounded upwards from years of wear, the straps are hanging on by a thread, and yet I convince myself that these bad boys can last me at least through the coming winter (Luckily, living in California allows me to wear flip-flops year-round).
This last weekend I lost my Reef flip-flops of 3 1/2 years. My girlfriend and I were visiting some friends Saturday. After a few too many chavelas wedecided to spend the night. When we prepared to leave the next morning, my flip-flops were nowhere to be found. They had completely vanished. I'm guessing that someone slipped on my flips flops mistaking them for his/hers.
How do I pick up the pieces and move on? I plan to go out and get a replacement pair of simple black Reefs (I'm loyal to that brand), but in the meantime I'm wearing a pair of Mossimo pre-molded flip-flops. Pre-molded? That's heresy! Definitely not the same.
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Dude! What about the Corona flips I gave you?? Those are my steady.
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