Hello! 

Thought I’d share my latest bits and pieces for my holiday, starting with flip flops; and this, needless to say, has got me thinking.

Yikes, I know…flip flops (or thongs as you lovely Americans like to say! ❤️) are tricky. 

Personally I have a few rules, the most important of which is that they are for the beach ONLY. 

On the sand, we have all made an unspoken agreement to bare parts of our body otherwise reserved for the beautician (…or partners from time to time…) , so it’s fair game. But seriously, people walking down Bradford high street in flat rubber flip flops, or worse, wearing them to the office? Nope. 

It’s not even the toes that offend – sandals can be considered in all contexts. It’s something about the bearing of the sole and, for that matter, the soul too. At best it says ‘I don’t want to be here’ or ‘I’ve not given my Summer footwear enough thought this season’, at worst it betrays ‘I live miles from the sea but I’m hanging on to my adolescent ‘surfer babe’ self’. 

But then, there really is no other item for the beach. To add to this, Mr Chit Chat declared his hatred of my previous (free-from-a-magazine) pair. 

Like I said: tricky. 

Also, I don’t want to pay out top dollar for what is never going to be more than a few strips of material – even if it is leather. So if, like me, you wore Havianas 15 years ago, before they were sold in TopShop, this is a real quandary. 

Anyway, I’ve settled on this pair for the holidays and I think they’re broadly inoffensive?

  
These are from Tory Burch at The Outnet for, I think, £22 instead of £50 ish, which I think is acceptable. Keep checking as there’s been a few different arrivals of them. 

I don’t usually do florals, but in this case my sole/soul will be disguising the pattern, amongst other things. 😉