The joy of summer begins with kicking off the heavy, weather-proof shoes and slipping into flip-flops. I tried to share the joy with my son and learned the hard way: Kids and flip-flops don’t mix. Kids need straps on their summer shoes or you’ll spend a good deal of your day searching fro where exactly it fell off. Enter Venettini Sandals.
While they have roughly the same silhouette as ever-so-ugly Tevas, these sandals are actually cute. Rather than use for clunky plastic fasteners, Venettini opts for a hook-and-loop closure with decorative stitched stripes (plus a little more flair around the sandal cut-outs).
Available from Zappos.com for $59.
About Heather Kuldell
Heather Kuldell thinks a day without stepping on her son's tiny, metal cars can be called successful. In addition to protecting sensitive insteps, she blogs, bikes, cooks and attempts to garden. By trade, she has worked for alternative newspapers, magazines and co-edited three collections of journalism called
Best AltWeekly Writing and Design.
