Yet, somehow, Hari Mari has created a leather flip flop that is as comfortable in the water as a barnacle on a boat – the Hari Mari Piers. 

On my drive home I had visions of slipping them on and looking like a proper soccer star, strutting around town in my shower shoes, certain I’d look awesome.

Vanilla ice cream, Toyota Camry, ball point pens and grape jelly share the same affliction. They are each –  just fine. Few people get excited

The yoga mat material sole is fine with no amazing arch support, but much more comfortable and ergonomic than a cursory profile view would have one surmise.

That’s when it clicked. I’ve never been to Fiji, but if these flip flops are any indication of life on that tropical island paradise, it is obvious that one just goes barefoot there. 

Their thin neon yellow straps reach far back from the toe post like a Major League Pitcher at the peak of his power position as he dishes up a 100-mph fastball.

They’re not the flip flops you’d bring home to meet your parents but are exactly what you want from a bleached blonde, silicone enhanced, summer fling.

What follows is a review of the Aldo Haoen flip flop. For reasons that may, or may not, become apparent in the lines that follow I feel