I've never understood the whole flip-flop craze. They seem trashy to me, as a guy with a foot fetish... like a woman walking around with nothing on for a top but a cheap, gaudy sports bra with holes in it, or something, and the rest of her upper body needs a wash. The sound of flipping and flopping is like nails on a chalkboard, and anyone who's worn flip-flops for the better part of a day will have absolutely filthy feet. I've seen girls whose skin (elsewhere), faces, and hair looked as if they spent the first four hours of every day in a movie makeup trailer, or at a spa, and their feet were caked with dirt.
Sandals, clogs, and open-toed shoes are much more attractive, although easily overdone; it's so much nicer to leave something to the imagination, tease, play hard-to-get, etc.
Now we did wear jelly shoes, which were a different, more tolerable kind of cheap-shoe-hurt...
