It occured to me the other day that I do not own any sandals that are not flip flops. This made me very sad. I am going to be doing a lot of walking on my study abroad and I want some good-for-my-feet, can-wear-with-everything, well-made sandals.
And I don’t like gladiators. Some of you may not know what gladiators are. Try to go shoe shopping: 90% of your options are gladiators. Most of them are some variation on this:

They’re cool and all, just not my style.
Anyway, because this is the dominant trend, I’ve been having a really hard time finding anything else. But after searching high and low, I at least have an idea of what I want. Something along the lines of this:

or this:

Unfortunately the reviews for both of these items emphasize that they are cheaply made and painful to wear. So the search continues.
Good thing I secretly love bucking the trends…
