Rubber flip-flops: can we continue to wear them in the city? According to Ashley Olsen (and others) yes

Tanned feet, impeccable pedicure and rubber flip-flops (or flip flop (whatever you want to call it). We spent our summer like this. Now, returning to the city, we do not resign ourselves to the idea of ​​forcing our feet – now too accustomed to freedom – into closed shoes, however beautiful.

Yet it seems to us that rubber flip flops – an option that has not only proved to be comfortable during seaside holidays but also unexpectedly chic – are not exactly city shoes, as the Birkenstock and others flat sandals made in more luxurious materials, such as leather, or trendier ones, such as rope.

Nothing could be more wrong! Because flip-flops are having their moment in the city, and this is confirmed, among others, by Ashley Olsen.

Spotted a few days ago on the streets of New York, the über-chic twin of fashion she wore an almost winter outfit, while on her feet she showed off a pair of beach flip-flops black paired with equally dark nail polish. The images were shared by the Instagram profile entirely dedicated to the looks of the two founding sisters of The Row, Olsenoracle.

Is she on her way home from a pedicure? We wonder. The moment of the shot (at night) and the caption – “Ashley Olsen at BondST in New York City for dinner with friends” – dispel any uncertainty.

But it’s not just Ashley (although that would be enough) who provides us with the justification we need to continue wearing – for a little longer – our beloved flip-flops once we return to the city. Also consecrating beach flip-flops as shoes worthy of completing any city outfit are many influencers and editors from Copenhagen who wear them every day on the streets of the city, and even in the front row at fashion shows.

Ginevra Mavilla wears a pair of Havaianas outside the Baum & Pferdgarten show at Copenhagen Fashion Week. August 7, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Photo by Christian Vierig/Getty Images)

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The Danish capital, where the fashion week recently took place, seems to be, despite the temperatures certainly lower than ours, the flip-flop capital. And it is precisely during fashion week, which attracts the ever-increasing interest of industry insiders and fashion enthusiasts from all over the world, that there are numerous sightings of flip-flops on the feet of very elegantly dressed editors. So much so that Laura Schulte, content creator widely followed for her style advice and author of the newsletter This Girl I Follownot only devotes them to passe-partout for every outfit but defines them The Louboutins of Copenhagenthanking Brazilians in a post for inventing them.

So here it is that the rubber flip flops – with the Brazilian Havaianas at the forefront, created and patented in 1962 – are transformed into versatile and even chic accessory. Not to be relegated to the beach wardrobe, but to be reinvented in the cityto prolong as much as possible that feeling of freedom and lightheartedness that only holidays can give us.