It becomes more difficult by the day to determine the difference between truly useful products at outdoor retailers and those created to feed the large-and-growing “green” style crowd.  So, here’s a report from Outside Magazine’s blog about performance flip-flops.  The idea is, of course, preposterous, but here it is:

In the rank and file of the footwear world, flip-flop sandals stand
among the foremost underachievers, lazy and flat-soled, offering
little support or protection, and barely staying on the foot as you
walk along.
  But outdoors companies like Teva, Keen and Sole hold faith in the
flip-flop format still, and each have open-toe offerings that attempt
to add performance features onto the blank slate of a sandal sole.

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http://outside-blog.away.com/blog/2008/07/the-gear-junk-1.html

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