Footwear Friday

Flip-flop Bottle Top Popper 

Reef has come out with a flip-flop style that has a built-in bottle opener called the Mick Fanning (a famous surfer dude from down under, don't you know).  This is brilliant! But the production staff  at QN has a couple of quibbles:

• They don't come in women's styles
• They didn't come out in time for the 2004 election

Tree Hugger Tug-O'-War

Susanne and Christian Birkenstock are splitsville, although that isn't the news.  She's started her own company with a line of "healthy" sandals and shoes that purportedly get rid of cellulite.  She has called it "BeautyStep" but in her promotional material she uses her married name liberally, so to speak, causing an amicable split to become less amicable.  Like, who cares?  The shoes are ugly.  The Wall Street Journal reported all this today in the "fluff news" center article.  We stopped reading after they mentioned Herr Birkie's castle-on-the-Rhein-overlooking-the-ruins-of-the-Remagen-Bridge for the third time.   

Editorial note: QN wants to develop a line of fashionable slides that have a built in bottle opener and an Ipod Shuffle clip complete with Mariachi tunes and a tie -in with Negro Modelo for discounts on beer.  THAT is what we call healthy footwear.