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The boy's sandals are the same as those I wore growing up in the 70's and 80's. I still remember goung to the shoestore with my Mom when I was in kindergarten. I insisted on buying sandals! We got a pair of brown leather sandals with thin straps (of course they had a heelstrap). Th! e following day when my Mom took me to school she told my teacher how I made her by me sandals. They both thought it was so cute. I was a little embarassed. I remember that I wore them with red socks. Despite my initial timidity I continued to wear the same kind of sandal throughout my childhood. On the first day of the first grade I was teased for having worn sandals. But I didn't care and continued to wear them. I knew that a lot of the other boys were jealous that I wasn't "foot-shy" and that I was wearing adorable, comfortable sandals. (I just loved showing off my little toes!) I mostly wore them with socks - red, blue, brown and black. In the warmer weather I wore sandals in bare feet.