Until recently, the idea of the “best sandals” was sort of a punchline. But thanks to the popularity of brands like Keen and Birkenstock—to say nothing of the surging fisherman wave—we're now poised to enter the silhouette's golden era, with more cool-guy-approved options appearing every day.
Nowadays if you can picture a sandal in your head it probably exists, alongside ones that you’d never thought of in the first place: dead-ringer repros, futuristic riffs, dialed-in classics, Maximus Decimus Meridius rips.
So we took a long, exhaustive look at the genre, aggregated a whole bunch of our favorites, tested each one for good measure, and whittled down the entire category to the 15 absolute best sandals on the market. —Reed Nelson
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