Summer sandals for children

i always had these sandals and i loved them. I still think they look so cute. Mind you even though i always had Clarks shoes and had my feet measured everytime i still have problems with my feet now i am nearly 65!!!

One year when I was 12 DM was feeling particularly hard up and got me a bargain pair of Startrite sandals in the Co-op sale. They weren't a very good bargain as one was size 3 and the other size 4. Unfortunately I'd stopped growing at 10 when I was 5' tall and size 2 and a half. I'm sure one big toe peeped through a cut out on the top! My shoe size is the same but I'm a few inches shorter now!

Startrite lace-ups in the winter, those dreaded Clarks brown sandals in summer which I absolutely hated.

Flippy That was my very first thought when I saw the newest posts on the thread.

I remember these as Startrite. Mine were navy blue and the colour used to dye my socks! I probably had sweaty feet even then. In summer we had "Jesus" sandals in tan with buckles at the front and at the ankle. Tbh I would really like a pair of both to wear now. You can't do better than leather shoes I won't wear anything else. Bring back those squeaky crepe soles!!

I always had these sandals - and yes, they were called sandals. Anything more open would be called "open-toe sandals", but we weren't allowed to wear these to school, only these Clark's sandals or a Start-Rite Mary-Jane style in the same colour as indoor shoes, and brown lace-ups for outdoors - also in this tan colour,

I do remember the X-ray machine - you could see your own green bones when you looked through the viewer. But the shoe shop we went to after we moved in 1954 didn't have one, and I never saw one again.

I remember when I had my tonsils out coming too on a mat on the floor in a room full of 7yr olds and seeing a long row of identical pairs of these sandals all with a label tied to them so the nurses knew which belonged to who.

I remember my brown sandals! If the'd been dried by the fire the crepe soles would stick to the floor. I really loved the xray machine.

I bought one of my girls some leather slave sandals which went missing pretty well right away; I found them 20 years later in the garden right at the back under a shrub!

I think a sandal was denoted by the buckle and strap and the open cut outs, obviously meanings and names change over the years I too had lace ups each winter and sandals each springtime
I never knew my cousins until I was a much older adult as they thought we were snobs because I had them
I had a leather satchel too
I don't remember X-ray machines perhaps I m too old or the town not up to date enough but I don't think we were that sophisticated