La Dolce Vita & Flip-Flops

I just purchased La Dolce Vita: The Golden Age of Italian Style and Celebrity by Stephen Bayley - a wonderful coffee table book with paparazzi photos of stars, models and regular Italians in the late 50ties - early 60ties. I especially fell in love with this picture of Anita Ekberg wearing a fitted dress with cinched waist.... and flip-flops!! I actually used to wear flip-flops all the time during summer but has now abandoned them. (Truth be told, my French friends persuaded me by saying in horror while looking terribly shocked: "Non Marianne, you do not wear those... what, non!!, especially not in the city..")

Anita Ekberg might make me reconsider ;-) They are useful if I were to jump into a fountain like she famously did - remember? :-)