GRANDMA FOUND THEM.
A market in Romania.IT’S GRANDMA’S FAULT.
She brought home a pair of weird market slippers.
The rest of us made it a problem.


NO BRAND.NO HYPE.NO IDEA.
Just a very good pair of slippers.
Passed around.
ONE PAIR.
TOO MANY FEET.

WE LAUGHED.

THEN EVERYONE WANTED THEM.

SIZE 39.
Apparently everyone is size 39 now.
KEEP THE PAIR MOVING.
IT WASN’T
THE LOOKS.
IT WAS
THE FEELING.
THIN.
Hardly anything underneath.

OPEN.
Air above. Solid underneath.

HELD.
Open at the back. Held up front.

Turns out simple is annoyingly hard to improve.
THEN THIS
GOT OUT
OF HAND.
It was supposed to be one pair of slippers.






Now it has six colors and a website.
SO, YEAH.
Grandma was onto something.