Hasta La Ideas

I know they’re not meant to be funny looking, but I keep thinking these are the kinds of shoes you send your kid out in when you want him to get beat up at the playground:

They’re by a Japanese company called Globe, and the advertised merits of having separated-toe shoes is improved circulation, hygiene (I guess isolated toes develop no “funk”), and a better sense of grabbing the ground with your feet for those being physically rehabilitated.

One merit they forgot to add is that it will make your boy tougher or at the very least, accustomed to fighting off a daily onslaught of attackers at the monkey bars. Yeah, if my kid had to wear these I’d draw attention away from his feet by giving him one of those beanies with the propeller on top.

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