EMU Australia have come a long way since its band of winter surfers responded to their need for warming footwear after rough weather surfing sessions. These founders came up with the original 'ugly sheepskin' boot design and never looked back. With characteristic Aussie inventiveness they started what literally became a world-wide footwear fashion revolution. Authenticity was a founding principle. Only 100% Australian sheepskins were employed, sourced directly from local farms. That early inventiveness has continued to be a distinguishing mark of EMU's roll out of designs of fashion forward contemporary footwear, amply demonstrated in this Flinders sandal.
Times and technologies have moved on since those heady days of the twentieth century's mid-nineties and the EMU Flinders embodies those superb EMU sole unit technologies to the nth degree. In its genuinely masculine silhouette, the sole is crafted from multi-layered compressed EVA with a cleverly disguised, but very necessary, arch support.
Beneath your feet you get the flexible feel that only genuine rubber can provide. With the resilience and grip to keep you from slipping on sloping rocks and slippery greensward, yet with none of the unrelenting hardness of the cheap competition, EMU Flinders soles have the added benefit that they will not leave skid marks on kitchen floor tiles or entrance hall laminate. On the top side, in direct contact with your foot (since you won't be wearing these with socks will you?), it's important not to have clammy stickiness. With premium leather neatly glued and custom stitched to the upper side of the bottom sole, you are assured of just the right amount of comfortable grip and sufficient adherence to stop your foot sliding about.
Now for the essential strapping system. Two wider masculine straps hold your instep firmly in place. Made of soft leather to give support and avoid those tell-tale tidemarks left by competitors' products, Flinders handsome sandal straps achieve this without being in the remotest sense ugly. Again, look at the competition if you aren't clear what we mean!
Here's a friendly companion as you take your steps on the sandy beach, promenade along the sea shore or round the grassy paths circling the golf links. EMU Australia's authentic EMU Flinders flip-flop sandals will fulfil all you ask of them and look good into the bargain. And the thing is, once they are on you can virtually forget about them. Funny thing footwear, isn't it? Struggle to find and decide on the best available (you've just found 'em!) Then simply slip them on and stride off into the wild blue yonder without a care in the world, almost forgetting the classy essentials you have on your feet that'll take you there. That's what real footwear is all about.