Are these sandals nice or horribly unfashionable

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I’m 38 and don’t know what’s cool and what’s not.
Are these cool?

https://www.toa.st/products/vibae-leather-fisherman-buckle-sandals-tan?variant=63328347062621&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=18437612051&dema_id=18437612051&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18431488314&gclid=CjwKCAjw2rrQBhBuEiwAarLWHWRecndS3uU_tULTAnudbwTzgOBHxmtjuE4OJDxrIyHv-PTgGDQ2XRoCOPcQAvD_BwE

or

https://mamaowl.net/collections/adult-shoes/products/angulus-womens-fisherman-sandal-tan

Oh I have a very good idea - and I'm past the point of being swayed by fashion magazines. I have enough confidence in myself to know what I like and what I think is stylish, and I know what transient fashion is according to some magazine that has sales targets to reach. If you're 70 you'll have seen enough fashions come and go, some hideous and some not, but style is timeless and it ain't those shoes.

But if you like them then you go for it - it's only fashion after all.

Ooh no. I wouldn’t be paid to wear them.

Probably look great on some people. I would look like a granny/weirdo in them…..

I would say that, while fisherman's sandals are very 'on trend', these ones specifically are more frumpy than fashionable. So personally I would keep looking...

but style is timeless and it ain't those shoes.

In your opinion. And style isn't timeless.

100% this. Im no ageist. I am over 40 and have long hair and wear Daisy Duke shorts. However, these sandals (and all like them) are so disgusting that only the uber young and cool can pull them off (and even then, only just).

theyre awful

They’re horrible and SO expensive for that too. Tan colour goes with everything, and I love the leather, but it’s a nope from me.
maybe try another tan leather type of sandal, and as others have said- never ever with socks - even ironically

Have you recently joined a church?

Love fisherman's sandals however, I wouldn't pay what they ask. M & S have lovely fishermans sandals (I prefer to the ones in the links) for about £50, white, black, tan & navy leather.

Fashionable if your over 80 or dead

Like the Toast ones, don’t like the others, something about the sole means they kind of miss the trend.

Of course it's my opinion, what else would it be - and style is timeless, unlike fashion. Again, we're going to have to disagree.

Wear the shoes if you like them - don't if you don't 🤷‍♀️

@FeduptryingusernamesAgreed about M&S. I have the tan version. Well made and good quality leather.

I'm old (77) and they make me cringe 😂

@Dedham See the Vogue pictures. They are not old person or entirely sensible. They are fashion 2026. Younger people like them. There are Prada and The Row versions as well as high st priced ones.

They remind me of M&S Footglove sandals circa 2000. Does anyone else remember those?

Still… missing… the point

https://www.vinted.co.uk/items/8076479856-ladies-flat-gold-sandal-size-75?referrer=catalog

Found some. My best friend had them in navy and I thought they were bloody awful. We were 40ish.

They look very flat and I’d worry about all those edges rubbing your feet. They might not be very comfortable.

They are ugly
I think if you were to wear them and look good you would need to be tall slim young and going to maybe a festival

they look like the sort of shoes you would wear if you want to keep your husband or partner as far away from you as possible 😂

Depends on your overall style as to how you carry them off, but they are classics IMO rather than fashion items.

they are heavy and masculine looking,
but would look fine on a tall woman with long feet
I suspect that you have bought them anyway, OP
wear them and be damned ! is what I say

Style is timeless. Yes, indeed. any of these would be perfectly at home in a civilised gathering today.
😂

The fisherman style is good if you have a touch of fungal toenail as you can get some air to it and hide it at the same time. Speaks from experience.

My friend had those in the mid 90s when we were both in our 40s. I remember saying to her that she was the only person I know who could make them look stylish. They were an aberration then. Obviously they’re not now because the shops are full of fisherman’s sandals at every price point and they’re not sitting on the shelves unbought.

Like most things how they look depends entirely on the wearer. They’re going to look different depending on the style of the person wearing them. It’s odd that someone should think they’re only going to look good on someone tall with big feet because I’d have thought the reverse was more likely.