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It’s been a good while since I last slipped into a pair of Keds (the athletic Pro-Keds line to be exact), but the time away has not changed my endearment for the shoe. Rather, as I grew out of Pro-Keds, I matured into the more sophisticated, all-white Keds Champion. From time to time, for want to be individual, I find myself getting nostalgic about my pubescent days of marked up, correction fluid covered Pro-Keds. However, Keds have put an end to all my psychological frolicking with the launch of Keds Studio, an online custom shoe program.

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Bernard Wilhelm Spring 2009

When the gladiator sandal sashayed down Chanel’s resort 2007 collection, a new mania was heralded. But with all this hype, fanfare and brouhaha over women and their newly beloved gladiator sandal, where do men factor in? The flurry of sprightly coloured and drab sandals Miu Miu sent out for their SS07 men’s collection paled in comparison to Chanel’s Amazon-like footwear . And as the gladiator sandal trail blazed its way into the closets of women, men were in a chasm of sorts, stuck with the fashionably faux-pas plastic flip-flop and the odd Miu Miu sandal.

Fast forward to today and men can now clamour for the so-called gladiator mandal, or man-sandals, at very affordable prices too. Topman and HE by Mango carry some urbane gladiator mandals that effectively blot out the femininity that surround this style of footwear. Here are our top 3 picks.

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