Britney: Setting The Bar Low Enough That We Can All Just Skip Right Over It. In Flip-Flops.

You gotta love Britney for her determination to be - all issues of trainwreckiness completely aside - as totally ordinary as anybody that you might see wandering the aisles of your local Target. You really do. Because she does it with such gusto.

I mean, here she is, getting into a private jet, after an afternoon jaunt to a baby shower with knocked-up little sister Jamie Lynn, with unwashed hair and clad in pink terry-cloth booty shorts. Clutching what looks to be a machine-dispensed coffee and a plastic Wal Mart bag. And don't even get me started on the wedge flip-flops.

(Wedge flip-flops? Can I say? One of the most incomprehensible clothing/footwear inventions of the 20th and 21st centuries. More incomprehensible than the sleeveless sweater, even. I mean, what are they for? Are they meant to make the ordinary flip-flop more dressy? The evening sandal less dressy? And, who can walk in them? They're a death trap in plastic, not unlike Heidi Montag's poly-blend not pants.)

Seriously. I think it's kind of adorable. I mean, I do like a bit of glamor (and apparent sanity) in my celebrities, but in her case I can make an exception. It's like she's making every effort to be anti-glamor. If she weren't so spacey I'd think that she was making a statement, but if she were making a statement it would actually ruin the effect for me a bit. It's the fact that she just so does not seem to give a f*ck that I find endearing. Because, you know, why bother? Everybody is just going to pick on you anyway, so why not be, like, totally comfortable and avail yourself of the low, low prices at WalMart while they take shots at you?

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[Sils]

If I had a private jet I can't guarantee I wouldn't be stripped down to my bra and panties while in flight. I mean, if I'm going down in a fireball, odds are people are seeing my panties anyway... if they still exist.

And, I realize that this goes against the grain of my Ann Taylor craving body, that also worships at the alter of J Crew 5 days a week while I toil away in my office: I am in favor of flying comfortably. I always, always, always fly in flip flops. Even for business. I will stop at the restroom and change before greeting colleages at the gate if I have to, but I believe in flying comfortably and, this is the important part, in a manner that allows me through the security line as quickly as humanly possible.

The person in front of me? With the lace up sneakers, the hoodie layered with another jacket, and anything made of metal on their person? That person pisses me off to no end. (Don't get me started on the moron with the full sized tube of tooth paste/bottle of water/"oh my go-awd, that's a brand new bottle of perfume!")

Granted, on a commercial flight I think those shorts would be a little too short, but if she controls the cabin temperature and is flying with only close friends/handlers/family I don't care what she's wearing.

[Her Bad Mother]

Flip-flops, fine - but WEDGE flip-flops? Going up narrow metal airplane stairs?

(Also? it's not like we usually see Brit in Ann Taylor and this pic is an exception... but yeah, I hear ya. I'd prolly be naked.)

[woolf]

Mmmph. I love my wedge flip flops, wear them all of the time. (I broke them out in mid-April this year.) Part of the attraction is the ease of the flip flop. Part of it is that they're often just dressy enough that I feel like I can get away with them in semi-serious settings. And part of it is that I'm short and need all the height I can get -- hence the wedge. And so far they're a hell of a lot more comfortable than any other heeled sandal-type shoe that I've found. :)

[BaltimoreGal]

I have never found a pair of flip-flops that I can wear for more than 30 seconds. I can get away with SOFT leather sandals that go around the big toe if they also wrap over my foot but my poor sensitive feets cannot handle the pain of the really spiky prong that goes just between the toes- no matter how "padded" or "comfy" anyone says THIS pair will be. OWOWOW. Is is just me?

[Wubbie]

For BaltimoreGal J Crew makes the *best* flip flops comfort - wise, wedge or no. I find all others to be hurty or hard in comparison.

[disnazzio]

I tend to be as casual as I possibly can be when flying - like I stop just short of wearing PJs. An old lady in a dress and a fancy hat once talked some smack to her husband about my t-shirt/capris/flip-flops ensemble (and tangly bun-and-headband hairdo) as I passed by her in first class on my way to coach. She said I looked trashy. I stayed mad for days about that. I mean, I don't even think I'd bother getting dressed up to fly first class, but I'm SURELY not about to don heels and hose to sit in a seat that manages to not even have enough leg room for my 5'2.5" self. Please.

[Her Bad Mother]

woolf - but don't your feet slip out of them? I nearly break my ankles in regular flip-flops, never mind ones with a heel.

Then again, I *am* clumsy, so maybe it's just me.

Also, on this comfort issue, which I otherwise totally agree with - are booty shirts *really* comfortable airplane-wear?

[Her Bad Mother]

booty SHORTS. woops.

[woolf]

There's definitely a bit of a trick to curling your toes when you walk enough to keep them on.

[ko]

flip flops? No, no, no, no. Not nowhere, not no-how. They're right down there with crocs in my book. Sorry to buck the trend here. Okay, not that sorry!