Day: May 19, 2022

In the past five years, the number of children living in foster care has dropped in Sebastian County from about 800 children to less than 500 children. But there are plenty of children who still need support. And they also may need shoes. Sarah Sharum, Area 2 director for Arkansas Children and Family Services, joined Matt Whitson, executive director of Arkansas Family Alliance, Taos Sneakers  as they gathered with others at Old Greenwood Avenue and Rogers Avenue Wednesday at noon. There were 481 shoes spread across the lawn that would be boxed up and delivered to foster children needing shoes. Sharum and Whitson explained the importance of the "Walk A Mile in My Shoes," campaign. There were all kinds of pairs of shoes across the lawn at Sagely & Edwards Realtors that had been donate...

The thing about water shoes is that you don’t realize you need them until you’re head over cut-up heels in some godforsaken watering hole in western Massachusetts. But when you do get around to searching for a pair, you’ll immediately notice that most are of the geriatric-scuba variety that read as deeply uncool unless you can style them with Cecilie Bahnsen. Or unless they’re the Nabaiji Aquafun from crunchy sports brand Decathlon, which look like a crossbreed of The Row’s sold-out-everywhere nylon sock shoe and Loewe’s PVC Flow Runner. (Dominant traits: a “naked” design and slipperlike shape). We’ve been on Aquafun Watch since February, Craft Sportswear Sale when fashion person and illustrator Jenny Walton put them on her Instagram Stories from a holiday in Miami. She’d bought them, i...