My feet spread damply inside my cheap sandals and I knew I would get blisters.

The other wore cheap sandals and walked in obvious pain.

The chaotic locker room is strewn with soggy towels, and patrons still pad from floor to floor in cheap sandals and turquoise hospital gowns.

And the cheap sandals had raised blisters on the soles of her feet; she had broken an ugly one with a needle and walking was difficult.

But she didn't have a chance to tell him so just then; children in filthy rags and clean, nearly new, cheap sandals were pressing all around her.

Her uncle is the main breadwinner, cutting pieces of rubber that are then shaped into cheap sandals.

"They'd like to think that I gave up everything," she said recently as she adjusted a bandage on her foot where a cheap sandal had rubbed the skin red.

Nothing much more than a jumpsuit with no pockets, and cheap sandals on his feet.

Which was why he was currently threading his way through the Commons of Shangri-la Station, decked out in his most threadbare woolen tunic (the one with the artistic wine and dung stains), his dirtiest cheap sandals, and his very finest bronze collar (the one that read MALCOLUM SERVUS).

The shida is far more than a cheap, plastic sandal in the Eritrean psyche.