The online magazine Slate has a hilarious article about “summer fashion gone bad.” That is, normally sensible people who take leave of common sense in the summer and wear fashion mistakes such as tube tops, short shorts (sometimes known as hot pants), undergarments that peak out from under other clothing and appalling footwear. (Disclaimer: I am known to wear flip-flops and Birkenstocks in the summer, although not to the office, and I never wear the latter with socks.) The most striking footwear anecdote involves a pair of flip-flops and a scampering rat.