Most men treat the toe post sandal as a last resort. Something grabbed on the way out to the beach, chosen for the price rather than the look, and forgotten in the boot room by September. We think that’s the wrong approach entirely. A well made toe post sandal in good leather, with proper foot bed shaping and a sole that doesn’t look like it came off a flip flop, is a genuinely useful thing to own. It works with linen trousers on holiday, with shorts somewhere that isn’t trying too hard, and with that off duty register that gets harder to dress well the warmer the weather gets. The difference between one that looks considered and one that looks accidental comes down to the leather quality, the strap width, and whether the construction holds up after a week of actual wear. These are the ones we’d pack without hesitation.