What’s The Buzz about Havaianas?
Flip-flops! They’re are without a doubt the most worn footwear in the Philippines. They are so comfortable, light and now a days fashionable. My wife adores them specially the ones made by a certain Brazilian company named Havaianas!
I went to the “Flip-flop Store” with my wife a few weeks ago and I haven’t seen so many thong slippers in one room. And what’s more shocking is that the store is so full! Men and women it seems can’t get enough of these flops. I saw a dear old lady purchased 6 of these and still can’t decide if she bought enough. I took a look at a few of them and I must admit the style and colors are nice, fashionable to some extent. But when I look at the price tag I thought to myself “Insane!” The lowest that I saw was about 700 Pesos and that’s for children. The most expensive was about 1,250 pesos. But I wasn’t sure if that was the most expensive. I was so dizzy with the prices that I to stop and took a seat. “Wow!” I thought again, and they say the Philippines is in the verge of poverty. Clearly the people stampeding into the store has lots of cash to throw away. In fact the Northwestern University National Champion Lacrosse team wore Flip-flops when the met the President George Bush last year.
I just have to get to the bottom of it. I know it’s fashionable, but so are other flip-flop brands. Hell I even prefer “Islanders“, but I know it’s “Ewww” to other people. But still the mystery of these “slippers” left me with the intense desire to investigate. Unfortunately I can’t get enough information to post it here. I tried their website but I only got the order form. Either they don’t have info available on the web or they just want profits. All I want to know is, what kind of rubber are they made of and why oh why are they so expensive? I checked the prices on the U.S. website and a pair that I saw cost $22.00. Insane I told you.
But if it’s the price of fashion who am I to complain. At least these flip-flops puts a smile on my darling wife’s beautiful face. 
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Callcenterguy is Dennis in real life. Born in Manila, Philippines and raised in Caloocan City also in the Philippines. Married to a lovely woman named Princess from Malabon City, Philippines where they are currently residing with their son Ezekiel Joaquin. Dennis likes to read books, specially novels written by John Grisham, Dan Brown, J.K. Rowling and Michael Crichton. He’s also interested in American and Philippine history. An active member of Wikipedia.org where he currently has 4 articles to his name not to mention his numerous edits which corrects typos and grammatical errors. He is also a struggling commercial and print model. A lover of movies he tries to watch a movie at least once a week. Dennis has been employed in a call center for the past 6 years.
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Thanks for understanding my “ADDICTION” tatheart!!! mwah mwah…You forgot to mention that our son is also certified HAVAINATICO (la magawa, basta gusto lang ni mommy1
BOO!!
Callcenterguy says: Mwah! Boo!
Alpargatas is a very insular company and to be honest, they don’t care in the least how you feel about them. They know that they have a product that everybody wants and they charge a premium price very much like Apple’s iPod.
Still, there are ways to get decent prices. For example igapost.com gives pretty decent prices. They also have a nice line of footwear called “Braziliano Praia” that is identical to Havaianas in feel. I own two different pairs.
I also own a pair of Hav Brasil model and the very nice Wave model. All are worth a look.
Braziliano Praia are nothing like havaianas. Go put on one pair and walk around for the day, you will regret buying these flipflops. Just another cheap knock off.
I own 5 Braziliano Praias, they are very comfortable. The quality is really good.