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There's no better season to be Watch A Wife's Secret (2014)a kid than summer when school's out, camp's in session, and the world is quite literally your playground.

While we spend a lot of time reminiscing about the TV shows, video games, and even the snacks we loved as kids, let's take some time to talk about fashion.

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From sneakers that transformed into rollerblades to flip-flops that gave us 4-inch boosts, these are the shoes we ran around in all summer long.

1. Heelys

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Kids don't needto be zipping around on wheels all day long, and yet Heelys made that a reality. These iconic shoes made a serious mark on the childhoods of anyone who grew up in the early 2000s, and if you're like me, they also left their mark in the form of a few scars.

2. Light-up sneakers

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On the days we climbed over rocks and ran through dirt, we did it all in our light-up sneakers. No matter the shoe design, a light-up sneaker was always the talk of the playground. And yes, they totally sell these for adults.

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3. $1 Old Navy flip-flops

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The Old Navy flip-flop sale has long been a summer staple, and these suckers are still a pool-side necessity to this day. They're not the highest quality shoes, but why should that matter when they cost literally just a buck? They'll get you from the pool to wherever you need to go and that's all that matters to a kid in the summer.

4. Platform flip-flops

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On the other end of the flip-flop spectrum are platform sandals. They had the power to elevate you from Normal Kid to Cool Kid. I'm sorry, but it's true. I don't make the rules.

5. Birkenstock clogs

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Any style of Birkenstock sandals are a timeless summer shoe for all ages, but the clogs are in a league of their own. They protected our toes from stomps on the playground, but gave our heels room to breathe. What more could we ask for?

6. Mesh slippers

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You might know these colloquially as "Chinese slippers," but whatever you called them, you already know that these were ~all that~ and more in the early 2000s. If you had multiple colors, even better. I treated these like Pokémon, in that I tried to collect them all. Balenciaga can make all the slippers they want, but there's nothing like a pair of classic mesh slippers to wear out in the world.

7. Jellies

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Another marker of a playground cool kid were jelly sandals — which is another way of saying that everyonewas cool, because pretty much every kid had a pair. The fact that Rihanna designed a version of these plastic shoes for adults is a definite sign of their cultural impact.

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