Comfort Trend: Strappy Sandals (women)

Comfort designers combine fashion and function on spring sandals. These mostly flat looks have been updated with braided details and interlocking straps as well as the requisite cushy footbeds.

Clockwise from top: Bearpaw's leather sandal with ankle strap, molded crisscross flat by Crocs, Ahnu's strappy suede style, metallic braided sandal by Hush Puppies and Dansko's brown leather look.