There is something to be said for shopping in season — like, right smack-dab in the middle. Because no matter how many summers or winters you’ve lived through, it can be a challenge to imagine at the very outset of the season what you might want to wear. You might also find your eye changing as a season unfolds. And so, for our latest Substack newsletter, we published an unabashedly mid-summer deep dive on five great sandals, including the new Pierced Mule sandal and the ultra-chic Patos from our Spring ’24 runway.