Kendall Jenner’s Countryside Summer Look Revolves Around Her Birkenstock Bostons

Each member of the Kardashian family has their own “thing.” Kylie’s got makeup, Kim’s got shapewear, Kourtney’s got Goop—sorry, Poosh, and Khloé’s got denim. Though Kendall Jenner’s obligatory side hustle is an Instagram-friendly tequila brand, she’s a horse girl at heart and feels spiritually aligned to wet and wild ranches of Wyoming.

She doesn’t want to be considered a fashion week hors d’oeuvre, but a “peanuts and beer” kind of girl, as she captioned an Instagram carousel posted on July 27. And to double down on all those rootin’, tootin’ credentials, Jenner uploaded an image of herself dressed in a bandana and overalls, with a pair of ever-so-slightly soiled Birkenstock Bostons. Part slipper, part clog, the sensible slip-on has proliferated street style round-ups and boujee honeypots all summer.

With her hair swept behind a handkerchief, Kendall Jenner looked like a cartoon cowgirl, or perhaps a barnyard apprentice—both of whom have been cast as protagonists on the autumn-winter 2023 catwalks. There were chicks, piglets, and rats at Christopher Kane; frogs at JW Anderson; ducks at Burberry and S.S. Daley; and bunnies at Chopova Lowena. TikTok fashion theorists will say this is a response to worldwide political instability and that we’re somehow all backsliding into childhood—but it’s also just cute and silly and a bit of respite from the sheen of high fashion.