--- title: Nike's New Fanny Pack Slides Are the Shoe of the Summer description: Don't want to lug a purse around? Wearing pants with no pockets? 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 31, 2018 5:38 PM UTC  A man wearing fluorescent colored clothing puts a cellular brick phone into his fanny pack A man wearing fluorescent colored clothing puts a cellular brick phone into his fanny packRyanJLane/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 31, 2018 5:38 PM UTC Don’t want to lug a [purse](http://time.com/5175797/dolce-gabbana-drones-handbags-fashion-show-2018/) around? Wearing pants with no pockets? [Nike](http://time.com/5205641/nike-unlaced-sneakers/) has the perfect solution for your sundry-carrying woes: [Fanny pack](http://time.com/3690704/super-bowl-wing-bowl-mick-foley-ejected/) slides. Just in time for summer, Nike is launching a “Fanny Pack” edition of its classic Benassi slides—a.k.a. slides that feature small zippered pouches attached to the straps. The versatile sandals are available in a variety of color combinations—including lime green and turquoise, black and pink, and the standard all black—and are already being praised by fans of the update. > [](https://twitter.com/J23app/status/1001545145131597824) “Nike gonna make me pull some cash out of my fanny pack,” tweeted one excited supporter in response to the news. > [](https://twitter.com/JoelB1088/status/1001602486011080704) Nike has yet to announce a price or release date for the Benassi “Fanny Pack” slides, but it’s likely they will be available soon. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5297215/nike-fanny-pack-slides/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5297215/nike-fanny-pack-slides/"},"headline":"Nike Wants Fanny Pack Pool Slides to Be the Shoe of the Summer","datePublished":"2018-05-31T17:38:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:11.156Z","description":"Let these sandals solve your sundry-carrying woes","url":"https://time.com/5297215/nike-fanny-pack-slides/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Nike","fashion","Clothing","shoes"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt385ac21e1817395e/698931fb4ee2623186311f93/fanny-pack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt385ac21e1817395e/698931fb4ee2623186311f93/fanny-pack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fanny-Pack-Man","caption":"Man wearing fanny pack","creditText":"RyanJLane/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5297215/nike-fanny-pack-slides/","name":"Nike Wants Fanny Pack Pool Slides to Be the Shoe of the Summer"}}]}] ```