Hate sandals! One (the last) pair I had took the skin right off the outside of my foot. There is no way I’d wear any footwear without washable fabric between me and it.
I’m neutral when it comes to sandals. I don’t wear them my self but don’t think less of people who do. I always wear socks and shoes, even during the hottest months in Texas, without my feet getting too hot.
I hate flip flops with a passion though. I hate people with ugly feet who wear them. Most of all I hate hearing people wear them. God how I hate that sound. That’s why I never shop at walmart. Seems everyone in there’s wearing flip flops to show off their ugly, stinky feet. There’s a woman in my office who seems to only wears flip flops. She even wears them during what passes for winter here in Dallas. She would pass by my cubicle every time she needed to go out for a smoke. Each time, I wanted to grab a machete and chop off her feet. Good thing I don’t work on that side of the building anymore.
I don’t hate flip flops, but I totally don’t agree flip flops are equivalant to sandals. My sandals are pretty and decorative. They don’t make funny sounds. I try to match them to my outfits when I can, and they are more dressy than flip flops.
Flip flops are beach wear, and I won’t flip flop on this issue.
This, plus not frying the soles of my feet on an asphalt parking lot in midsummer.
And so what if someone thinks sandals look ugly? I’m a middle-aged guy; I don’t have to care.
Nope, love em. I hate wearing shoes, love being barefoot. I am always barefoot indoors, and barefoot outside as much as possible in warm weather. In shoes my feet are sweaty 100% of the time and get uncomfortably hot in warmer weather. In fact I sleep with just my feet stuck off the side of the bed with no covers all year, because my feet get so hot. And having overheated feet is a MADDENING feeling. Makes me panicky.
If I have to wear shoes in warm weather, I wear open shoes with plenty of circulation, it is the only time my feet aren’t soaking wet in footwear.
I don’t wear ‘flip flops’ as I can’t stand anything putting pressure between my toes, or shoes that catch and scuff on the ground. But I usually wear strappy leather sandals with paper-thin soles that are barely shoes. Like this. Love them.
When I was a teenager and didn’t care about being fashionable I routinely used to wear sandals during winter, but I don’t anymore - I have cute boots. One time I had to hike for miles through a blizzard in a foot of snow (school bus got stuck) wearing Birkenstock sandals and 1 pair of cotton socks. My feet didn’t get cold at all.
Seriously. Somewhere in the last five years I decided I was too old to care if people thought my music was no good, and too old to care if they didn’t like my clothes. I dress clean and neat and appropriately; I don’t care about anything else.
I’ve got a half dozen sandals that I wear, depending. There’s a pool pair that can get wet, l leather dressier pair, some ultra comfortable TEVAs, an open, ridged pair, blue floaters for the beach, a pair for hiking… maybe there are more than I realized. However, I probably tried on 10 pairs that I first passed on before finding the 1 pair that was just right.
Sure, some sandals suck but maybe you just gave up looking too early.
Let’s be clear about one thing though. There is no such thing as dress or dressier sandals/flip flops. You wear them because the occasion doesn’t call for a proper pair of shoes. I believe it was two or three years ago, I saw a people wearing flip flips with heels on them. That my friends, was an abomination.
I wear boat shoes, water shoes, Tevas, sandals, etc in warm/cool weather. When it snows, I wear boots.
Except for the location, this statement applies to me as well. I don’t own any open shoes of any type, and never find myself wishing that I did.
Hmm? Really? I don’t agree, at least on the sandals. I wear very pretty sandals, that do dress up wonderfully with a skirt or dress, much more than flip flops.
I think you can easily find a pair of dress sandals, at least for women.
In no way can a pair of flip-flops even be considered formal, or IMO, even casual. I group them in the same category as house slippers.
Not so much sandals but flip flops in the summer for everything except work and working out. But I live in a resort town at the beach where everyone is pretty casual. Besides, who needs sand in their shoes?
Honestly, that was my fear on purchase, but they really don’t. I’d say my feet are “average-sweaty”, whatever that means, and I am a man so there’s that. But I wore them all summer and no problems. They breathe really well.
Now, my work steel-toes - guys, if you want to find out what really bad shoe smell you can get, encase your feet in impermeable metal in a hot factory. So it’s not that I’m immune to stank-foot, but the boat shoes don’t do it. They are designed, after all, to be worn sans socks.
It kinda contradicts all the purposes of wearing sandals in the first place, IMO. It’s not any quicker, your feet are not open to the air where they’ll stay cool, and you can’t see that fancy pedicure.
Why exactly do you want to wear socks? Do your sandals fit improperly and cause you foot problems? Are you particularly sensitive?
BTW, a young woman like yourself can pull it off if the socks are cute (giving you a reason to show them off), or if you where a bunch of bad fashion with it, throw in some fake glasses, and call yourself a hipster.
I only read the OP, and not the rest of the thread. (I’m supposed to be working, and need to get to it.)
I grew up with zōris, so sandals are natural for me. Much of the time they were the cheap ‘rubber’ ones. Right now I have ‘shower shoe’ zōri, straw zōri, modern ones I got from REI, and a pair of geta. (Hm. I seem to be lacking huaraches.) Of course these are all for wearing around the house or at the beach; not for ‘being in public’. I have a pair of Teva sandals, and a pair of similar ones of another brand. I’ll wear those to run errands. Women wear sandals for fashion. I wear them for practicality. They’re cool in the Summer, and easy to don and doff any time.
Because the middle of winter is too cold to not wear socks, even just walking from one building to another.
ETA: Wearing sandals with socks is significantly [del]cooler[/del] more cooling than wearing closed-toed shoes.
I’m not overly concerned about asphalt burns in summer. I burned my feet pretty good as a kid and apparently have an asbestos layer on the bottom of my feet now.
But yeah, the glass gets me. If there were no glass and pricky things, I’d be barefoot all the time.
Also, socks with sandals feel funny.
Flip-flops galore, or jandals, as we commonly refer to them.
I tried getting a pic of the beautiful high heeled jandals from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, but couldn’t find a good one to link to.
Love sandals in the summer, sometimes Tevas like those linked earlier, sometimes just slides. (One strap over the foot)