# Best foot forward (poll of sorts) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2003, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560 "2003-12-12T08:52:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Beech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beech)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/1 "2003-12-12T08:52:07Z")
So, when you are getting dressed in the morning, onto which foot do you first place your sock, stocking, tights (panty-hose) etc.? I once heard of a survey which apparently discovered that it was determined by sex! Guys doing the \* foot first, Girls the other. So which is it? Answer below, but please don’t cheat! Men=right foot first - Women left ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/2 "2003-12-12T09:11:04Z")
What does it mean if we are not in the “norm?” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/3 "2003-12-12T09:19:06Z")
I fit the norm specified. I always thought it was because I was right handed, but now I know it is because I am in possession of a trouser snake!! whoda thunk it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/4 "2003-12-12T11:12:24Z")
I guess I’m a guy at heart. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/5 "2003-12-12T11:28:01Z")
I’m also a guy at heart. I do everything \* foot first. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/6 "2003-12-12T11:29:14Z")
wrong for me, too. Doesn’t work well for Doper women, does it? ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/7 "2003-12-12T12:00:14Z")
It certainly doesn’t. I’m the wrong way round too! ---
**Author:** ![Beech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Beech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beech)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/8 "2003-12-12T12:02:16Z")
:smack: My world has come to an end:( ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/9 "2003-12-12T12:04:35Z")
I’m male and I go the opposite way of what the spoiler says I’m supposed to. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/10 "2003-12-12T12:16:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beech \* > \*\*:smack: > > My world has come to an end:( \*\* Only in the sense of sock-wearage, **Beech**! ---
**Author:** ![Beech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Beech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beech)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/11 "2003-12-12T12:23:55Z")
yeh, that **and** you sleep on the wrong side of the bed!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/12 "2003-12-12T12:31:44Z")
Stop that this minute, people are starting to talk! ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/13 "2003-12-12T14:46:49Z")
Left sock, right sock, left shoe, right shoe, right lace, left lace. Male. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/14 "2003-12-12T15:28:37Z")
I’ve been doing it “wrong” all these years too! Now **Hawthorne** has opened another area… sock, shoe &sock, shoe or sock, sock & shoe, shoe? I’m sock shoe sock shoe. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/15 "2003-12-12T16:06:55Z")
Female – I do the “wrong” foot first, because that’s my dominant foot. (After 15 years of tap, yes, I do know which is my dominant foot.) Sock shoe sock shoe. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/16 "2003-12-12T16:12:36Z")
Sock sock, shoe shoe, lace lace. ---
**Author:** ![Beech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Beech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beech)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/17 "2003-12-12T16:15:53Z")
sock sock, shoe shoe, hopefully no laces! (right/ left - somebody’s got to get it right!) ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/18 "2003-12-12T16:16:17Z")
I’m a random sock wearer. I have no discernable pattern when it comes to which foot I will put the sock on first. I do go sock, sock, shoe, shoe, though. ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/19 "2003-12-12T16:50:30Z")
When putting my pants (read: keks) on I always enter both feet simultaneously. Should I venture into more complex ways of pants-on-putting I would surely fall on my face and quite possibly cry. Socks, however, are an entirely different matter. I put those on in the order I find them. Should either one of said sock smell too putrid I promptly remove it and replace it with another sock, not necessarily of the same style, fabric or even color. Unfortunately I cannot remember ever putting shoes, it’s not that I never wear the things, it’s just one of those things that just… happens. ---
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560/20 "2003-12-12T19:46:32Z")
I find the sock/shoe discussion interesting. Some people actually will put one sock and one shoe on before moving to the other side? What if you get interrupted? Do you limp around the house like that, looking silly with one bare foot and one foot with shoe and sock? Obviously, I am sock sock/ shoe shoe. I should note that if the shoes do lace, that I break my pattern - then I go sock sock / shoe tie / shoe tie. Again - for possible need to move while in the process. Don’t want to trip over an untied shoe! (It’s called being practical with a three year old as a single mom.) I don’t think I always put the sock on the same foot first. I think I vary. I guess I always step into panties left foot first… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foot-forward-poll-of-sorts/218560.md?page=2)