# IMHO, People without shoes look dumb... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 22, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-people-without-shoes-look-dumb/377486 "2006-10-22T22:26:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-people-without-shoes-look-dumb/377486/21 "2006-10-24T00:56:54Z")
[QUOTE=Tastes of Chocolate] Wow. I can’t believe that the father of the bride chastised one of the guests for going barefoot, for 3 reasons. One, unless I’m endangering someone, who the heck cares? Two, who embarasses a guest like that? Three: a majority of all the weddings I’ve been to end with a large number of the women present dancing barefoot, especially the bride and the wedding party. Tastes of Chocolate - barefoot when ever possible. [/QUOTE] I was actually a member of the wedding party. Not a bridesmaid-- I was the one who handed out programs beforehand, and afterward, little bottles of bubble mix for the guests to use instead of rice. (Whatever you call that job.) Considering he paid about $60,000 for this extravaganza, I gave him some leeway. A second mortgage at that age is stressful on a man. . . . ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-people-without-shoes-look-dumb/377486/22 "2006-10-24T01:08:58Z")
I was at an outdoor wedding, and the mother of the groom showed up barefoot, wearing what looked like a charm bracelet around her ankle and looped around her big toe (they were not sandals, she was definately shoeless) Everyone was dressed up, she looked like a throwback to a sixties flower child. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-people-without-shoes-look-dumb/377486/23 "2006-10-24T01:30:53Z")
[QUOTE=kelly5078] I never go without shoes (aside from on the beach), because I have the tenderest footsies you’ll ever run into. I once tried walking barefoot around the neighborhood for a few weeks, in an effort to toughen them up a little. I didn’t work at all. When my dad was a kid, he loved to go barefoot. He’s barefoot in his first grade picture. My grandmother was apparently mortified. Bare feet don’t bother me, aside from envy. [/QUOTE] I’m the same way. My feet are soft as hell. Which is nice, because hey, I don’t have crusty feet. But it sucks sometimes too - can anyone say rocky beach? ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-people-without-shoes-look-dumb/377486/24 "2006-10-24T01:32:34Z")
I could tell I’d lost my question-fielding edge today when, on the way home from a wretched, afternoon-long trip to the store, my son (aged 2.5) explained to his twin sister “I have to wear shoes because nobody wants to see my stinky feet.” It was the best answer I could come up with at the time. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-people-without-shoes-look-dumb/377486/25 "2006-10-24T01:53:08Z")
[QUOTE=kelly5078] I never go without shoes (aside from on the beach), because I have the tenderest footsies you’ll ever run into. I once tried walking barefoot around the neighborhood for a few weeks, in an effort to toughen them up a little. I didn’t work at all. When my dad was a kid, he loved to go barefoot. He’s barefoot in his first grade picture. My grandmother was apparently mortified. [/QUOTE] My sister has twins. She took them in for a professional photo once, when they’d just reached that “Hey - I can take my shoes and socks off all by myself!” stage of toddlerhood, and was having trouble getting them to stay in footwear for the photo. So she just took the shoes and socks off of both of them, and had them photographed that way. My mother was horrified, and hated the picture, because she thought it made them look trashy. They weren’t even two years old yet! I thought they were adorable. I myself once went to work without shoes (and no, I was not a lifeguard or a karate instructor - I worked in an office), because as I was pulling out of my driveway for work that morning, I witnessed a car accident (well, a car hitting a mailbox), and somehow left my shoes behind in the process of approaching the car to check on the driver (who was stunned, but OK), returning to my house to call the police, and then chasing after the car to catch the license plate as it sped away to avoid the cops. Since I drive barefoot in the summer (I know, I know), I didn’t miss the shoes until I got to work . . . . . . and I didn’t want to be even later, so I just went on in without them, and went back home for them at lunch. I did feel a little skanky. ---
**Author:** ![goldenmean1975](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@goldenmean1975](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goldenmean1975)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-people-without-shoes-look-dumb/377486/26 "2006-10-24T03:43:08Z")
I hate shoes that are all closed in but hate to go bare foot, like Auntie Em, I have tender feet! Dh and I got in a huge fight yesterday beause I was wearing flipflops and one broke as I got out of the car to go in to Macy’s. He was pissed because we had to make a bee line for the shoe department and he berated me all the way there for my “stupid” choice in foot wear…anyway I thougt this thread was funny because he hates to see people bare footed or in flip flops thinks its tacky. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-people-without-shoes-look-dumb/377486/27 "2006-10-24T04:56:32Z")
I showed up for a first date once without shoes and socks. (It was during summer, and we were going for a hike.) I figured that if she didn’t like like me barefoot, then she wasn’t the girl for me. …it turned out that she **wasn’t** the girl for me. But that’s a long story, and it doesn’t have anything to do with being barefoot… ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-people-without-shoes-look-dumb/377486/28 "2006-10-24T16:37:13Z")
Bare feet outdoors or at home don’t bother me. But bare feet in a public indoor space just strike me as inappropriate. I’ve had to tell my student workers more than once that they must wear shoes in the office. Grrr. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-people-without-shoes-look-dumb/377486.md?page=1)