Tacky. Really tacky.
Posted on 07/23/2005 8:19:28 AM PDT by mathprof
IF OPPRESSIVELY HOT and muggy weather wasn't clue enough, there was a sure sign of summer this week in the news out of Washington.
Call it the Sandal Scandal - a flap that arose after a White House photograph of Northwestern University's national championship women's lacrosse team revealed four of the athletes posed next to President Bush were wearing flip-flops.
Relatives of the students were aghast when they saw the pictures posted on the Internet. They feared the footwear might be interpreted as a sign of disrespect to perhaps the most formal venue in the nation. Etiquette arbiters dutifully cluck-clucked in disapproval.
But such critics missed the point. The student athletes didn't dress down for their White House appearance by wearing flip-flops. Rather, the humble beach sandal has arrived in fashion's mainstream.
The flat little pads with a thong between the toes have burst well out of the confines of boardwalks and boat docks to become what footwear expert Meghan Cleary called "the ubiquitous shoe."
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Controversy over flip-flops stems not so much from orthopedic concerns, though, as from outmoded notions of how and where the bare foot should be revealed.
Not every foot belongs on public display, of course, as a matter of aesthetics. Men, in particular, are not always as careful about nail care as a viewer would hope, and they typically don't use polish to hide the flaws.
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Are flip-flops appropriate for a State Dinner? No, but that's mostly because there might be dancing after dinner, and the dance floor is one place the flip-flop definitely does not belong.
Especially with global warming upon us, it's time for flip-flop prejudice to be stamped out.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
They cant quit whipping a dead horse....really sad this lot is
I find it comical that these girls plod along in the snow in bare legs and sandals in the name of fashion, and someday, when their brains are reunited with their bodies, so will they. In the same way, the girls who had their photo op with the President will look back and wonder, "What was I thinking?" We've all been there in one way or another, and for most (hopefully) this too shall pass.
WARNING :
DO NOT READ THE BALTIMOME SUN !
SYMPTOMS; headache , nausia , aching joints , dry skin , depression , blindness , loose stools , vomiting , dizzy spells , boils , lose of hair , sore gums , flat feet , and worst of all , mega hemroids . Consult your doctor before using the Sun Papers for wrapping fish in or eating steam crabs on . Highly toxic !
"Not every foot belongs on public display, of course, as a matter of aesthetics."
Ohmigosh, this is SO TRUE! I think my feet are ugly, so I never wear open shoes. But I was in the elevator with a woman yesterday and her feet make my feet look suitable for a magazine advert. She had bunions, corns, oy vey! And she was wearing, or rather she had her feet crammed into, these sexy, skimpy high heeled sandles.
I was so very sorry that I had looked down!
Tacky. Really tacky.
Must be a boy girl thing. I have no opinion at all on whether my feet are ugly. I mean, feet are feet. I suppose that at the extremes, some feet are ugly--like your woman on the elevator. But outside the extremes, what would make a foot ugly?
How about this....
LOL. As I said: "I suppose that at the extremes, some feet are ugly. . ."
I have a question...
Was the PRESIDENT offended??
If so, it's an issue, if not let's not give this anymore time...
Personally, I could care less.
"Everyone of those young ladies was wearing a nice summer DRESS."
Yes and they all look very nice. But having seen the picture I must agree that the flip-flops spoil the look. They could have worn nice sandles, with a wee bit of a heel, and looked even better and their feet would have kept just as cool as in the flip flops.
But, having said that I will concede that flip flops are the hot item this year, I wouldn't worry about this becoming a regular thing.
"But outside the extremes, what would make a foot ugly?"
Well, that lady in the elevator was an extreme case. I think most feet, like most knees, just don't look that good. Some people have very lovely feet and hands. Often these are bigger people. So maybe it's that feet often look scrunched up (I guess that would affect women more than men, since men don't have to wear the foot scrunching shoes women do) and big feet just look better. Like people on TV having big heads, as Rush Limbaugh has often pointed out.
SYMPTOMS; headache , nausia , aching joints , dry skin , depression , blindness , loose stools , vomiting , dizzy spells , boils , lose of hair , sore gums , flat feet , and worst of all , mega hemroids .
Consult your doctor before using the Sun Papers for wrapping fish in or eating steam crabs on . Highly toxic !
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... The "Baltimore Sun"! The only papaer that makes "Pravda On The Potomac", The Washington Post; look like The Washington Times, in comparison!
I've yet to figure out how or why The Sun has been in business for so long.
Jack.
That's why I stick to back fin lump and say "no,thanks" to the feathers. ;-)
Cheers!
Full Disclosure: Yes, Baltimore Sun sucks. Second Disclosure: Orioles used to be good, though.
Palmer - McNally - Cuellar - Dobson, 1971.
Four 20-game winners in the same season.
As I said, it must be a Mars/Venus thing. Until today, it had never occurred to me to think about this, feet or knees :)
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