Posted on 08/17/2005 8:56:52 PM PDT by manny613
The way I see it, the world is divided into two camps: Those who wear sandals and those who don't.
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Socks with flipflops make my toes ache...
Try wearing them in the rain some time...there's an art to it...
Hmm I work in a kitchen and the "cool" chef look is to have CLOGS.
I swore I'd never do the clog thing, but I find I'm almost a convert since they are really comfortable when you have to stand (and RUN) all over a hard kitchen floor all day
Yes....BCBG.. ...bought my share of that brand for my wife and two daughters.
then my wife discovered Manolo, Choo and Todds....yikes
I love a stiletto pair on a lady...and nothing else...ala a Helmet Newton black and white...lol
I am an admirer of pretty shoes. Sometimes I even buy them and wear them.
I don't wear flip flops...not even on the beach.
I just got back from Seagrove FL and I would leave my trusty old beat up Cole Haan stitched loafers I've had since the 80s at the dune walkover.
I wear engineer-type 16 inch steel toed motorcycle boots with lug soles most of the time I am not in the shower or in bed. In the summer, they work for riding, in the winter, they keep the snow out, and they are adequate for work.
When I was young and fairly well off for a lad, I bought a pair of John Lobb penny loafers in London....when the dollar was strong gainst the sterling.
Still have them....maybe wore them twice but keep them.
Like my wife's first Manolo Blahniks from years ago....keep them...who knows....grandkids might find them intersting like an old pair of cowboy or paddock boots or Hermes riding boots would be.
Really nice shoes are sort of art...
But....now....at 47 and with mucho dependents....I wear tennies or sandals.....or loafers.....and when hunting LaCrosse grange or burlies....and Filson for my wife.... I think my only lace ups are some old Ecco suedes.
There are three kinds of people in the world --- those who know how to count and those who don't.
Me too. I don't understand all the terms for women's shoes. What's the difference between mules, pumps, and slings? And that's just three I can recall off the top of my head -- there are a dozen more that I don't know what they are. Men simply have shoes, boots, and waders -- and that's about it.
I just think that sandals with socks of any kind look dorky any place else.
I dwell in Florida and the dorkiness of wearing socks with sandals is exceeded only by the ancient geezers who wear baggy Bermuda shorts and sandals with droopy black socks, LOL.
Leni
LOL...that'd be an interesting look.
Beware the insideous influence of sandals. They are like Communists, slow and stealthy. One day you are a comfortable conservative in sandals but before you know it you discover that you are protesting against Bush, smoking dope, playing a guitar, and singing kumbaya with a bunch of hippies.
You have been warned. :-)
"Beware the insideous influence of sandals. They are like Communists, slow and stealthy. One day you are a comfortable conservative in sandals but before you know it you discover that you are protesting against Bush, smoking dope, playing a guitar, and singing kumbaya with a bunch of hippies."
I confess that I play a little guitar and am upset with Pres. Bush on a few issues already. No way the dope will happen. But I may sing Kumbaya with a cute hippie chick if I thought it might get me in her good graces. ;-)
I wear tube socks and basketball shoes.
Helps me perpetuate the delusion that I am the same athlete I was when I was 20.
No sandals for me. But I have a question, Is it proper to wear socks with sandals?
Some of them do look like they have "good graces". Others might as well be guys.
You can have my ol'comfy Birk's when you pry them off my cold dead feet.!!
If you need a prop to be cool, You need a lot more than props.
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