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I gotta know this.

I've always heard that it's a big fashion faux pas to wear socks with sandals. I don't get why. I've never seen any problem with it and have been known to do it, on the very rare occasion that I actually do wear sandals.

So what's the big deal? Could someone please explain this to me?

it looks tacky as all hell. Other then that, no real reason. It looks tacky

In my opinion it looks really tacky and dorky. Sharkbait does it more times than I care to mention. I think of old people when I see it. Sandals were created in order to be able to wear shoes without the need for socks.

*shrug*

Old men in wifebeaters and bermuda shorts pulled up to their armpits wear socks and sandles.
:hangem:

I do it now and then, and yes, plenty of people yell at me about it. I don't mind it though and don't really see the problem with it. Which is prolly why I wear socks with sandals now and then.

Sometimes I just want to wear sandals but my feet are cold. Solution? Socks!

Fashion makes very little sense, it all seems very arbitrary. I don't wear sandals, but if I did, I almost certainly would wear socks with them; it seems like it would hurt less than having whatever they are made out of actually rubbing on my skin.

Destructionator XV wrote:Fashion makes very little sense, it all seems very arbitrary. I don't wear sandals, but if I did, I almost certainly would wear socks with them; it seems like it would hurt less than having whatever they are made out of actually rubbing on my skin.

Unless you have terrible sandals or terrible feet there is no pain problem.

I wear socks + sandals when I have socks on and don't want to put on shoes (takes longer than flip flops--I don't technically own a pair of "sandals"), when my feet are cold, or when I'm feeling goofy (because I know other people don't like it).

But pain? Nah.

Fashion being arbitrary. Vee, that comes as a shock.

The Silence and I wrote:But pain? Nah.

Weird; it just seems to me that there would be constant rubbing as you walk around. Maybe the ones I've seen are all sucky varieties.

Batman wrote:Fashion being arbitrary. Vee, that comes as a shock.

There probably is some kind of coherent pattern behind it that can be discovered with enough work, but it is just non-obvious to me, and even if I got the logic on an intellectual level, I'd probably still disagree with its premises but never be able to end a debate on it.

That said, the fact that is seems arbitrary is indeed pretty bloody obvious and likely didn't need to be said...

It actually hearkens back to the 'glorious revolution' of 1688 when Parliament asserted greater control over the English monarchy and overthrew James II. King James was quite fond of wearing open shoes with thick wool stockings, as were all of the house of Stuart. Indeed, when he was deposed, loyalists wore similar outfits as a means of showing solidarity. As a reaction and a means of identifying sympathizers of the old regime, it was decreed that such shoe-and-stocking combinations would be outlawed on pain of death. This curious quirk of English common law did not enter the U.S. constitution per se, but it was outlawed by the 13 colonies upon ratification, and it has been a condition for statehood ever since.

There is also some evidence that Hitler was fond of wearing socks with sandals.

Finally, it was agreed at the Bretton Woods conference, where the economic fate of the western world was decided after WW2, that socks with sandals look totally gross.

Kinda defeats the purpose. You usually wear sandals when it's warm outside and don't want to wear full shoes as they would be too hot. Wearing socks with the sandals completely offsets the benefit from them, making them pointless. If you want to wear socks, wear shoes.

I had to wear them for a week while I broke in my orthodic sandals and I almost got into a fist fight in the grocery store parking lot because some weird psuedo yuppie took exception to socks with sandals.

I'm still shaking my head over (it happened a week ago) the fact that someone cares enough to try and beat the crap out of someone over it.

Eh, they don't make sandals my size, so this is all irrelevant to me.

Therefore, being a perfect neutral, I say.... no biggie, it doesn't matter.

While I happen to think it looks patently idiotic, if you're happy with it, so what? There's TONS of fashions trends I think look idiotic, and have so over the years.
Oh, and The Cleric: SOME of us get sweaty feet regardless, even when wearing sandals. Wearing socks to cope with that is perfectly acceptable, even if it looks silly.

Batman wrote:While I happen to think it looks patently idiotic, if you're happy with it, so what? There's TONS of fashions trends I think look idiotic, and have so over the years.
Oh, and The Cleric: SOME of us get sweaty feet regardless, even when wearing sandals. Wearing socks to cope with that is perfectly acceptable, even if it looks silly.

So what would the advantage of the sandals be? Unless it's a "step out to the mailbox" throwing them on, there doesn't seem to be any reason to wear them over shoes if you're going to wear socks.

With or without socks sandals FEEL different than shoes. Whether or not you prefer that feeling is personal, but that feeling is the answer to your question.