Sandals & Socks not Flipflops??

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So people keep telling me that wearing socks under my sandals is totally not fashionable, but I CAN'T STAND that feeling. I need socks. I can't even wear flip flops with that thing between my big toe and second toe ever. I tried not wearing the socks with my sandals today because I had to go out and wanted to look right. I could not wait to get home and put the socks on. Ahhhhh........

I personally hate wearing socks because they make me sweat and I don't use flip flops or floaters much... But I don't like the look of socks in sandals or floaters... My foot is too pretty to cover it with socks I've always hated the look of socks under sandals

I know the socks look dorky but I hate dirt between my toes!! !

I can't stand sandals without socks. I don't even like flip flops.

i don't own any socks.

Is this a special Aspie-women-socks-n-sandals-issue only?
If not I have something to contribute. I sneak around home in socks and sandals. I get ridiculed but hey I can dish it out. Also once I went on a multi day hiking trip and my boots were too tight so I switched to sandals but they chaffed something fierce so I put socks on and it was c'est magnifique. Socks and sandals for the win. I wonder if the Roman legionnaires wore socks under their sandals sometimes?

I CANNOT WALK in flip-flops. How do people do it?

There are two options:

1. Make my toes grip onto that thing so it doesn't slide out. This results in my toes having to bunch up like they're deformed, and having to shuffle along in a painful, awkward way.

When this option starts to get unbearably painful, I switch to option two:

2. Just walk normally. Result: flip-flops shoot off feet and go flying forwards. This is also painful, and I get so annoyed when they slide off that I end up having to switch back to option two.

Summary: maybe I just have unusual feet, but flip-flops are (from my point of view, at least) a stupid, painful, crippling, impractical invention. I'd far rather wear sandals that incorporate a heel strap, to prevent the sole sliding forwards and the whole thing flying off my foot. Shoes ought to be comfortable, so much so that you ought to be able to walk normally and be able to forget that you're wearing them. If they're the sort of shoes that require concentration to be worn successfully, you can forget it. They're not for me.

Back on topic: in the house, I wear sandals instead of slippers. When it's cold, I wear them with socks, yes.

I love flip flops!

I've never understood the hate for socks with sandals. I think it looks fine, and it's far more comfortable for me. Without socks my feet sweat a lot more and they start to stink. Also, in this country everyone takes off their shoes when going into someone's home. I think it would be way too awkward to go in barefoot, so it makes perfect sense to wear sandals.

How do you walk in them? How?



(See above).

I asked a friend about flip-flops once. She told me that, in fact, you have to grip them with your toes. And she also said that while it's uncomfortable at first, you get used to it (your toe muscles get stronger or something) and you don't even notice anymore.

Hardly seems worth it to me.

I also love flipflops. I like being barefoot and I don't like wearing shoes at all, feels like a prison for my feet. Flipflops are the closest thing to being barefoot thus they are my favourite kind of shoes. If you are not used to wear them, try some that are made of very light weight material, like that soft, sponge-like stuff... very thin and they won't last longer than one season but it's the most comfortable kind of flipflops I think. And you won't have these problems like you have to "hold" it with your toes because the flipflops are so light you don't really feel them plus they don't hurt the toes.

And socks+sandals or flipflops - NEVER! I think it looks just so unbelieveably awful that everytime I see somebody wearing that I can't stop staring at the person's feet. It is like... a very fat person wearing way too tight clothes. Or somebody wearing colors that shouldn't be worn together. It feels like it hurts my eyes and I have to look at it and I keep thinking "How can it be the person doesn't notice how terrible this looks!" When I was younger I felt like I had to tell them and not knowing that this is impolite I used to do so. Now I know better but it is indeed very hard to keep myself from staring. I am a person who likes arts and design and things like that and estethics is very important to me, I could not even bear to keep a book in my shelf which I consider ugly. So maybe that's why I feel this way.

This is the thing I don't understand. WHY does it look bad? I see people with bare feet under sandals all the time and and their feet are GROSS. They're all covered in boils and warts and scars and scabs with icky toenails and smushed-up toes. I HATE looking at that and wish to christ they would put some socks on. That way, instead of the nasty skin, you see just plain white. It's not like you can say it doesn't match the sandal - sandals come in all colors. Mine are brown. Brown shoes + white socks = super. Brown sandals + white socks = fashion crime?

CONFUSED.

It is pure freedom for my feet. I even have for colder days some split toe Nikes, it's like walking barefoot. By the way I never wear them with socks , to restricting.

Barefoot is best. But flip flops are okay. Of course, they do tend to shoot off my feet on occassion.

As soon as I get home, though, the shoes come off and I'm barefoot again. Yay!