fashion?

[kodalai]

It's late, I'm tired, and the drugs are affecting my brain. I just can't stop thinking about this.

Why is it considered such a social faux pas to wear socks with sandals? Worse than, say, failing to wear deoderant, or to button up your shirt all the way?

Myself, I wear the two together all the time, if I want to wear something lighter than sneakers; I don't like wearing what I consider essentially bare feet in public places.

(Personally, I think that a lot of people (especially a lot of guys) have uglier feet than socks. Especially in SoCal, I see a lot of people with permanent stain marks on their feet from flip-flop or sandal straps. I just don't understand why this is considered preferable.)

Please, post and enlighten me, and please try and give something other than "it's just wrong!" as that does not particularly aid my understanding.

Comments

socks

[l33tsysadmin.livejournal.com]

are a type of underwear; society tells us it is impolite to show other's your undergarments.

Re: socks

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

I guess -- although I'm not sure that's it, since most shoes show some part of the socks, unless you're wearing boots.

And if socks are underwear, then wouldn't wearing no socks be even more impolite? I mean, that's sort of like saying that going topless with a bra is more impolite than going topless without a bra.

[kracken.livejournal.com]

I always thought that it just looked goofy. ^_^ In Florida, we always seem to make fun of people from up north, because they are the biggest wearers of socks with sandals. Maybe it's just one of those stereotypes, like lobster sunburn and overweight people in speedos.It's been given a stigma because it marks people from 'out of the area'and you don't want to not look like a local.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

So it's in part a regional thing, I guess?

[nekojita.livejournal.com]

See, I always thought wearing socks w/ sandals being a fashion faux pas was a northern thing. I know I always thought it looked ridiculous, and then I lived in Texas for a while, where *everyone* dressed like that. Well, except me (I'm not much of a sandal person, too afraid of being stung on the foot by something....). While I still think it's stupid (especially when the people are wearing socks/sandals and shorts *in the winter* and bitching about how damn cold they are, which I saw all the time down South), I don't consider it really a fashion faux pas anymore. Too much weirder shit is out there and considered in fashion right now.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Well, if someone was wearing sandals at all in the snow and complaining about the cold, I might think they had bigger problems than fashion.

[razorqueen-gw.livejournal.com]

I really think it's a generational thing. My teenage daughter thinks it's perfectly fine--so do her young adult cousins. To me, on the other hand, it evokes pictures of old men in Bermuda shorts.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Hmm, and yet, the biggest critics I've met of the socks-with-sandals are kids my age and younger.

[badmomma64.livejournal.com]

hi! random comment dropping here, hope you don't mind:
being from a southern, sunny place, i was taught/brought up to believe that it was a faux pas because of the conflicting nature of the two.
sandals were meant to be worn in warm weather, to allow the feet the equal freedom of being cool (as opposed to hot, not fashionable), it is a casual look for warm weather.
where as socks were intended to allow an additional layer of insulation or protection from the elements.
therefore socks/sandals... incongruous.
though i must admit, people with less than attractive/clean/well kept feet should not freely wear sandals. that is a personal faux pas in my book.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

I guess that sort of makes sense. :?

Ah well. *continues to wear socks with sandals 'cause she likes to*