barefoot fashion

[Dizzle]

yeah, being a guy, im not so sure about the pedicures...

I get pedicures all the time, it's not a big deal anymore, guys do it all the time.

We'll see. It'd have to be done in the next state over, so that there'd be NO chance of anyone i know seeing me.

[Guest]

Hi Barefoot Susan,

Can you tell me a little more about your daughters going barefoot, - where do they do it?

Also, are they still in school and if so do they wear shoes to school?

The reason I ask is that my daughter, who is 15, has recently started going barefoot or just in socked feet outdoors a lot, and I am not sure whether it matters?

I don't go barefoot outdoors, although I really admire those who do. However, I always go shoeless indoors, - not just at home but at friend's houses and other places. I work in a local bank and always go in my stockings feet all day in work.

Now the thing is I have always encouraged my daughter to take her shoes off indoors as well. Again not just at home but when she goes to other places as well. For example at school she takes her shoes off. Also, when she comes to the bank where I work to meet me after school, she always takes her shoes off in the bank, while waiting for me and doing her homework.

Recently though she has started to go barefoot outdoors, for examaple when doing her paper round or going into town. Then yesterday, after she had left for school and I was putting my shoes on to walk to work, I saw her school shoes were still at the door. It turned out she had gone to school just in her socked feet and not taken her shoes with her?

She says it it more comfy, - should I be concerned about this or just let her do it?

I would be gteafull for your advice.

Suzy.

Teach your daughter to wear shoes when in public.
Why are you not wearing shoes at work?
What does your Manager say about your lack of shoes?
What do the customers of the Bank feel about a teller who is barefoot all of the time?
When I go to my Bank I expect the teller to be professional and that would include her attire, going barefoot does not lock professional and should not be tolerated in the workplace. I had a receptionist show up to work one day a few years ago without shoes, I sent her home for the day.
Jill

[Guest]

you need to wear shoes in public and at work, only someone with no class would even consider going to work or out to dinner barefoot. nobody wants to come to your office and see your in your barefeet or go to a nice restaurant and sit across from someone with dirty bare feet.
JUST WEAR YOUR @!%& SHOES WHEN YOU ARE NOT IN YOUR HOME.
AND IT IS TIME FOR THIS THEAD TO BE DONE.

[Guest]

you need to wear shoes in public and at work, only someone with no class would even consider going to work or out to dinner barefoot. nobody wants to come to your office and see your in your barefeet or go to a nice restaurant and sit across from someone with dirty bare feet.
JUST WEAR YOUR @!%& SHOES WHEN YOU ARE NOT IN YOUR HOME.
AND IT IS TIME FOR THIS THEAD TO BE DONE.

Seconded! It's complete fantasy bull. If these people were genuine, we would have seen pics by now. Losers! Probably the same person replying to themselves as well!

[Guest]

Hi Jill,

I fully undersatand your comments. However, I don't wear shoes in work as I find them restrictive and prefer having my feet free. I have done this for quite a long time and my Manager and colleeagues are used to it.

I am usually just in stockings feet rather than barefoot, and as I am behind the counter most of the time customers can't tell that I am not wearing shoes!! If I have to see a customer I usually paut my shoes back on.

I hope you don't mind me asking but why did your receptioist turn up for work without shoes. That does sound un-professional - was there a good reason?

I hope this helps expalin my postion a little and you don't consieder it too un-professional!!

Suzy.

[Barefoot Susan]

Hi Barefoot Susan,

Can you tell me a little more about your daughters going barefoot, - where do they do it?

Also, are they still in school and if so do they wear shoes to school?

The reason I ask is that my daughter, who is 15, has recently started going barefoot or just in socked feet outdoors a lot, and I am not sure whether it matters?

I don't go barefoot outdoors, although I really admire those who do. However, I always go shoeless indoors, - not just at home but at friend's houses and other places. I work in a local bank and always go in my stockings feet all day in work.

Now the thing is I have always encouraged my daughter to take her shoes off indoors as well. Again not just at home but when she goes to other places as well. For example at school she takes her shoes off. Also, when she comes to the bank where I work to meet me after school, she always takes her shoes off in the bank, while waiting for me and doing her homework.

Recently though she has started to go barefoot outdoors, for examaple when doing her paper round or going into town. Then yesterday, after she had left for school and I was putting my shoes on to walk to work, I saw her school shoes were still at the door. It turned out she had gone to school just in her socked feet and not taken her shoes with her?

She says it it more comfy, - should I be concerned about this or just let her do it?

I would be gteafull for your advice.

Suzy.

Both my daughters are now in college where they wear shoes by choice.
At home they are almost always barefoot and also for most of theit leisure activities. For example they often go shopping bareffot whether they are with me or not. They go barefoot to visit thier friends houses and on the bus or train. If they feel like wearing shoes then they put them on otherwise its barefeet.
I don't think I can advise you. If you are uncomfortable about what people will think if they see your daughter barefoot then you have to explain that to her, If you are happy that she is barefoot whatever people think then don't worry, the chances of her feet coming to any serious harm are extremely small.

Susan

[Guest]

Hi Everyone,

Its really good to read about people who enjoy not wearing shoes, I'm a 28 year old guy from Southampton, UK and I have been a barefooter for several years.
Reading everyone's posts it makes really interesting reading, I do hope that the majority of people posting are legitimate because it is an encouragement to me who, like most people I would imagine, don't know many other people (only 2 others in fact) who share this way of life. By this I mean people who really do everything barefoot unless the absolutely have to wear shoes.
I remember it being hard to start with because you are constantly worried about what people who know you will think, but after a while I found you get known and remembered for it and people start to think there is something wrong it they see you shod!
Reading over some posts I think its great so many of you are able to work shoe free. I am someone who goes to work barefoot but have to wear flipflops inside - although is more for safety (work in a chemical lab) than 'professionalism' which I have to say I struggle with.
I am amazed that any school allows pupils to be barefoot on site. Health and Safety has gone crazy so I would be surprised that they would take the risk - although 6th form colleges and Uni's are much more relaxed about it. Its great that some parents out there are happy to let their kids be barefoot. Mine would never have let me when I was young (they're not over the moon about it now it should be said). If the school/college doesn't mind them attending in barefeet then its no different than being anywhere else I would have thought.
Fortunately very few places around here (shops etc) refuse me entry so life it pretty easy. I think its generally easier for a girl than I guy though... more socially acceptable for some reason.

Cheers

Dan

[Simon Saint]

Dear Jill,
have you ever heard of freedom of choice ? If someone wants to go barefoot weather it be at work or in the street etc, it is up to them.

If someone serves you in a shop or a bank, just think about are they providing good customer service regardless if they are barefoot or not.

Simon.

[Guest]

Hi Suzy,

I don't know why so many people have a hang-up about this.

Certainly in the UK it is becomming far more common / acceptable for people to go shoeless in work.

I work as a bank clerk and like you often work shoeless. In the winter I wear trousers and ankle boots to work, and always take off my boots in the brnach and just go in my socked feet, even in front of customers, - no one has complained and my attitude is why not!! If I wear plain black socks with black trousers very few people even notice that I am not wearing anything on my feet.

Do what you find comfortable.

Jane.

[Guest]

Dear Jill,
have you ever heard of freedom of choice ? If someone wants to go barefoot weather it be at work or in the street etc, it is up to them.

If someone serves you in a shop or a bank, just think about are they providing good customer service regardless if they are barefoot or not.

Simon.

Simon
you have the freedom of choice, but if you chose to work you need to dress professionally, going barefoot in the workplace is not professional.
Jill

[Guest]

Jill,

Why did your receptionist arrive in work without any shoes?

Cath.

[Guest]

Jill,

Why did your receptionist arrive in work without any shoes?

Cath.

She said she had been out running errands and did not realize she did not have them in her car. I sent her home because I do not find it acceptable to be in the office without shoes.
I have had a few women who would slip out of their shoes while at their desk and as long as they slipped back into them if they left their desk I did not say anything.
Jill

[Dizzle]

jesus, some of these people need to calm down.

[Rachel2008]

Hi Zoe,
Three of us barefoot went to a very nice restaurant where no mention was made of our lack of footwear, then on to a pub and finally we wnet clubbing.
Julia

Firstly, wow.....46 pages of this topic ! Amazing ! I have read only the first five and a half pages of it so far. The above was the last one I have read so far.

I am puzzled : I assume that Julia and her friends were barefoot at the club too. If so, I am amazed. I thought clubs in the U.K. were very strict about attire. I know that a friend of mine couldn't get in a club there because she had sports shoes on. But this was in the nineties. Maybe things have changed in this aspect ?? Just curious. Anyway, even if the club management is okay with it, going clubbing barefoot is not a good idea I think......i.e. people stepping on your feet at the dancefloor.

I myself love going barefoot. For instance, I am barefoot all the time in my apartment. If I go to a seaside town, I am always barefoot along the beach and also at some parts of that town near the sea. I live in Istanbul and going barefoot is usually frowned upon here and I am not brave enough not to care about odd looks so I don't do it here. Well, I have done it here (5 or 6 times) too but I was drunk all those times so I was able to let go of my shyness.....and anyway....those times, I was barefoot for only about half an hour or so (on my way back to my flat late at night )

But anyway, all power to you guys and gals who are not shy to go barefoot all or most of the time !

Cheers,

Rachel

[Barefoot Susan]

you need to wear shoes in public and at work, only someone with no class would even consider going to work or out to dinner barefoot. nobody wants to come to your office and see your in your barefeet or go to a nice restaurant and sit across from someone with dirty bare feet.
JUST WEAR YOUR @!%& SHOES WHEN YOU ARE NOT IN YOUR HOME.
AND IT IS TIME FOR THIS THEAD TO BE DONE.

You are entitled to your opinion but you should not use your right to free speech to make assumptions on behalf of the whole human race!
My bare feet meet many people and very few have ever objected to them.
On entering a restaurant or similar establishment I invariably make sure that the visible part of my feet are clean (I carry wet wipes in my bag).
My soles may be dirty but they are no dirtier than the soles of your shoes!