barefoot fashion

[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!

[Dizzle]

I shaved the hair off my feet today. I gotta admit, it does look better.

No longer shall i be a hobbit.

[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.

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!

It is not socially acceptable to go barefoot in public. I have seen people in restaurants and ther public places barefoot and think it is tacky.
I stayed at a hotel a few months ago and the housekeeping girl that came to clean my room was in her bare feet. Do you think that is proper attire to great a guest in your establishment? I thought it was way too casual for an employee to be seen by guest.
I have removed my shoes before while sitting at my desk and I see no problem with that but when I leave my desk I always slip back into my shoes.
Jill

[Dizzle]

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!

It is not socially acceptable to go barefoot in public. I have seen people in restaurants and ther public places barefoot and think it is tacky.
I stayed at a hotel a few months ago and the housekeeping girl that came to clean my room was in her bare feet. Do you think that is proper attire to great a guest in your establishment? I thought it was way too casual for an employee to be seen by guest.
I have removed my shoes before while sitting at my desk and I see no problem with that but when I leave my desk I always slip back into my shoes.
Jill

seriously, what's the big deal? did she hurt you by doing it? It's not like you're ever going to see her again, anyway.

Life is too short to be so concerned about the opinions of people you're never going to meet again.

[Simon Saint]

Jill,
You really should stop being so Daily Mail and let people do what they want to do.

Simon.

[Dizzle]

I went barefoot to a 24 hour convenience store at 4:30 this morning. The only reason i did it, though was because it was at 4:30 in the morning

The floor by the refrigerated section where all the milk and cheese is is nice to walk on.

[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.

It makes me very sad that now even the UK is losing his decency.
Being barefoot at your office?
Good lord!
It's such an odd hippthing. Saying: "I disrespect my culture, I don't care about being professional. I don't care about society and our economie. I am just another egoist mo**er*u**e* who sits here to get his paycheck at the end of the month."

I dislike casual fridays, I dislike smart-casual and I especially dislike employes dropping esential parts of their clothing.

If we made it depend on this people, they come barenaked to their office.
"Ya man, I was not realy in the mood this morning to dress up. Ya don't mind, do ya?"

It is really time we, as civilians, should show a bit more respect to our culture and our role in our society.

Everyman should go to it's work in a well fitting black or characotical suit, with a cleen white dress shirt, a fitting necktie, black business socks and proper cleaned black dress shoes.

And for women the same:
away with those jeans and sluthy belly baring tops.
Put on your kneehigh skirt, blouse, blazer stockings and high heels.

It's time your folks get some decency and some respect for your nations!

[Dizzle]

"And for women the same:
away with those jeans and sluthy belly baring tops.
Put on your kneehigh skirt, blouse, blazer stockings and high heels. "

Woah woah, easy there... It should be ANKLE length skirts... If you wear knee length skirts, then you, my friend are a W-H-O-R-E!!!

[Guest]

Some of the recent posters on this thread are so up-tight, - get a life!!

I work as a secretary for a firm of solicitors, and always go in my stockings feet in the office, even in front of clients.

No one has ever complained.

The reasons for doing it, - it is comfy and practical - try running up and down stairs all day in heels!!

Liz.