How do you feel about footwear? Do you have a different opinion about where to wear and where not to? Do you remove shoes or keep them on after entering a house? Is it just yours or any house? @chaoticArbiter Edit: side bar, how do yall feel about socks? I only like very specific ones and would rather none at all unless i have to wear shoes
I wear pretty much exclusively boots (for the ankle support) and I've got really sensitive feet, so I don't take them off putside of private homes, usually. If my soles are a little thin, I can feel the floor even with boots on. Going shoeless on a floor I don't know the cleanliness of when bad textures can strike at any moment... shock, horror, etc. Sandy beaches are an exception, as is any place where being barefooted is an expected norm (the pool, a shoe store, some parks) because it's usually unlikely that I'll end up with glass in my foot or something. But the potential for glass weighs heavy in my shoe-wearing decisions, so I usually have a set of flip flops on hand for those situations. (I also wear exclusively boot socks with minimal seams because Fuck Thick Socks, I hate having my feet compressed. And I have to twist the seam so it doesn't rub against the outside knuckle of my pinkie toe.) For taking them off in houses... if I'm sticking around for 15+ minutes and the house owner takes their shoes off at the door, I probably will. If they don't, I won't. Some realtives have houses I'll take them off in, some don't because the devil is bad floor textures. If it's someplace I'm comfortable pacing, I'll probably take them off because I hate the way my boot noises interfere with the internal monologue. As for what other people do with their shoes, I'm usually just shrugging and ignoring unless some stinky feet are happening. Then I'm sad, and still ignoring but sad about it. (Some shoe rules get waived when I'm wearing heels, but they only stay off as long as my feet aren't touching the floor. Once the floor is a threat again, the heels are back on.)
Socks: diabetic socks are the most comfortable socks ever and depending on where you get them, the softest ad well. You cannot argue with me about this one. Shoes... i wear shoes until i no longer can, meaning until they hurting my poor and weak arches or... now that i think about it, ive never worn a hole in my shoe... nonetheless, i would do so until that happens. I had a pair of shoes that i wore for close to ten years from the time i was in middle school until sometime in college when my mom made me throw them out cause they looked shoddy. High heels are no go unless they are boots that can cover how weird my feet are ( one foot half a size bigger than the other and both wide. My feet are size 6, all my shoes are 8-8 1/2) As for wearing shoes, shoes are worn outside and slip- on shoes such as sandals or flipflops are worn inside because 1. Asian household and 2. Our first floor is part wood flooring and part stone tile. Or if youre like me, you dont give a damn and you wear which ever shoes are closest to the stairs because fuck cold floors (I often wear my flipflops with socks for that very reason).
i dont like shoes but i dislike grass/gravel/dirt more and i Hate it when Mystery Texture shows up out of nowhere (tfw shock and horror) so i usually wear shoes. (sandals let grass come from the sides). if it's a private residence that is not mine i follow the host's example wrt shoes (monkey see monkey do?), in my own house i never wear shoes or socks. i always wear socks when im wearing shoes because once i didnt and it resulted in some very painful sores. if the host of a private residence takes off their shoes but not their socks i follow their example but in general i hate the feeling of socks without shoes
my feet are v v sensitive, so much so that Spoiler: tmi/nsfw maybe? even when I sleep buck ass naked as the day i was born I must be wearing socks so that my feet do not touch anything UnknownTM and i almost never take off my shoes unless I'm going to bed. even if I take off my shoes, I immediately put on rubber soled slippers because also stepping in water while wearing socks is the Worst and makes my autism hurt EDIT: as for the type of shoes i wear, I tend to wear like, nike sneakers on the day-to-day because my arches will hate me otherwise as I walk at least three miles a day uphill going to class. if i plan on going out but not walking far, either flip flops (summer), converse (spring/fall), or Uggs (winter, yes i know it's the basic white girl aesthetic I d o n t c a r e they're really comfy). EDITx2COMBO: as @Birdy is also an autism i wonder what their opinion on shoes is. i know they don't wear them around the house
I hate shoes. I remove them wherever and whenever possible. I like socks, but will remove them if I like the texture I am walking on. coarse tar, for instance, especially when it's been under the sun for a bit in the summer, or late in the spring. or if I am on sand, especially hard-packed sand, but only if it's not WET so it won't stick all over my feet. dirt and grass are terrible and horrible and grass is horrendously itchy. I like walking on very fine tar when it's cold, but not at other times. I could go on but I will stop myself because I don't think anyone wants to hear my lengthy talk about textures of the ground?? anyway. I actively remove my shoes whenever I fucking can, to the point where when I saw my therapist who worked alone and set her own hours, I got her permission to take off my shoes the second I got in her office. I do like socks, and toe seams don't bug me, which seems to be the thing that bothers everyone else. what does bother me are the seams or whatever at the top of the hole of the sock, and I wish there were socks that did not have those seams but somehow stayed up well anyway, because thanks to that problem I inevitably can only wear socks for so long before I have to take them off, and then I must experience Bad Textures from the ground at times. because the Bad Textures are everywhere, including in other people's houses. I also hate thick socks. thin socks only, compression on feet is Bad. I have also had to start wearing shoes that are a half size bigger than what I actually measure as, because people measure to the end of your big toe, but my second toe is longer than my big toe and now has an actual problem from being squished inside shoes that were just a little too short for it for years.
I'm curious what the consensus is on bowling alley shoes, considering there a special thing you have to rent to bowl (or i guess buy if you bowl often enough?)
the only shoes i hate with a burning passion. they're always too tight and hard and other people's feet have been touching them????
here is my opinion on bowling alley shoes: NO. I was gonna use a gif, but then I realized that to really capture my hatred I'd have to upload so many gifs. so I changed my mind.
Bowling alley shoes are groce but the place i bowled nearly an entire season in was ok, but i never would have worn the shoes without socks. Bleh, also inconsistent tightness/stretched-out-ness between and sometimes within pairs. I'll note for trivias sake that dojos are also places where shoes do not go. Even if youre not going into the actual practice room, at my moms dojo you go put your shoes in the shoe room and go wait for your mom or kid or whoever. Dont bring dirt/snow/gross outside things in where everyone is barefoot, dont do it. At home, slippers because Cold Feet. In bed, socks at least some nights because again, cold foots. Altho they have to be those fleecy ones (or new zealand bed socks from sockdreams) that are easy to slip off or else it gets too warm and you have to wrestle them off. At other peoples houses, shoes off in the winter because who are you, dont bring snow inside, do naaaaaht. If they have some sort of mat or plastic thing to walk/stand on then those are Shoe Areas and its ok. But dont go on the carpet unless they say its fine, which the may do when you go to take off your shoes. Dad keeps his shoes on if he thinks its at all possible that he'll go out again that day, because mobility issues with putting on/removing shoes. He has wooden clogs for orthopedic reasons (edit: these are his slippers basically). Mom wears slippers and encourages me to so i dont stain white socks on the floor Shoes that arent the same amount of tightness are bad, i remember having like Mulan(???) shoes altho maybe they were ladybugs and i was just thinking about mulan at the time, anyway i was in like grade 2 or something and my shoes were Not The Same and i just pulled the velcro super tight because >:(((( Shoes
oh yeah I used to do An Martial Art and you always had to take your shoes off outside the dojo and put them in the Shoe Room
Inside the house you don't wear shoes unless they're designated inside shoes (i would just say slippers but my Dad wears sandals which were made with the intention of being worn outside.) At someone else's house I ask unless they have kept their shoes on in which case I just follow suit. Here the done thing is to generally wear shoes outdoors although it's fine at beaches and parks and things to take your shoes off. This is more a regional thing though because I know up north it's much more normal to not wear shoes in general, probably because it's warmer. As much as I'd like to wear pretty/trendy shoes I'm quite particular about how my shoes fit. My favourites are boots because they come up around my ankles and feel nice and secure. I hate sneakers, they all feel uncomfortable and I'll only tolerate them when I get the urge to go for a run because I can't do that in heavy leather shoes or my sandals. At the moment I have one pair of oxford's which I wear every single day and a pair of sandals which are a little falling apart but you can't buy that particular style anymore. I do not like socks. I can manage tights but socks are gross (they both cover my feet. why are they different?). However, I can't wear closed toe shoes without socks because that is wrong so I put up with them.
@Marimo there's a type of shoe, Wool Runners or something, that you can comfortably wear sockless! also iirc you can wash them in the washing machine.
I follow the lead of the host when it comes to wearing shoes, which in the country I'm living is generally off while in the house. Even repair people leave their shoes at the door if they won't be in and out a lot. At home I also leave them off - keeps the floors cleaner, and also less time wearing shoes. I'll wear fuzzy socks at home if it's cold, but the moment I can start going barefoot I do. I love the aesthetics of shoes but I don't love wearing them. I have trouble finding any that fit right and don't give me sensory upset or just plain hurt. They also just feel like a huge bother to me anymore, even though doing up laces doesn't take all that long and laces mean I have have shoe wings. When I have to wear shoes, I usually stick with converses, which are the most comfortable for me, but the moment the outside temperature is over 10 C I switch to hiking sandals. If I have to dress up, I stay with converses if the occasion is only kind of formal, but if I have to be really dressy or particularly want to I have a really great pair of shoes that, for all they're fancy and thin-soled, are really comfortable. They're also SILVER and have pointy toes and are basically amazing. I love them. Bad weather is kind of awful because the boots I have look cool and fit okay, but after walking a while they make the soles of my feet hurt. They're the least-bad option I have for bad weather until we get into super cold and inches of snow territory, though, in which case I have a pair of ugly but functional snow boots that are pretty comfy. Socks are a necessary evil so I try to get fun ones when I can find them, but toe seams are my BANE. I can't count the number of crying fits I had as a child because of awful, awful toe seams.
I think my shoes break so easily because a) I'm overweight and b) I might be walking awkwardly, but the former would take a long time to do anything about and I have no idea what I'm doing differently from everyone else with the latter. I love socks, and shoes are necessary for outside in damp weather because wet feet are gross and I don't want to step on slugs because I'm scared of them. Will wear no footwear or only socks indoors if I have the chance. Last summer I walked barefoot around Whitby in the scorching heat and it was AWESOME. Here are links for people who have problems with sock seams: http://shop.sensory-smart.com/ https://www.sockshop.co.uk/by_type/specialist/seamless_toe/
