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For the beach yes, anywhere else. No. Saw one guy this past summer wearing Capri pants WITH Sandals. it was a tad feminine. Yesterday on the subway the guy next to me had sandals with toenails that looked like eagle talons. At least keep the dogs neat if your going to go out in them.
In and around Chicago, from my obersvation, it is far more popular amongst young white men/males than young black men/males. I don't wear flip flops, but I do have a pair of sandals(almost always wear them with socks in public).
Sandals have been around forever and men will continue to wear them. Trying to argue differently seems futile and juvenile. Anyone who thinks that sandals are gay has a lot of self-work to do. Wearing sandals is nothing like wearing more than one belt or those tight pants.
Must be a regional difference, I grew up on the east coast as a teenager in the '70's, and I NEVER saw guys wearing flip flops. No guy I knew would have been caught dead in them, not even at the pool or the beach.
Sandals and flip-flops area sissy.
really, I was born a Brooklyn boy since the day the first brick was laid, boys wore flip flops in the summer, it was never a big deal. I don't know where you were from??
Guys wear flip flops now a lot more because it is a fad. Evidence is them wearing them when it is cold or damp. It's the thing to wear unless it is snowing. It's particularly ugly when they have pasty legs with circular indentations (edema) around where their socks were an hour earlier before they changed out of their work clothes.
Same with tatoos. Guys with tatoos on their arms will wear tank tops when it is 39F outside - otherwise, nobody would see their tatoos.
Conformity is more important than reason sometimes.
As a kid in the seventies, in Washington DC, sandals weren't rare at all, and one would often see them on adults. Even tough guys wore them. Flip flops are a beach thing as far as I remember, and i haven't seen much digression from that to date. As a kid, they were almost a vacation novelty item. i spent a lot of time in Treasure Island, Florida, so I had a few pairs over the years.
I never had a proper pair of sandals, but I would wear the right pair. I don't think my girlfriend would dig it though.
When it comes to how my feet look... eh, whatever. I walk around with no shoes at all a lot of the time when it is warm. I find the "need" for shoes to be very bizarre.
I wear Sketcher's water shoes about anytime its above freezing. Its great,looks like sandals has toe protection, can be worn in water or splashing thru rain puddles.
They are awesome hiking shoes too as they bend on a rock and grab traction.
http://trafficshoes.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Skechers-Mens-Journey-Water-and-Trail-Shoe.jpg (broken link)
Its not a fad or trend but wearing sandals, flip flops or water shoes is just a way of life.
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