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Oh, good grief! SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS for those things?
Here I thought the price of my Red Wing boots was bad. Luckily, I don't think my wife would be interested in having a pair of the Vionics.
I get mine on sale. And they're worth the expense for the arch support.
I remember back in the 90's and in centuries prior that people in the United States wore SHOES or at least something that covers the entire foot such as boots.
When 2000, and the years after, arrived I noticed that people started to wear flip flops not just to the beaches or to other swimming locations but anywhere considered informal. Daily, I have to endure simultaneously seeing the disgusting feet of some people in addition to hearing the sickening smacking sound that is made when the soles of the flip flops hit the ground and when people's foot soles smack their flip flop soles.
Do Americans actually wear flip flops informally abroad when visiting other countries? I'd hate to think what is going through the minds of the people in host countries, especially in developed countries, when they see an American(s) walking down a street while creating those annoying flip flop smacking sounds that I mentioned in the paragraph above. Yeck.
Is there someone else in this forum that agrees with me?
NOPE~~~Why should it? What other's wear on their feet does not affect me one gotta! If it's such an aggravation, just maybe you should ask yourself WHY that's so? Maybe you used the wrong term?? Annoyed??
This is my second spring season working in a big box home improvement store. Let me tell you, the floor is as nasty as it gets. Filthy dirty, dusty, not to mention that we are "pet friendly" and are forever having to clean up after pets that poo and pee on the floor. There are also lots of nails, screws, sharp items, etc. on the floor. Yet, these dodo bird customers, and even some contractors, think nothing of going all over the store in nothing but flimsy flip-flops, picking up that nasty as all heck dirt and risking a nail or screw through the foot, or possibly having a foot run over by a heavy lumber cart.
Just today, a flip-flop wearing wife in my hardware area ran over her flip-flop wearing husband's foot with their shopping cart, with him yelping in pain... Hey, are you working on a home improvement project, or catching the next bus to Cancun?
This is essentially, a lumber yard. You are not at the beach, we don't care about your latest pedicure, use some freakin' common sense.
And, if a contractor showed up at my house to do work for me in flip-flops, I'm going to tell him to go home and put some dang shoes on. No footwear is less professional, unless maybe you're a server at a tiki bar.
I remember back in the 90's and in centuries prior that people in the United States wore SHOES or at least something that covers the entire foot such as boots.
When 2000, and the years after, arrived I noticed that people started to wear flip flops not just to the beaches or to other swimming locations but anywhere considered informal. Daily, I have to endure simultaneously seeing the disgusting feet of some people in addition to hearing the sickening smacking sound that is made when the soles of the flip flops hit the ground and when people's foot soles smack their flip flop soles.
Do Americans actually wear flip flops informally abroad when visiting other countries? I'd hate to think what is going through the minds of the people in host countries, especially in developed countries, when they see an American(s) walking down a street while creating those annoying flip flop smacking sounds that I mentioned in the paragraph above. Yeck.
Is there someone else in this forum that agrees with me?
The nineties? Eighteen nineties maybe....
I very clearly remember wearing these in the early 70s:
The premise of this thread cracks me up. Brazilians have been wearing Havaianas since the 1950's and that brand has taken over the world in the last 2 decades. I know this thread's a decade old but the TC should avoid places like Brazil, Australia, SE Asia or any tropical destination for that matter.
The premise of this thread cracks me up. Brazilians have been wearing Havaianas since the 1950's and that brand has taken over the world in the last 2 decades. I know this thread's a decade old but the TC should avoid places like Brazil, Australia, SE Asia or any tropical destination for that matter.
Since you revived these responses, for our lunch at the most expensive restaurant here we were in our finest, complete with wife's Easter Bonnet, and the next couple over was wearing what my brother used to call Jesus Sandals. "How appropriate."
This is essentially, a lumber yard. You are not at the beach, we don't care about your latest pedicure, use some freakin' common sense.
And, if a contractor showed up at my house to do work for me in flip-flops, I'm going to tell him to go home and put some dang shoes on. No footwear is less professional, unless maybe you're a server at a tiki bar.
Remember the HGTV show Flip or Flop? The husband had on sandals a lot and I always wondered about that. Was it just for a quick shot or did he really work in those. That's just plain crazy to be wearing sandals on a construction site.
Remember the HGTV show Flip or Flop? The husband had on sandals a lot and I always wondered about that. Was it just for a quick shot or did he really work in those. That's just plain crazy to be wearing sandals on a construction site.
I know right? I also love to watch Nicole Curtis on Rehab Addict, but I have seen her wear flip flops while doing renovations too and I just don't get it.
For years now! The only times flop-flops are appropriate are:
On your own property
Taking the dog out for a potty break
Very near a body of water (pool, lake, ocean)
Coming home from a pedicure
Flip flops are the shoe equivalent of dirty old stained sweatpants. They say “I’m too lazy to care.” What is particularly sad is seeing women with their hair, makeup, and nails done, and a cute outfit only to be wearing flips flops. It’s like they just ran out of energy getting ready and said f-it, I just don’t care anymore. Like smoking or gu chewing, it just destroys and cheapens the whole image. The worst is the morons that wear them to WORK! That is just nasty and they should be sent home, not allowed to go around the workplace with that sticky slap-slap-slap sound and showing off their dirty feet in the workplace.
Sorry - my flip flops do not say f-it. They come in all colors with matching trimmed shearling covering insoles and they are not cheap. My cats do not care what I wear at 5:30 as long as part of the outfit is a can opener; neither does SO as long as it means coffee is being delivered; mail lady has no issue if she does not have to lug a 50-pound package to the door.
I do wear them to work with clean feet and clear polish.
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