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| Do you wear socks with sandals? |
| Yes, because otherwise my feet reek |
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| No, I wouldn't be caught dead in socks and sandals |
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| No, I think wearing socks defeats the purpose of wearing sandals |
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| I couldn't care less. |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Omkara wrote: |
Two points:
1) How do the locals feel about it? (There are, after all, few waygooks to pass judgement. . .)
2) What about socks with sandals when you're wearing long pants? |
Yea, I like the socks with sandals when wearing long pants look. |
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Tokki1
Joined: 14 May 2007
Location: The gap between the Korean superiority and inferiority complex
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Omkara wrote: |
Two points:
1) How do the locals feel about it? (There are, after all, few waygooks to pass judgement. . .)
2) What about socks with sandals when you're wearing long pants? |
Good points. Actually I've had K-girlfriends and K-friends comment on my tendency to wear socks with sandals. I only do this when I'm out and about in public, because there's something with the rubber/leather against my feet which breeds pure evil. On the beach or around the hood I let my toes breathe. I definitely get more comments from the locals (as in my friends who have some sense of fashion) than random wae-guks when I prance around in my socks and sandals 
With long pants I think it's easier to get away with socks and sandals.
I don't agree with Zappa, though. I think sandals, without socks, looks far cooler. The question is, though, is how cool it smells  |
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passport220
Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do province
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Socks with sandals may be a fashion taboo but, it's oh so comfortable!!! |
When in Rome........ |
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Omkara
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: USA
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:27 am Post subject: |
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Here's a question that I'd love to have answered.
At home, I'd kill the funky smell by using certain powders. Who has a good idea for killing the odor in leather sandals? Mine haven't taken on that rotting flesh scent quite yet, but it is rather humid here. . . . |
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Tokki1
Joined: 14 May 2007
Location: The gap between the Korean superiority and inferiority complex
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:46 am Post subject: |
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Hmm...I put mine in the freezer...wash them with antibacterial soap. I get a good 45 minutes out of them in the humidity and heat before the demonspawn is born again between my flesh and the footwear. Socks are the only things that help, hence the strange post. Flip flops seem to be less offensive for some reason. Somebody needs to conduct a scientific study on this phenomenon.  |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| Open toe shoes are open for a reason. If you want to wear socks with footwear buy runners. |
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Tokki1
Joined: 14 May 2007
Location: The gap between the Korean superiority and inferiority complex
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Open toe shoes are open for a reason. If you want to wear socks with footwear buy runners. |
Hmm. Problem solved? |
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Omkara
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: USA
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:40 am Post subject: |
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| Actually, I sometimes tuck my shirt into my underwear--just to be a rebel. Sox and sandals just isn't brave enough these days. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:42 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, because otherwise my feet reek |
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It's all about odor control for me. Socks=fresh feet, no socks=foul cheese
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Thanks for those charming images. |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| edit: got way too off topic writing about Mindmetoo's hot girlfriend. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:16 am Post subject: |
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Bare feet are acceptable in restaurants here.
If your feet stink, your customary footwear is inappropriate. |
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Tokki1
Joined: 14 May 2007
Location: The gap between the Korean superiority and inferiority complex
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:36 am Post subject: |
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| I think amputation is the only solution. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
Bare feet are acceptable in restaurants here.
If your feet stink, your customary footwear is inappropriate. |
I was once pretty embarrassed after a day walking with sandals sans socks. The group I was with were really turned off their restaurant meal by my rancid feet. I ended up washing them in the bathroom.
If I know I'm going to do a lot of walking then I will wear socks with sandals. Fashion be damned. |
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Tokki1
Joined: 14 May 2007
Location: The gap between the Korean superiority and inferiority complex
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:02 am Post subject: |
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The low-cut socks aren't bad. It's not like you're wearing knee-highs  |
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badfish
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| seoulsucker wrote: |
As I sit in my b-boy stance...with flip flops and socks...in sweatpants...
Name that tune... |
wheels of steel listened to it last night what an album |
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