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Malc.

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Location
Pembrokeshire
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Probably a contentious issue, but here goes.....

We need to protect our feet, so, socks with sandals? It may not be the fashionable thing, but I'm comfortable and that's more important!
There, I've said it!

Malc.
 
Nooooooo



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Think this would be an issue if there was any loss of sensation in the feet. Still nooooo lol

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This is just as bad as driving a car with gloves and a hat on.......
Please refrain from this horrendous faux pas !


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My hubby drives with hat and gloves on.
Socks and sandals, NO!


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I occasionally wear gloves to drive in the winter. But temperatures are regularly -10 degrees here so I think it's allowed - otherwise I couldn't touch the steering wheel!
 
Nice leather gloves in the winter, and occasionally a very elegant hat, if its seriously cold. ( I have one that's never failed to make London bus drivers and cabbies smile )

In the summer, trainer socks and deck shoes with long linen trousers, if I have to do any amount of walking and fitflops, again with long linen trousers, the rest of the time. I've been a bit more careful about being barefoot since I stood on a stinging nettle a couple of weeks ago!


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No no no no no. Also, NO! Light shoes, deck shoes, crocs anything but socks and sandals. If it catches on then the world really is in decline!:lol:

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Yes I have to agree! Big fat NO! It's like wearing PJs out & about!


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Socks with sandals? YES!!

I posted something similar recently when enquiring about clogs. I mentioned that I would settle for a solid soled sandal and would it be OK to wear socks as I am now 60 and could probably get away with it. The lynching party is on its way....

But why? Why not wear socks with sandals? Being a carpenter I feel that I have a good link with the most famous sandal wearer of all time, Jesus. If socks had been around 2000 years ago...?

I used to wear sandals all year round, no socks. During the winter I would ride my motorbike to work and then have to tap out the compacted snow from between my toes. Some years back I suffered very bad sun burn to my feet while spraying a car outdoors. The cellulose overspray must have leached the oil from my feet and the sun got to them. Not good for a ginger haired person. From then on I almost always wore socks with sandals.

Let us form a club. Members must wear socks when wearing sandals, oh and a cardie too. I love cardies me. So practical. They have pockets for your bits and bobs. In the right pocket I keep a hankie for my glasses, and my car keys. In the left pocket I have a hankie for wiping my nose. Mustn't get them mixed up, what?

Somewhere on this site is a picture of me wearing my Cornish Pulligan. A Pulligan with sandals (plus socks), I like the sound of that.
 
Oh, come on folks! Why be a slave to fashion? The 'sandal wearer' has come to set you free. I wear the sock; there, I've said it. I'm proud, yes, proud that I don't care what the world thinks. I have an independent spirit - my feet are my own concern and nobody else's (except the practice nurse). Let's all get a life and look each other in the eye, not the foot.
As for wearing PJs; aren't some traditional african & middle-eastern costumes a bit like that? Very cool in our Summer heat, lovely.
 

I do hope you are wearing a vest under that cardie, tucked into your underpants!
 
gezzathorpe said:
I do hope you are wearing a vest under that cardie, tucked into your underpants!
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Gezza, There are VERY few people on this planet who will get to see that particular sight! :sick:
 
gezzathorpe said:
I do hope you are wearing a vest under that cardie, tucked into your underpants!
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Tanktops like Onslow's are cooler.

 
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