Socks & Sandals.................
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Audra,
Read the book "The Millionaire Next Door." While some politicians would like you to believe that millionaires are all like Thurston Howell, the reality is that most are closer to the guys in your town.
Read the book "The Millionaire Next Door." While some politicians would like you to believe that millionaires are all like Thurston Howell, the reality is that most are closer to the guys in your town.
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I suspect those in the no socks and sandals camp are not atheletes.
One wears socks to keep the feet warm in the early morning, and/or because the footwear you are going to change into later will require socks. (Bike shoes, soccer shoes, etc.) One wears sandals because they are easy to slip in and out of when the change of shoes occurs. You can stand on top of the sandals to keep your feet clean as you hide behind something changing your clothes after the event. Apres-bike (or whatever) you take off the now sweaty socks and slip into the sandals sans socks (in such weather) or other footwear if you brought 'em.
This "look" has been around for years.
One wears socks to keep the feet warm in the early morning, and/or because the footwear you are going to change into later will require socks. (Bike shoes, soccer shoes, etc.) One wears sandals because they are easy to slip in and out of when the change of shoes occurs. You can stand on top of the sandals to keep your feet clean as you hide behind something changing your clothes after the event. Apres-bike (or whatever) you take off the now sweaty socks and slip into the sandals sans socks (in such weather) or other footwear if you brought 'em.
This "look" has been around for years.
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Lightspeed Chick, I think you are exactly right. Makes sense as to why so many people in the PNW wear this...there are a lot of outdoor enthusiasts here. I know our entire family wears tevas and birkenstocks to and from the trailheads.
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Hey, Litespeed, the sock and sandal wearers I see on an average day are definately not athletes. I recently stood in line behind a group of people. In front of me was a couple, both the husband and wife were wearing socks and sandals. She had on thong sandals with ankle straps and dirty white socks, which I assume got that way by walking around in the sand and dust wearing sandals. He had on black socks, brown sandals and was wearing his leather cowboy vest with denim shorts! Neither looked the least bit athletic and I am pretty sure they weren't changing into bike shoes once they got inside. LOL
I have been known to run to my car in my socks and slippers out of spin class after changing out of my biking shoes, but I never go to dinner or strolling around town like that, anymore than I would in my work out clothes!
I have been known to run to my car in my socks and slippers out of spin class after changing out of my biking shoes, but I never go to dinner or strolling around town like that, anymore than I would in my work out clothes!
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Here's another factor: in northern California during many months it is hot enough during the day to want to wear sandals, but cool enough at night to need your feet covered. It's a lot easier to throw a pair of socks into your bag than to carry an extra pair of shoes. These were the circumstances under which my fashion travesties occurred.
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I have lived in Oregon for 13 years now, and one of the things I had to get "used to" when moving here was the socks and sandals mania here in the Northwest. Still not used to it. To top it off, Oregonians wear this stuff year-round. It can be 40 degrees outside in the middle of January and you'll still see guys in shorts, sporting the sandals/socks combo. Other than that though, I love it here!
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Ok - not to get off the topic of travel but gone2Maui's comment about spin class made me laugh - for the LONGEST time I had no idea what spin class was. I knew it was some exercise thing - maybe something with hoopa-hoops or ribbons on a pole where everybody danced around in a circle with them? I don't know, I just heard the term a few times. When I learned that it was just a new term for riding a stationary bike I almost fell on the floor laughing. SPIN class?
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Actually, my hubby had a pretty good reason for putting on socks with his sandals.... He had put on sandals early in the morning, as we left Boston, as we were anticipating major heat down the road. Then discovered his feet were freezing as he got out to walk the dog, etc. So rather than dig out the whole trunk for his sneakers & socks to change into, he just pulled out socks from the used laundry bag, and put them on with his sandals. As the day got warmer and we got farther south, he STILL had the socks on! So the dog and I just walked a few paces back at that point!;-)
Here_Today, I'm still trying to visualize that girl wearing socks with thong sandals........ how? Sounds painful to me.......
Here_Today, I'm still trying to visualize that girl wearing socks with thong sandals........ how? Sounds painful to me.......
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missjanna, If we in the PNW waited until it was warm to wear our sandals, we wouldn't get to use our sandals more than a few weeks in a good year! And only a few hours a day, during those good weeks, in fact. So socks it is and they go year round! A good investment!
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J_Correa, laughing with you about the Spin class. I went with a young relative, imagining that she was going to be somehow spinning on something (imagine a kid on one of those round snow sled disks or something like that?;-) ) Come to find out, she was doing nothing more than riding a stationery bike, just like I used to when I worked out at the "Y." Oh, well, everything old becomes new again, they say.........
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Bonnie, I seriously doubt you had an equivalent workout riding a stationary bike at the Y. Do you do pushups, sprints, crunches and intense hill climbs at the Y? Are you burning 500 to 800 calories in one workout? Saying that Spinning is nothing more than riding a stationary bike is like calling running a marathon nothing more than jog.
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I didn't have the recent workout......my niece did! But why do you think that sprints, push-ups, ab crunches were just invented? People have been doing those in combination with using other work-out equipment for a long, long time! You may call some of the things by a different name but it's all strenous exercise.
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oh, for goodness sakes, wear what you like, if it keeps the blisters away.
Tacky is a word only tacky people use.
The only thing that is visualluy bad is a man in shorts with black sox and shoes.
enjoy yourself, each day is your own, not someone else's to make you happy.
Socks and sandals, socks and sandals
Go together like a match and candle.
....and then I wrote...
Tacky is a word only tacky people use.
The only thing that is visualluy bad is a man in shorts with black sox and shoes.
enjoy yourself, each day is your own, not someone else's to make you happy.
Socks and sandals, socks and sandals
Go together like a match and candle.
....and then I wrote...