Those Adidas sandals are the stupidest looking shoes I have ever seen, and are usually worn by slack-jawed suburban white kids trying to look "street."
Goddamn those are hideous.
If young men wore housecoats and hot rollers, these would be the logical shoe choice to complete the trifecta of humiliation.
Awful.

but of course they are hideous, they are SHOWER shoes for fucks sakes

fuckers who wear them in the street should be shot in the ass

however in the shower or by a pool are great & prevent foot fungus. they also drain water nicely due to the knobby insole. walking around in them as if they were street shoes is like wearing exposed underpants with shitstains on them. i think so anyway. keep them in the goddamn gym.

there is no excuse for a man to ever wear sandals. and a man wearing flipflops when he isn't at the beach is asking to kicked in the nuts. and girls who wear flip flops not at the beach are skating on thin ice, i.e. only if they are very pretty, have cute feet and extra summery steez can they pull it off.

but it's all bollocks, who needs to wear fucking shoes when they are in the bloody shower, or walking around the side of a fucking swimmimg pool?

said the boy in the model pictures :p

there is an area between flipflop and shoe that is covered by leather sandals. but this works only in hot weather, obviously. for cold weather there are shoes and boots.


im not walking barefoot into a filthy shower gym. maybe you like itchy feet but blech, foot fungus sucks, and doesn't lend itself to good action in bed. spraying chemicals should only be a last resort.

the worst thing of all are men who wear shoes without socks

Is this a style issue or a smelly sweaty feet issue?

High heeled sneakers!.... Hmmm.

I'll wear flip-flops to the pool, or those Adidas things !@#$%! posted. I don't care what they look like, they're for the pool - and they're cheap. Other than that I hate sandals or anything like them. I could care less if other people wear them, though. And socks with sandals doesn't bother me like it does most people. I feel obligated to look respectable, I suppose, but why should I care if someone else doesn't, when it doesn't affect me in the least? Minding that stuff is just unnecessary stress, which I'm sure no one needs. Eh, wear whatever you want.

^i wholeheartedly agree with that.
except that i don't have flipflops myself, but i've had them before when going to the beach.
i wouldn't wear sandals myself, but some of you are a bunch of fashion nazis! :p

Are we failing to grasp the humor?And what about men who wear tight jeans and stilettos?They are out there,believe me.:p <This face is annoying.

nah... i was just surprised how some of you sounded like you got genuinely aggressive from seeing people like these:
http://www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk/

sorry for the :p, pork.

hahaha.That website made me almost choke on my sandwich!

or leather and latex. Great band by the way!

...and i mean 70s metal head look complete with eyeliner and wearing RED STILETTOS!In the Joiners Arms if Toilet & Bowels would care to explain about the place.

style, it offends my eyes and brain. i don't care if other men's feet smell.

it's not looking at them that makes me aggressive, it's reading their wrong-headed opinions in this thread that makes me want to cut off their feet to teach them the error of their ways.

well as far as i know it's the gayest pub or club in my neighbourhood.

The majority of people who dislike the sandal live in England. This is what I have observed. Perhaps the UK demographic of this board has foot appearance issues, maybe the feets are too pale and weird, maybe they have never seen the sun. If thats the case, then don't bash the sandal, because in many cultures that's what everyone wears and nobody thinks twice about it. Flip flops are what I grew up wearing and everyone wears them in Brazil as house shoes and just regular foot wear. It could be that the UK folks don't have the sunny/hot/humid weather factor in their favor. If you had to be me right now, with everyday around 36-38 degrees celsius and humid as a sauna to boot, you might think twice about lacing up those boots and grabbing your favourite pair of trousers. Just a thought.

If it weren't for convention and broken glass I wouldn't actually wear any shoes in the summer.

Yeah me too, like I said before I have a naturally downtrodden look about me.

True.

It reminds me of that story about the man who goes into a shoe shop & buys shoes that are obviously too small for him. When asked by the shop assistant why he tortures himself wearing shoes that are too small he replies, "Taking them off at the end of the day is the only pleasure I get".

Try wearing DM's in this weather, it feels so GOOD peeling them off at the end of the day.

Whatever, you look as cheery and chipper as a school boy on his first day of summer :) haha

I've been there pookie, I went through my DM phase about ten years ago, where I ALWAYS wore the bastards. I know the feeling, it is good, but I never wrote off sandals back then and still wore them. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that sandals are accepted in many cultures and are not a sign of male incapability if worn by said gender, actually its the men who are too scared or ashamed to wear them that are the ones that should examine their ''macho factor''. Cheers.

Liar, I only look like that when someone bring's over the Bell's Oberon Ale.*awaits bells oberon ale*

I think a large part of the unpopularity of the male sandal in the UK is that they have become inextricably linked with middle aged men wearing them with knee length thick woolly socks and large baggy shorts.

One bad apple......

god, this thread teems with nerdy humor and arguments. Men, who don't wear sandals, when the thermometer says more than 30°C outside, actually don't do a favor to their feet. I don't wear them at work/university or when going out though, only when i go to the supermarket or the baths and that's what i do most during long vacation.

Looks like the poll is equal at the moment. The sandals are coming back in style. :)

I'm wearing my Birks/no socks to work today.

Also:

Cargo pants (dark green) by Arizona Jeans, $20.
T-shirt (plain navy blue), untucked, by Fruit of the Loom, $4.
Leather belt (brown) by Eddie Bauer, $10
Haircut, Stan's Barber Shop, $17 plus tip.
Backpack (blue) by Jansport, $25

You need a camera around your neck now!

as long as your feet aren't ugly, but i agree with others about sandals with straps, looks too crunchie

Canon Powershot (inside backpack), $200

you should see the fatty tanline on my feet...

Some sandals are ok. Flip-flops suck. As do sport sandals. Hippie sandals are kinda cool because they are more comfortable. Anyone wearing socks with sandals (shoebies) are idiots. Sandals are made to be worn without socks. It's like a woman (or some men) wearing socks with high heels. It's just ridiculous looking.

Sandles are alright I guess, though who the fuck wants to smell sweaty feet? I hate flip flops though, they drive me the fuck crazy! FLIP, FLOP, FLIP, FLOP! The sound never ends.

I don't wear sandals or shorts.

I loathe wearing shorts, but in 90 degree weather on a bicycle I would die inside of 5 minutes. I am very sensitive to heat, and sometimes I just have no choice. I still won't wear sandals though. Shorts are totally not rock, but in the dead of summer rockness must occasionally be set on the back burner for me.

I wear BICYCLE shorts when I bike.

I hate wearing jeans when I bike because they pinch the back of my knees, and slow me down.
But it makes you look COOL.