Do you wear sandals to work?

LordSutch

...and are you allowed to?

I always were sandals at this time of year, firstly because they're refreshing for the feet, and secondly, its nice to get a bit of colour on the old hoofs at this time of year.

Smart sandals mind you, not the beach type.

How about you?

purpleisafruit

Only with socks, it's a good look this year I think

whoopsadoodles

No open toe shoesies in my workplace.

LordSutch

I forgot to say 'without socks'.

GalwayGrrrrrl

I'm not allowed to as I have to cover feet in case something falls on them.

This sounds like I work on a building site, when it's a healthcare setting. Those dangerous boxes of paracetamol are falling and breaking toes left right and centre!!!

whoopsadoodles

xfactorfan23 wrote: »

This sounds like I work on a building site, when it's a healthcare setting. Those dangerous boxes of paracetamol are falling and breaking toes left right and centre!!!

What about your big and baby toes?

Badly Drunk Boy

They're not allowed where I work. Safety boots all year round for me. Having said that, I haven't worn a pair of sandals since I was 4 or 5, and I've only worn shoes once or twice in the past 20 years.

Annasopra

Sometimes yeah

vandriver

Tell us about these 'smart' sandals.

circadian

I go barefoot. Run in bare foot and walk around barefoot.

LordSutch

vandriver wrote: »

Tell us about these 'smart' sandals.

Smart casual sandals for the office ...
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41h2EqysiGL._SX395_.jpg

whoopsadoodles

LordSutch wrote: »

Smart casual sandals for the office ...
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41h2EqysiGL._SX395_.jpg

Ah! Nike Air Moses.

Not smart. Just casual.

Unless you work in the desert.

LordSutch

Nice, comfortable, & acceptable in the office.

Hector Bellend

Yes. With Bermudas and a nice hawaiian shirt.

I look awesome

Keyzer

If you worked with me you would know what utter contempt looks like

fizzypish

Work in an ESD area. Have croc like ESD shoes. They are easy, comfortable and I hate them. I just feel like a twat. Miss my boots.

dudara

Open toed shoes not officially allowed by our dress code. In reality, women wear them and as long as they're work-style, no issues. Can't imagine any of the guys rocking up in Birkenstocks though

smurfjed

Not a hope, my feet would freeze, plus with humidity the steps to my office get wet and slippery.

Neyite

Yep I do.

I flip-flop my way around the office from April to October. :P

Shenshen

Yes, definitely. Got a pair of mid-heeled ones on at the moment. I'd hate having to wear footwear that's inappropriately warm.

Tom Mann Centuria

xfactorfan23 wrote: »

I'm not allowed to as I have to cover feet in case something falls on them.

This sounds like I work on a building site, when it's a healthcare setting. Those dangerous boxes of paracetamol are falling and breaking toes left right and centre!!!

I work in a health care setting too, but I worry about hoists and commodes hitting my feet as well as "other" stuff spilling on them, or what I may accidentally step on.

glynf

LordSutch wrote: »

Smart casual sandals for the office ...
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41h2EqysiGL._SX395_.jpg

Linus tech tips with a hint of German tourist, nice...

I prefer decent trainers-ultra boosts or the like when I can get away with it, the mesh type upper ones are great in the heat.

lawred2

LordSutch wrote: »

...and are you allowed to?

I always were sandals at this time of year, firstly because they're refreshing for the feet, and secondly, its nice to get a bit of colour on the old hoofs at this time of year.

Smart sandals mind you, not the beach type.

How about you?

uurggh gross

lawred2

LordSutch wrote: »

Smart casual sandals for the office ...
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41h2EqysiGL._SX395_.jpg

they.

are.

disgusting.

ederkeh

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Yes. With Bermudas and a nice hawaiian shirt.

I look awesome

I wonder what do they call Bermudas in Bermuda? Just shorts?

Gravelly

LordSutch wrote: »

Smart sandals mind you, not the beach type.

"Smart Sandals" is an oxymoron.

Alun

Wear what you like and ignore the pathetic self-appointed fashion police.

LadyMacBeth_

I haven't worn sandals to work myself but plenty of the other women do, and it's a professional business. I can't see anything wrong with it.

Glenster

If OP is a woman then its grand.

If OP is a man and works in a hospital as, like, a nurse's assistant and the sandals he's talking about are these, then grand



Anything else, no. I've never seen it. I reject the premise that it has ever happened and I curse you for making me imagine it.

ILikeBoats

Just looked up our dress code policy. Surprised that we are allowed wear them!

- professional dress sandals

LordSutch

Mr.S wrote: »

You are the person in the office everyone hates.

Dunno? Although I must admit that I'm the only male sandal wearer in the Dublin office. The London office is a different kettle of fish...

Lucyfur

Not allowed, which is stupid cos no one can see my feet. Spent my pregnancy barefoot cos I'm a rebel. And also cos my feet were too fat for shoes.

biko

Poll needed

Glenster

biko wrote: »

Poll needed

About how we'd like OP to be punished?

I vote that his nose should have to be within 6 inches of someone else's horrible hairy toes for the rest of his life.

lawred2

Glenster wrote: »

About how we'd like OP to be punished?

I vote that his nose should have to be within 6 inches of someone else's horrible hairy toes for the rest of his life.

unwashed hairy toes with some sort of nail fungus

Dr Turk Turkelton

LordSutch wrote: »

Smart casual sandals for the office ...
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41h2EqysiGL._SX395_.jpg

Ah I get it now,your a priest.
Very smart footwear there Father.

LordSutch

Or a Monk

Could wear them if I wanted (some people even wear flip-flops in the office) but I wouldn't, in fact I've never even owned a pair of sandals.

Glenster

Ernesto Silly Girl wrote: »

Could wear them if I wanted (some people even wear flip-flops in the office) but I wouldn't, in fact I've never even owned a pair of sandals.

See that OP?

Those are standards.

Gravelly

Ernesto Silly Girl wrote: »

Could wear them if I wanted (some people even wear flip-flops in the office) but I wouldn't, in fact I've never even owned a pair of sandals.

Sandals would be bad enough, but if someone rolled into my office in flip flops they'd be mocked mercilessly for a few minutes, then sent packing.

theteal

"Honey, have you seen my suit that goes with these sandals?"


"Sweetie-pie, such a thing does not exist. . .hang on, where did you get those things?. . . . .

. . . . I'm going to stay at my mothers"

corner of hells

LordSutch wrote: »

Mr.S wrote: »

You are the person in the office everyone hates.

Dunno? Although I must admit that I'm the only male sandal wearer in the Dublin office. The London office is a different kettle of fish...

I'd like to see the person wearing a kettle of fish.

TheIrishGrover

No. And NOBODY should wear sandals in work.......

CalamariFritti

For a man, sandals are easily the most hideous piece of footwear ever invented. Nothing proves the wearer's lack of aesthetic sense like a pair of those.

Women's sandals aren't fantastic either but are so overwhelmingly outdone by mens's sandals on the ugly scale that they're not worth talking about.

Edit: In the office. Unspeakable.

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Gravelly

Gravelly wrote: »

Sandals would be bad enough, but if someone rolled into my office in flip flops they'd be mocked mercilessly for a few minutes, then sent packing.

There is no dress code whatsoever in my office, coupled with a very wide range of people working there from very junior or even summer students right up to very senior people you will get a very wide range of dress.

You will have people in three piece suits and you will have people in track suits and a jersey. The most common attire would be jeans/chinos and a t-shirt/shirt with casual shoes or runners with the very dressed and the very under dressed being the minority.

While I don't agree with wearing flip-flops or tracksuits to work I also hate dress codes and as most people tend to dress ok I'd rather have no dress code and let the few who want to wear what they want, what difference does it make at the end of the day.

Wanderer78

Love my sandels, wear them all year round most of the time

Gravelly

Ernesto Silly Girl wrote: »

There is no dress code whatsoever in my office, coupled with a very wide range of people working there from very junior or even summer students right up to very senior people you will get a very wide range of dress.

You will have people in three piece suits and you will have people in track suits and a jersey. The most common attire would be jeans/chinos and a t-shirt/shirt with casual shoes or runners with the very dressed and the very under dressed being the minority.

While I don't agree with wearing flip-flops or tracksuits to work I also hate dress codes and as most people tend to dress ok I'd rather have no dress code and let the few who want to wear what they want, what difference does it make at the end of the day.

My office would be much the same - some of us dress in business attire, while some (mostly the younger ones, and those who don't need to meet clients or venture outside as part of work) wear everything from T shirt and jeans, to the odd tracksuit. No sandals though. That's a line I won't have crossed.

WoollyRedHat

I walk around on my feet and hands. I don't wear gloves and get odd looks.

ilkhanid

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

Ah! Nike Air Moses.
Not smart. Just casual.

Unless you work in the desert.

Agreed. Blunt and practical-looking. In fact there are precious few examples of dressy-looking sandals for men. There's the practical....and that's that, unlike women where, as usual, there is a huge choice.

rainbow kirby

I do wear them with dresses or cropped trousers on warm days. We've already had a good few 30+ days this summer so they were quite necessary!

I work a desk job in IT. Dress code in our department is somewhere in the region of "please wear clothes".