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From The Times:
"Just what is our national problem with socks and sandals? To hear some people go on about it, you’d think it was a crime right up there with paedophilia and mass murder. When, a few years ago, it was discovered that the Romans might have worn socks with their sandals, the strength of public reaction implied that their achievement in having bequeathed us the aqueduct, sanitation, roads and irrigation ought suddenly to be rendered null and void. There’s even a website — http://www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk — the modern-day equivalent of the stocks, designed publicly to humiliate with embarrassing pictures anyone caught wearing the dreaded footwear combo.
"But are socks and sandals really such a terrible thing? At the risk of being pelted with rotten tomatoes, I’d say not, and this isn’t just a fashion-pundit-being-gratuitously-controversial thing going on here. The truth is, it is perfectly possible to carry off this reviled Nuts-in-May look. All you need is to be youthful, good-looking, utterly self-possessed and totally fearless. For the rest of us, however, the law stands. Socks and sandals may serve any number of functions, such as stopping your feet freezing, sweating or chafing, and they may look quite attractive if you get the combination right."
"Just what is our national problem with socks and sandals? To hear some people go on about it, you’d think it was a crime right up there with paedophilia and mass murder. When, a few years ago, it was discovered that the Romans might have worn socks with their sandals, the strength of public reaction implied that their achievement in having bequeathed us the aqueduct, sanitation, roads and irrigation ought suddenly to be rendered null and void. There’s even a website — http://www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk — the modern-day equivalent of the stocks, designed publicly to humiliate with embarrassing pictures anyone caught wearing the dreaded footwear combo.
"But are socks and sandals really such a terrible thing? At the risk of being pelted with rotten tomatoes, I’d say not, and this isn’t just a fashion-pundit-being-gratuitously-controversial thing going on here. The truth is, it is perfectly possible to carry off this reviled Nuts-in-May look. All you need is to be youthful, good-looking, utterly self-possessed and totally fearless. For the rest of us, however, the law stands. Socks and sandals may serve any number of functions, such as stopping your feet freezing, sweating or chafing, and they may look quite attractive if you get the combination right."