Daughter won't take her socks off on holiday

I think the socks and sliders thing is to separate the yoof from the fuddie duddies. They are succeeding...

I always thought bots would return and spam with replies. There seems to be a real uptick in posters saying something bizarre and never returning to the thread.

This was my thought

I'm 56 and I very rarely wear sandals. I like my feet to feel protected, and can't stand all the bits of grit and sand that get in your feet.

I wear trainers and socks all summer, wherever I am. I haven't expired yet.

Reminds me of when I wore socks all the time around my parents (also at 21) because I had a secret tattoo! A possibility maybe?

I wonder if the weird threads are started by bots.

Yup.

Socks with sliders or sandals are a big fashion statement at the moment. She probably thinks it looks great. Either that or she's had a tattoo she doesn't want you to see, or she hates something about her feet. It doesn't really matter, does it? So long as she doesn't try to wear them in the pool I don't see the issue. If she's prepared to tolerate a postman's suntan that's up to her.

There's some weird threads today. I'm discombobulated.

My 16 year old will only ever wear his school kickers (well he has an old pair for dirty places!) and of course socks no matter what all year round.

his feet are safe and he is comfy so who cares!

You'd hate me. I wear trainers most the time on holiday. Unless I'm going to the pool/sea to swim I'm likely to have socks on. I have no desire to get loads of dust stuck to suncreamed feet unless absolutely necessary and if I'm on a city break I don't want exposed feet in a city environment. I'm also not fussed about tan lines as the UK is often too cold to be without a pair (or 2) of socks.

I have a sibling a similar age, it seems to be a trend to be repulsed by feet or to quip something like ‘no free feet pics’. She wears her socks with all sorts of footwear. But on hot holidays she quickly realises she a) is overheating and b) while
its a thing in her part of the world, other young adults from other countries are normal and she’s the weirdo. And the feet are out.

so don’t worry about it, she’lo come round 😂😂

Good grief OP surely as an adult she is allowed to choose what she wears?

Don't be so controlling !

She's not going to get a bacteria or parasitic infection like you risk being barefoot @NiftyMember

Shes probably thinks her feet are ugly. My sister in law wears doc Martins 24/7 I think she wears them in bed. I asked why once she told me I said no ones feet are that bad she showed me they were.

Nope, my husband won't be parted from his socks either. Only removed for bed and showers/baths, and he's the wrong side of 50. Thankfully he also refuses to wear sandals so socks and sandals aren't an issue.

I can recall a relative saying the same about her husband who is now in his late 80s. Decades ago they went to a nudist beach and her husband happily stripped everything off bar his shoes and socks which remained firmly on his feet throughout (that was far too much information for teenage me at the time, I did not want to think about people of my parents generation getting naked!).

It’s fashionable for that generation

When I was a little bit younger than this, keeping my feet covered at all times was because I had a nail problem in my little toe nail and the next toe nail that looked horrible and I knew that no one would take it seriously and I finally showed my mum and I was right! actually I had to flipping beg the doctor (parents had to pay for appointment under that system) for the tablets which did eventually work. I’ve not seen anyone saying this so I am 🤷🏽‍♀️

My daughter’s friend spent all of last years summer holiday with her parents wearing socks. This was because on their girls holiday 3 weeks before hand she’d lost a bet and had a penis and the name of their geography teacher tattood on her foot.

Have you seen your daughter’s feet recently?

Point at and laugh at her gleaming white feet?

It’s just a fashion.. quite ok & her choice

Neither is needed, she can just wear socks.

This.

But there could be a whole host of reasons why she keeps her feet covered. Live and let live is what I say.

TBH that’s not even an argument I’d bother having with a 3 year old let alone a 21 year old!!

Just ridiculous OP, you obviously don't actually meaningfully believe she will overheat from wearing socks. Almost all adults with the exception of the very unwell, are perfectly capable of taking actions to regulate their own body temperature.

Crucially, just mind your own business. Nobody cares what your summer footwear preferences are and you should extend the same courtesy to her. Perhaps she is insecure about her feet, perhaps she simply finds it more comfortable - either way hardly worth noticing, not worth thinking about and rude and strange to comment on it to her.