Sandals and crusty feet at work

You should have cast your gaze away from his feet.

I worked with a man who wore flip flops every day of the year, snow, rain whatever, his feet were out. I did not like it.

I feel the same....and i dont like the idea of a facial either!

I dont have manicures because my nails get wrecked at work, but I think im pretty presentable and hygienic! I put cream on my feet every day, and paint my own nails in summer. I had a nail infection a year or 2 ago and got it professionally treated.

My feet are terribly ticklish. It's always put me off. It's not a pleasant sensation, to me, I can't even bear my husband touching my feet. It sounds so relaxing when people talk about it, but my feet recoil at the prospect.

I must be lucky in the foot department. I have always had good feet with no effort. It's the only bit of my body I am happy with. It helps I have never worn high heels or court shoes to excess so I don't have my mother and sister's cramped together toes and bunions.

Women have always been hard on their feet. It's all very well pumice-ing and nail painting but the real damage is done by years of pushing all your weight down into a small toe-space.

I thank my narrow feet for never really getting into the typical smart heeled shoe. I can't really wear slip-ons, devastating though that was as an 80s teen before Mary Janes had a sort of retro chic. I had to wear buckled shoes like a five year old. Boy, was I grateful boots were in in the 90s.

yeah, she/he can't be for real. I shouldn't have fallen for it 😖

Could you provide some evidence of this please ?

You've jumped the shark there

Omg. So let me get this straight, Betty Joan.

1. A poster who, by her own admission, keeps her body "incredibly clean" and wears appropriate clothing, but who does not have conventionally attractive feet, gets fed up with being called manky, rank, only fit to live in a forest segregated from humanity, etc.

1. You decide that her defensive attitude is enough to prove that she has poor hygiene overall.

1. You then list the ways in which you adhere to other standards of conventional beauty, which no one else has even mentioned, to prove your superiority.

Nice.

Of course it is!

shaving legs and armpits may actually be unhygienic and unhealthy

it was a marketing ploy by a razor company way back and it started in the states. Naturally

my toenails are currently black but I can assure you they are clean and no one would be poisoned even if they ate their tea with them

How illuminating.

I didn't know shaving your legs was for hygiene purposes.

🤣

You think that shaving legs is basic hygiene? Oh dear.

I'm sorry but a hit dog hollers. I must say that this thread is a bit of an eye opener. I wouldn't dream of going out in public with unshaved legs or armpits, unfiled feet or yellow toenails and cracked cuticles. It makes me wonder what other people consider basic hygiene.

oh come ON. We've had page after page of people calling feet rank, minging, cheesy, revolting, crusty ... really strong language specifically chosen to make sandal-wearers and non-pedicurers feel bad.

You have no idea what that poster looks like, not the faintest. (The post you quoted wasn't even about that.) You just want to get on your high horse and insult her.

I don't think anyone has expressed anything like horror. Lack of interest isn't the same as dislike. I've never had a pedicure because I can't be arsed and it's never occurred to me to do so, not because I find the concept unpleasant.

Or lack thereof 😅

I have to say, I don't quite understand the posters who are horrified by pedicures. I absolutely love mine. Every other week. Feet in warm lavender scented water, lavender scrub, stress releasing massage, file straight across, paint. In between, some Cerave moisturiser before bed at night. I don't know what's not to like!

Like so many other posters, you seem to be living somewhere in the middle of the 20th century with your crusty feet and male health care professionals and golf.

It's 2026. Your 20C standards are completely unacceptable.

@user67584329 indeed it is quite mad. I think we should blame the whale oil. 😁

Yes. Between the you need to buff your toes with a 3 carat diamond and cream them with whale oil extracted in the dark of a Norwegian January midwinter night before you leave the house posters and the my eyes never descend below the horizon line, I've never noticed anyone else's knees/feet/shoes/skirt/trousers in my life, this thread is pretty bizarre.

Stop staring at people’s feet and do your work. Busy body.

Says the poster who has spent so much time on here judging other people's "wanky soaps", "treatments", "perfectly pedicured" etc! Come on now.

What makes you say that? Do you think that you know better than medical professionals?

And the dentist and the osteopath had a chuckle over it during their weekly golf round.

Which is why I went into great detail in an earlier post about what constituted self care and how I considered it to be what I would do for those who couldn't do it for themselves. Again, had absolutely nothing to do with aesthetics - just basic self-care, which will of course differ from person to person depending on age and circumstances.