Flip-flop etiquette

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Where do you feel it is acceptable to wear flip flops? Are they proper shoes or slippers?

DH made this face [buhmm] at me when I decided to weary flip flops to the supermarket the other day (it was sunny, I was wearing a skirt and light jacket). He said I might as well have gone in my PJs.

Toilet shoes!!! ^Please expand on this [bugrin]

Slatternly - or cool - depending on your age, outfit, sexiness etc etc

I live in my £1 Primark flip-flops!

I am violently opposed to flipflips anywhere but on the beach at work but since I don't rule the world [puzzled smiley] I have to tolerate them. On that basis, supermarket is ok.

That's alright then, I pride myself on my slatternly skills - I haven't ironed in 12 years [busmile]

I love flip flops, it means the weather is good if people are wearing them (excluding a lady wearing them at the garden centre today when it was freezing).

Bit wrong for the office though.

Flip flops aren't really on for office wear, IMO. Birkenstocks are, though. They are more robust for one thing.

A woman at my old office used to wear flip flops with a trouser suit but she was a sociopath that was the least of her problems.

I went to a christening recently and the christened child's mother wore flip flops. I thought that might be taking casual wear a bit far - but generally I'd say fine for anything other than work or church or formal occasions.

I agree that a christening is too formal an occasion for flip flops.

Nowhere. Ever. Invented by Satan himself.

Scurry my DH (no real views on flipflops) and I are POSL at Phillippe Floppe!! Had to stop Silent Witness on the recorder as we were laughing so much!!!

I think what makes them seem so bad, is the fact you all call them flip flops! What's wrong with thongs? Yes, I know what you call thongs here ? [runs away to hide in corner]

No, calling them thongs makes them seem even worse...

I wouldn't wear flip flops at a christening either, and I'm a self-confessed slattern. I would never wear a thong at all...

I love flip flops, I would wear them anywhere I would wear jeans.

Wel, Ido, I am Australian , too, and I would not have been wearing thongs any time recently, as it has been too bloody cold!

The English think that just because the sun is shining that it is warm. They are wrong.

Never would wear them or sandals or anything that doesn't completely cover my feet - I don't like feet, so unattractive!

I wear flip flops to work.
Very practical.
Also very cheap so you can have them in every colour to go with every outfit.

I wear them from March to October. I hate shoes (unless they are sparkly, high affairs).
You wouldnt catch me in a brogue

Just for the record they are very plain, black puma flip flops, they cost about a tenner and I get a new pair each year, they are the most comfortable flip flops ever.

So, it is mostly acceptable to wear flip flops at the supermarket unless it's cold.

Haha, yes Handmade, - I laugh on the inside when "heat wave" is mentioned!

As soon as I read your op I was going to ask is he Italian. I'm half italian so completely know what he's on about! My Dh often wants to bang his head on the wall about all the unwritten rules! I even have moments of feeling ashamed walking around London in my sandals and hear my dad's 'what are you a franciscan monk?'. Flip flops forget it, I just couldn't. Be grateful you weren't brought up with all this clothing etiquette! And maybe don't wear flip
flops in non beach settings in France!

Can someone humour me and define exactly what a flip flop is? My take on it would be the ones with the toe post - look a bit uncomfortable to me.

Wouldn't be allowed in our working areas anyway - have to be closd toe (I have got away with wearing closed toed crocs though)

I am 33 and I only over came my flip flop phobia last year, I wear them anywhere! I love them and think they look really cool and casula and metallic jewelled ones can look nice for more formal dos.. and i wear them to work!

Mine are bronze fit flops, I do think they look nice - and as I had developed plantar fasciitis they were a lifesaver too. I have since bought their sandals, ankle boots and slippers and am now nearly cured, but 'twas the fitflops that started it, and I will never again wear another brand of flipflop.

And yes, ferret they are the ones with the toe post - you get used to it in a couple of days, but obviously if you need closed toes you're stuffed.

1. Used to wear them to work (can't in new job), totally depends where you work.

1. Have worn them to christenings/formal occasions.

1. Live in them for 6 months of the year (except new job, sob)

1. Never wear ones that cost less than 25quid (not for snob value, but because I wear well built ones, with arch support etc.. So as not to ruin my feet learnt the hard way

1. Have a range from suitable for the Beach through to suitable for work, through to suitable for a posh do.

1. AND finally I wore them at my wedding and encouraged everyone else too as well (and it was in a church).