to find flip-flops at work vulgar?

[SummaLuvin]

With the recent bout of hot weather we have been enjoying, there has been a proliferation of my colleagues who have deemed it acceptable to wear revealing sandals and flip-flops to work. I work in a corporate environment and find this overt display of naked foot highly unprofessional, not to mention vulgar. Quite frankly seeing Tony's hairy toes makes me want to heave. AIBU to find this outrageous?

Yabu. And weird.

‘Vulgar’. This sounds like snobbery to me.

I build websites and do digital marketing for a living. If someone is offended by my footwear they're welcome to go and spend four times as much getting some over-priced agency to do exactly the same thing for them. Strangely, so far everyone seems to have been quite happy to tolerate my footwear in return for a website and marketing that they can actually afford...

Beach flip flops (plasticy and foam ones) have no place in the workplace.

Sandals are fine in my opinion.

Being wound up and offended by anything other than old school business formal corporate attire seems to be quite a british thing.

Many places are business casual these days and I think that's about right

I don’t mind seeing toes though. I live in a Southern US state where everyone (except school kids) where open toed shoes all the time.

Me, too. I wore "revealing sandals" to work today. But no flip-flops for me. I can't stand that post thingy between my toes.

I don't see many men wearing revealing sandals to the office. And women in the Southern US, generally speaking, have well-groomed feet.

I build websites and do digital marketing for a living. If someone is offended by my footwear they're welcome to go and spend four times as much getting some over-priced agency to do exactly the same thing for them. Strangely, so far everyone seems to have been quite happy to tolerate my footwear in return for a website and marketing that they can actually afford...

Exactly this Except I have the tattooed feet also

My there are some hoity-toity people on here. ‘In the workplace’ ‘ in a professional environment’. So anyone who works somewhere where they can wear what they like isn’t a professional, then? Get over yourselves.

There are two MN regulars who haven't posted on this thread yet...I can pretty much guarantee they're going to

I’d probably say if it’s fine to wear denim where you work, then it’s also fine to wear flip flops

Not where I work. We are allowed to wear smart denim, but no canvas shoes, no trainers and definitely no flip flops.

I can't get worked up about this, and don't understand why some people hate feet so much, unless the feet in question are unkempt and uncared for.

And women in the Southern US, generally speaking, have well-groomed feet

And, monogrammed stationery.

I think a name like SummaLuvin is pretty vulgar actually

I had to wear flip flops at work today. It was that or not go to work at all. I dropped a chair on my foot yesterday and they were the only footwear I could get on.

Our office has arctic air con so you wouldn't want to wear flip flops anyway.

Doesn't anyone else work in an office with air con?

Doesn't anyone else work in an office with air con?

I live in Florida, so yes. But we know how to adjust thermostats.

No open toes where I work too I wear palmairas and get away with it

Doesn't anyone else work in an office with air con?

I did in my last job.

They turn the temperature up in the summer because people are wearing summer clothes.

They turn it down in winter when people are wearing winter clothes.

'And women in the Southern US, generally speaking, have well-groomed feet.'

I haven't lived in Texas since 1993 but still use Flexitol on my feet with socks every other night, use a pumice stone on my feet, keep the nails in good condition and use polish if the toes are going to be on display. Manky feet are just . . . eww.

I am currently wearing a sleeveless dress and sandals. I look smart.

Our thermostats are out in the open where anybody can get to them. Makes for an interesting dynamic and interplay among the generations.

As do I, but it is centrally controlled so any adjustment I make makes very little difference.

expat to borrow a quotation from Steel Magnolias, "you were raised right."

I don’t mind flip flops that are appropriate to the rest of the outfit I.e. summer casual, but I hate an incongruous flip flop. Also I do think they make people walk funny. Nobody has every strode along purposefully in a flip flop.
Personally I can’t wear the bloody things...that little post is agony. On holiday in Oz I spent a fortune on a pair of Fit Flops when they first came out. By the time I’d walked a couple of blocks my toes were cut to ribbons.

Expat and Seneca . I certainly had to raise my game on moving to Texas - beautiful pedicures everywhere!

I thought we were above telling people what to wear? Surely it's their own choice?

Doesn't anyone else work in an office with air con?
In our dreams. Even my patients complain about the overheated environment and I pass it on to management every single time a patient complains at least once a day. But back to the OP. YADNBU, totally unprofessional even if you possess the most beautifully manicured feet in the world.

i just can't stand that squelch of bare feet sticking to flip flops and then separating.