to want to tell people to cover up their cracked heels and acres of hard yellowing skin?

[mrsmerryweather]

now that we have all gone tightless and sockless....

it is just revolting when you see a made-up woman then get to her feet and see acres of white/yellow/grey hard skin on her heels.

Have they never heard of footfiles and foot cream?

FWIW neither I nor my post were/are aggressive.

I give up.

You are welcome, Mrsm!

Stealth, you have every right to tell Mrsm you thinks she is BU. She, on the other hand, has every right not to agree with you. And she has expressed her opinions in a much more balanced way than you have.

You are obviously able to speak on behalf all women spokette.I must be the only woman on the planet (and apparently a liar) that doesnt look at other womens cracked heels.
Where do you find the time to be the fashion police, foot care expert,and put witty posts on MN ? lol

I wasn't trying to be funny yorkshire. But if it makes you laugh, hurray! But that was the life she lived - she chose to do all that (well most of it). We weren't poverty-stricken but she liked all that self-sufficiency stuff. And her priorities were different. I don't think that people of her generation were so concerned with grooming every inch of themselves. I wish we weren't TBH.

SS THIs is not aggressive? Hmmm....
""Anyway, you wouldn't get as far as my feet as you would be too busy judging the un-tarted-up nature of the rest of me. Fine. So be it. I have better things to do with my life than to worry what people like you think of me.""

I am quite happy to debate the merits or not of horny heels- but I can't see why you post if you just want to have a dig and be rude.

I guess she's just multitalented snala!

LOL

I guess she didn't waste any of her time posting on the likes of MN either, Orm.

Sorry, I just couldn't resist as it reminded me a bit of my dad's "you kids don't know you are born" routine. I always came out with the M1 line to wind him up - I was an evil child!

YR - you know what, I have just wasted (another) 2 minutes of my life looking back to find these 'balanced' posts from MrsMW.

Nope. Just judgey ones. Shame.

No personal attacks, though, stealth. Just expressing her opinion. Is that what you mean by "judgey"?

I have only just signed up to mn this week.Not sure ill be using it much! I had no idea people could be so rude over nothing. thought we were havin a giggle?

..and I made no personal attacks either. Never have done and never will. I was merely speaking up for those who place other things higher on their priority list than looking perfect at all times.

You would have thought so wouldn't you, snala?

Heck, how can people get so HET UP about FEET?!!

For the record, I am playing this one strictly for laughs and refuse to take it seriously - no-one ever died of scaly feet (horrible though they are! )

Flexitol cream works wonders on cracked heels. No excuse to have narky looking feet. When i was younger my mother (and i still to this day do not know how she did it) actually made rubbing her feet and giving her pedicures sound like a huge treat and my brother and i would fight over who would get to do it. I plan on attempting to enlist my own DC's into cosmetic podiatry as soon as possible as husband refuses to give foot rubs (the swine).

Does having hard, cracked skin on your feet not hurt?

Oh, if only my life were so straight forward that all i had to worry about were other peoples cracked heels!

Although, this thread has made me paranoid about my own - i have terrible crocs feet, although this year its flip flop feet. I will be watching womens faces with interest now, any who look disapprovingly at my feet, well, they gotta be a mumsnetter!

cocolepew - nup, don'#t hurt, but puts my teeth on edge scraping it off

spokette: "I don't believe it when one says that they do not look at people's feet. In my expereince, women always notice the shoes that other women wear which means that they ae look down at their feet.
"

In your experience?? Well I don't, and last time I checked I was still a woman.

'I don't think that people of her generation were so concerned with grooming every inch of themselves.'

I think they were even more so! My mother's 68 and is forever decrying how slovenly people are dressed 'nowadays'. Back when she was younger, people dressed up to go to the cinema even! Men wore hats regularly. Women wore tights and heels or dressier shoes more often. Etc.

I doubt anyone would have considered doing the school run in pajamas or being seen on the street with their undergarments on display.

expat - dressed, yes I agree. My granny was rarely seen out without a hat or gloves, or tights. And she refused to wear trousers. But that isn't 'grooming'. I doubt that 50 yrs ago all or even most women shaved their legs or armpits let alone shaved dead skin off their heels. We fret about bits of our bodies that rarely saw the light of day when my granny was young, or even my mum.

Maybe they didn't shave in the UK, Orm, but I can assure you they did in the US, at least in warmer climates.

Also didn't go out without make-up and their hair properly brushed/combed and usually styled as well.

That counts as grooming, I'd think.

Well my DM wore (and wears) jeans and scholl sandals, rarely (if ever) wore/wears make-up and has never worried about being "groomed" in the slightest (and she is only v. slightly younger than your DM, expat).

I wonder where I got the whole 'who you are is more important than what you look like' bee in my bonnet from?

Orm- you are incorrect on that one...

my mum is 82- so for over 50 years she has always shaved her armpits and legs, and still false-tans her legs even now so she can go tight-less in summer.

My gran did the same- except the false tan.

My mum used to be horrified that her neighbour had hairy armpits.

Maybe it was the place we live then - country girls born and bred, gran, mum and I. Mum is nearly as old as your gran mind you. And my gran would have been 110 this year!

""Well my DM wore (and wears) jeans and scholl sandals, rarely (if ever) wore/wears make-up and has never worried about being "groomed" in the slightest (and she is only v. slightly younger than your DM, expat).

I wonder where I got the whole 'who you are is more important than what you look like' bee in my bonnet from?""

So you are now advocating that we should all just be natural as nature intended, because your mum did?

You know, I simply don't recall saying that I valued anyone less because they weren't into personal grooming...I did say I didn't like looking at manky feet.

Orm- my gran is dead- my mum is 82.