...to not want to take my shoes off...

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when I've arrived at someone's house for a dinner party having spent ages choosing what to wear, including footwear?
Surely you can't expect people to get dressed up to come round for a meal and then ask them to wander around in their socks/tights (or even worse, popsocks hiding under knee-length boots!)

If only people did wipe their feet, when selling our house some filthy bastards didn't bother to wipe their feet and trod dog shit all the way up my cream stairs. I very very nearly sacked the estate agent for that one and having never been a shoes off person really until that happened. Incidentally we had new carpet put in on thursday (upstairs) and some fucker has already trod mud into it (prior to it being down for 24hrs). Now there are no shoes in my house upstairs.

God how perfectly ghastly

Isn't there some way all these lower class oiks could rounded up and fired from a cannon onto the surface of the moon

I mean removing shoes and having the largest television in christendom really

In the UK I would say it's very lower middle class to be so pre-occupied with your floors.

Lower middle class you say

even worse than I feared

Nothing but the surface of the sun for that lot

Shoes are very much part of my outfit especially for going-out. I am also only 5ft so like the additional height that heels give me.

I do think its about being a good host as well and making guests feel welcome. Making someone take their shoes off for a dinner party when they're clearly dressed up - well it just seems rather unwelcoming.

Oh they part of an outfit for me I admit.

Plus a bit of alcohol at a party and my highest heels and I can't even feel the pain

I love any excuse to be even taller.

One party I wore flat Bloch shoes and it bugged me all night.

I have been thinking about this. If you made me take my shoes off, I could arrive in glorious 10 inch stilettos, make a stunning entrance but then could remove them, thus freeing me of the agony of having to wear them for longer than 5 minutes.
I'm starting to like this idea...

To be honest I never have posh dinner parties where people would wear high heels, a bit of an oik so no need to not enforce the rule. Annoys me when workmen come in and trample up your stairs though, does that make me above or below stairs? I do quite like Thomas in Downton.

It's most definitely a class issue. Those people who tend to make a fuss about being asked to remove their shoes tend to be those wannabe middle class wankers who put their appearance over the wishes of their friends.

They're also the same wannabe middle class wankers who cry them selves to sleep in custody when they end up locked up for possession of their little bit of weekend class A.

No one else thinks its issue.

As I've already said I've a strict no heels rule due to stupid previous owner destroying the beautiful parquet flooring on my ground floor by tottering around on heels. If I invite someone over and they don't like this then can fuck off (to be blunt).

Funnily enough its never been an issue - but then the none of my friends consider their footwear to be a reflection of their social status.

I didn't say I wanted to keep shoes on to be mc. But I like to wear what is in my wardrobe and not stand around in tights.

Anyway, most people aren't so explosive about it

Quite Marsha.

Although it would get things off to a bang at a dinner party wouldn't it

Luckily I've never been asked to remove shoes when going to friends in the evening - I guess thats the benefits of being a wannabe mc person

It all depends if you have had dog shit walked through your house by tossy people who don't give a damn and frankly have no intention of putting an offer in on your house. What would everyone do then?

As you said spookily - estate agent should have perhaps commented.

But as a rule I tend to look at the host and see if they're wearing outdoors shoes and go along with what they're doing.

But I am an ultra polite guest and host

I also prefer to have easy to clean floors downstairs rather than carpets.

Perhaps they're not Riven but I feel better in heels as feel like a little munchkin if shoe-less.

Perhaps if host provided me with a box to stand on that would be a solution Also of course heels are slimming.

Realise I have reached the depths of shallowness with my last comment And you can tell why I normally stick to the S&B threads.

I havent been to a dinner party for a while. Just drinks and standing type things.

When I made the error of wearing flats, after glass one I (secretly) stood on tiptoes, after glass three I lamented outloud my bad choice.

I like being really tall and I have realised I usually have a better time.

(joins Tracey in shallow s&b waters )

traceybath I am with you on that one..I am only 5ft 2inch and I feel tiny without heels as I ALWAYS wear them..if someone tells me to take them off I feel well..vulnerable almost!

we are on a rent to buy, and if we decide not to buy, any marks on carpets we have to pay, so we always have no shoes in our house as its cream carpets, and no matter how much you wipe your shoes stil brings in dirt and marks, also i like to know the carpets are clean if my baby will be crawling on it and putting stuff in mouth if its dropped on floor, ie, toys, dummys that its clean. i always take off my shoes in other peoples houses as its respectful

We're also renting - had all carpets cleaned last week and will do so before we move out.

Cream carpets in a rented house is crazy though.

But my dc's crawled outside and put mud and worse in their mouths.

I think its more an upstairs thing for me, we have shite carpet doewnstairs and currently couldn't give two hoots about what comes in on it, we also have a dog AND a killer cat so have had alsorts on that carpet, upstairs though is my pride and joy and slipper wearing heaven, but the now no one needs to go upstairs as we have downstairs facilities! Hooray!
I really only take my shoes off in someone elses house when I am comfortable, have a friend though who makes you take off shoes even though she has wooden floors and I am only ever in flats (as fat waddly pregnant feet that haven't gone back to normal yet) so don't really get that - cream stair carpets I do, and although I think they are mad, they are lurvely and I would like to keep mine fairly clean - at least for a week!

yeah i suppose she does need a immune system, but its just knowing its nice and clean in your house :)