Are Birkenstocks suitable footwear to west for work in an office?

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I work in a formal (ish) office environment and noticed today that my colleague was wearing Birkenstock-type sandals ( think they were imitation ones which is not the issue).

I have to say I was a bit as I feel they are too informal for an office and I would love to wear a pair of blingy pretty flip flops but fairly sure my boss would not approve.

Obviously the title should say wear for work

I only do on dress down fridays and our office isn't particularly formal.

I agree with you fwiw. Not suitable for formal office .

We are not allowed to shoes which don't go round the back of your heel, so that is all Birkies out. I'd say they are too casual for many offices anyway.

It depends what with.

And the office.

And the nature of the business.

bike are sandals ok in your office as long as they have a strap round the back as I wear those quite a lot (wedge-type ones)? My work is not that strict fortunately

I wouldn't mind if my employees wore them if they were clean and unscuffed, no chipped nail varnish and it was a day they weren't seeing clients. But we are small creative company. It would have been totally unacceptable in other places I have worked and indeed in the offices of almost all our clients.

I work in a primary school. We are not allowed to wear the ones without a strap around the heal for health and safety reasons.

Shame as I love love love my gizehs...

Depends where you work. Where I am (a university) it would be fine, would also have been ok at my previous workplace (quangoish), would also be ok at DH's work (creative).

I actually think strict work dress codes are a bit dated and pointless in this day and age unless they are for safety.

I do, and did today, but only wear them plodding about my c quiet, non-customer facing office. I keep a pair or 5 of smarter shoes under my desk for if I'm off out to meetings.

Sandals with a heel strap are fine spooky. I have just bought these. It's not so much a dress code thing (we are 'Smart Casual" but also work outside a lot, so lots of combat trousers, jeans and branded polo shirts) as a health and safety thing. Our manager thinks heeless shoes are dangerous and likely to fall off.

If corporate environment then I'd say no. Often would be against policy. Any sandals not just birks!

Maybe she had been out shopping , got back and not changed? I had courts for office but sandals or trainers or uggs to and from....

We are not allowed to shoes which don't go round the back of your heel, so that is all Birkies out

Not necessarily- birkenstocks come ina huge variety of styles, even including utility type shoes and boots as well as trainers.

IMO birkenstocks are so comfortable that it's worth looking at their website to see if there is a suitable style for work before buying anywhere else. Especially if on your feet all day.

They would be frowned on in my workplace. However I did get away with wearing them when pregnant with DD2 as there wasn't much else I could get me feet into!

I have a doctor's note about allowing me to wear certain types of footwear (or more specifically not wearing others)

Not acceptable in any office I've worked in but more from a health and safety pov rather than a fashion one.

In the UK, I would say no.

But when in LA (on holiday) I saw someone carry off a shirt, pleated wide leg trouser and flip-flop type shoe look very well.

In the UK I would expect a covered or peep toe shoe in an office. But then there are only 3 days a year it's actually hot enough to take off your thermals here.

It depends what I'm doing that day. If I'm sat on my arse at the computer - with my feet out of view - then no-one cares. If I'm doing something more corporate, then no.

I wear them to work as a GP.

"In the UK I would expect a covered or peep toe shoe in an office", pretty much this. Obv there are exceptions.

I work in the office of a multinational FTSE 100 company and no one bats an eyelid at my Birkenstocks. Admittedly it's generally inexplicably boiling
In there.

No, I don't think so.

In any case there is a massive difference in what you can "get away with" i.e. not get told off for and what you should wear if you have any interest in your career and want to present a professional image.