Would it bother you if your doctor was wearing shoes like these?

[BloodyMaud]

I love them, but can't really justify them unless I wear them for work, at least sometimes. They have loads of styles - some are definitely innappropriate but wondered if some would be ok. Rest of outfit is usually colourful but fairly smart/ conservative.

Mine does, painted dr martens last time and she's circa 50 years old

I, like others would not give two shiny shites over what shoes you were wearing as long as I could get in to see you the few times i need to.
If you work with children even better, if with adults then your shoes do not define you.
Wear with pride.

I do a very grown up job and I sometimes wear sparkly Docs and a sparkly t-shirt. (ok not to meet customers but a doctor is different)
I think they're lovely.

I'm an adult woman doing a professional job and today am doing it in my pjs. (work from home). I'm particularly efficient today!

Are they actually marketed at adults?? I think I would assume they were a little on the immature side to be wearing those; (and that’s putting it nicely, I’m not typing as robustly as I’m thinking...) not an image you’d want to project as a doctor?
I need a bit of gravitas when I’m feeling stressed speaking to a medical professional, not to see someone bouncing around in what are effectively a pair of Lelli Kelly’s.

All you people in your pjs and wacky crocs, do you ever have to tell anyone that they have cancer?

I wouldn't bother me as such but they are pretty hideous

I love dolly shoes. Wear 'em.
Someone shamed me for wearing a 'short skirt' yesterday. It was knee length... see what I mean? Do what thou wilt. There is always some old grumpus around.

Honestly? Yes, because I have a pet hatred of Mary Jane shoes and wonder why any grown woman wants to dress like a toddler. it unnerves me. But if the doctor was otherwise professional I'd curb my anxiety.

whatever is comfortable on your feet particularly if you are working in a large hospital& you are on your feet all day!

When I was in hospital having my daughter (sadly stillborn, sorry for the gloomy post), my midwife wore shoes like this and I thought they were great! I wasn't offended and didn't think she was unprofessional. And I can't really imagine a more serious scenario than mine.

Call me old fashioned but some professions require a conservative dress code - GP, solicitor etc. As other have said they'd be ideal if you were a paediatrician. You would need to dress very casually to wear those too, whereas a wacky tie is easier to carry off with a suit or trousers and shirt.

Not my taste at all and I'd probably be thinking 'hmmm' if I saw a professional person at work in them, but I wouldn't care enough to comment or complain. They're just shoes.

I'd love it and would feel much more at ease.
The best doctor in our practice wears corduroy trousers and big jangly earrings. She's well loved and respected by all her patients and has a well deserved reputation for being the doctor you ask for when you actually need to get shit done.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen my GP or consultant shoes tbh.. they are usually safely under their desk.

Couldnt care less TBH!.As long as Doc doing a good job and helping me they can wear whatever they like.

They wouldn’t bother me if my doctor was 8 years old.

Happily for me, my doctor is a grown woman.

What kind of doctor? How often do you have to give patients/relatives bad news? I would be bothered about being told I have terminal cancer by someone wearing smiley-face shoes.

They look like kids shoes to me and not very professional. However, IME there have always been quite a few doctors out there with a wacky sense of dress. I used to have a GP who had a selection of garish bow ties and my uncle (god rest his soul), a GP his whole life, wore sandals with socks every day of his life (he used to tell people he had ingrowing toenails if they asked, but he was very outdoorsy and lived in running shorts and a kagoule, so he probably just found them comfortable!)

I visited a surgeon once, he wore a crudely knitted tie, he was excellent and I liked his unusual attire.

I bought a pair of these as thought they were fun. They are absolutely horrible sweaty nylon material, with crap support. They feel like a pair of slippers wrapped in cling film. So aid judge you for not returning them immediately.

I am now poorer. But soon I will have new shoes.

Yes TBH. There's a time and place and these are too much for a Dr seeing patients. I'd wonder at your mindset and why you were unable to accept normal work clothes and limits. Especially if I had never met you before, its not a good first impression. There's a way to be colourful and individual without being childish or too informal. Or yes, wacky. Ugh.

And I would question a Dr in a Mr Man tie unless perhaps he is a works on a children's ward and is under 26.

I don't think we need to see people's inner personalities leaking out to this extent in places where we expect professionalism and especially with Drs. Its not about you.

And are you really saying that a Dr can't afford a £44 pair of shoes just for non-work use? I find it hard to believe a Dr is that hard up so it sounds like an excuse.

@SirTobyBelch

Do you honestly think you’d care about the doctor’s shoes if you were being told you had terminal cancer? Wouldn’t you have other things to think about?

Genuine question, I’m not trying to be goady.

I probably wouldn't notice :D