When I was a brand new teen attending semi-formal events I noted that most girls would slip off their shoes in order to dance in just their nylons.
In the early 80's I discovered that the young teen girls of the era would bring white sweatsocks with them to weddings and the like to slip over their nylons to dance in after de-shoeing.
Throughout the 90's I was pleased to see the majority of women following my wife's late 80's lead in just kicking off the shoes to dance in the comfort of totaly free feet and legs that had somehow become acceptable to the masses while of course at the same time leading to the demise of the panty hose industry.
A little over a year ago at our daughter's wedding I was a bit surprised to see how many twenty-something girls brought flip flops to change into for dancing after slipping out of their heels. They looked funny to me, dressed to the nines but for the white plastic flippies while dancing the night away. Were they really all that afraid of the wooden or tile dance floor?
Sunday night we went to a wedding and many of the girls did the exact same thing.
I thought dancing in nylons was dumb, slippery and such but it made more sense then leaving on the heels.
The white socks? Clunky looking but I guess it saved money in the long run. Bare feet of course looked right and made sense, but now they've gone a step backwards........flip flops for dancing?
I have to wonder if it is the idea that flips are fashionable, or that germs are everywhere and somehow rendered neutral by a flimsy rubber barrier.
I'll never understand women.
Then again all the men wore tight stiff & rigid un-ventilated elevated heel dress shoes with socks......except for me!
In the early 80's I discovered that the young teen girls of the era would bring white sweatsocks with them to weddings and the like to slip over their nylons to dance in after de-shoeing.
Throughout the 90's I was pleased to see the majority of women following my wife's late 80's lead in just kicking off the shoes to dance in the comfort of totaly free feet and legs that had somehow become acceptable to the masses while of course at the same time leading to the demise of the panty hose industry.
A little over a year ago at our daughter's wedding I was a bit surprised to see how many twenty-something girls brought flip flops to change into for dancing after slipping out of their heels. They looked funny to me, dressed to the nines but for the white plastic flippies while dancing the night away. Were they really all that afraid of the wooden or tile dance floor?
Sunday night we went to a wedding and many of the girls did the exact same thing.
I thought dancing in nylons was dumb, slippery and such but it made more sense then leaving on the heels.
The white socks? Clunky looking but I guess it saved money in the long run. Bare feet of course looked right and made sense, but now they've gone a step backwards........flip flops for dancing?
I have to wonder if it is the idea that flips are fashionable, or that germs are everywhere and somehow rendered neutral by a flimsy rubber barrier.
I'll never understand women.
Then again all the men wore tight stiff & rigid un-ventilated elevated heel dress shoes with socks......except for me!
