Yeah I know most of you would roll your eyes and mutter under your breath "Whooptee-freakin-doo-da. The sun is shining,It's what you DO."
Dear readers, how misguided and uniformed you must be of culture here in Beautiful BC, Canada where it is common practice for one to wear socks with their Birkenstocks, Tevas and even flip-flops( ok, well in that case it would either be children or Japanese in their traditional wooden tabi sandals and in which case they have special TABI socks for their TABI shoes so they are exempt from this fashion faux pas but everyone else should be shot).
God knows what the logic is in this, but I certainly cannot seem to figure it out for the life of me.
Apparently the West Coast is known worldwide for more than our supreme hashishishish; yes it's true, people in other corners of our planet crack jokes at their dinnertables about our choice of fashion here.
You might wonder what could possibly be so absurd in our closets that people are talking about it long after their vacation to Vancouver is over, well I shall give you a small taste of some of the sightings I encounter on a daily basis.
It would appear that some of us, namely men ( because us ladies love shoes and pedicures too much not to have an excuse to buy more or get another one and then show them off all at once!) have this thing about exposing their tender tootsies to the open air. I am not sure if they think mosquitoes will wander down and suck the blood supply out of their toes butit must be something drastic because these guilty folks will wear sandals and WOOL SOCKS in the summer heat! The only reason I have been given once by a guilty man clad in woolies and Tevas was " Well with our wet weather, I don't want my feet to get wet."
* slaps head.
Oh yes. Wool socks, manna from heaven for a BC man who loves to wear sandals, but can only ever get to second base.
Oh yes, I was blessed once more to be given the tiniest iota of understanding of this phenomenon that adorns our men with their warm sandaled "I'm-ready-for-the-rain-and-a-romp-on-the-beach" feet - my Dad once said to me after I asked why on earth he was wearing gym socks with his leather sandals :
" It's still cold out, not quite warm enough to wear sandals."
"But you are wearing sandals."
"Yes, but I have socks on."
"Put some shoes on then - DUHHHHHHHHH"
"But my feet will get too hot, they need to be OPEN and FREE just not exposed."
"Socks are not meant to be worn with sandals; it makes sandals completely redundant, pointless and possess no reason to be created - therefore you look like a dumbass."
ok well I didn't say the last part, but oh it was there, ready to come out and smack him silly up side the head.
No I don't understand this practice of keeping one's toes open but closed at the same time, personally I don't like dirty socks and that's nastier to me than my toes being subjected to sand on the beach. But then again, I can't seem to uderstand this new fashion craze that is the little neck scarf in the summer heat, or the down vest paired with a miniskirt and flip-flops or a hooded sweatshirt with a heavy knit scarf complete with Mountain Equipment Co-Op Capris - it's all about the urban outdoor preparedness, dressed to go from the mountains to the beach, to the city and back up to the mountains again, all in one outfit.
for the love of socks and sandals and the bermuda short - and a little neck scarf.
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