Wendy Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 I've found the fitting website for all you, mainly, British guys who commit this sin!. Ladies, are your men committing this fashion faux pas?. Check this out. sandalandsoxer.co.uk Sandals and socks....NEVER!!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 OK. Whatever you say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 >>>Ladies, are your men committing this fashion faux pas?<<<Actually that's one thing that my man doesn't like at all. He was brought up in Africa where men are always bear feet in their 'fellies'.When he returned to settle in UK, the one off putting thing he found which defines an Englishman in the summer or abroad : men in Sandals and Socks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 This site might be more in line with Australian culture (I see in another topic that wen is an Aussie). I was going to post the link in a topic about facial hair, which seems more or less obligatory for a certain brand of British person in France, but had lost it at the time (the link, not the hair).http://www2.b3ta.com/gash-or-tash/ (don't look if easily offended) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saddie Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Never mind male sandals and socks - the other day in Carrefour we saw an English couple and she was wearing a tee shirt thingy, no bra, a long unflattering skirt and velcro type sandals and grey mens type socks. No spring chicken either. This is the sort of thing that gives us brits a bad name for no style at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Umm, I shop in supermarkets in deepest Normandy. The locals are well known for their style and elegance! And their coiffure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 We went out for a pre match lunch - there is a couple(mid 50s I suspect) who frequent the same restaurant often at about the same time on a Saturday, as us, sometimes with their son. This time they all turned up in what I can only descibe as 'bags' the 'boys' had very long baggy, long, T shirts and knee length shorts, Mum has a T shirt material dress, knee length, no shape, lily white legs ........real style icons.Last week we went somewhere different and were treated to a loud conversation in what I think the speaker thought were upper crust tones, the topic was how the son, who was shortly flying to La Rochelle, would have to rent a car, and how he would be able to explore the long EAST coast of France ................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 There's that big lake thing next to Switzerland... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 [quote user="Dick Smith"]There's that big lake thing next to Switzerland...[/quote]Is that the Mediterranean ? Geography eh, simple once you get the hang of it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisb Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 "facial hair, which seems more or less obligatory for a certain brand of British person in France"I'm dying for a fuller expounding on this....what constitutes the certain brand - and is it a good thing or bad?As Will knows they have an East coast in Manche - but perhaps that doesn't count. I have been known to cause confusion by telling people I was brought up on the North coast of England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Oddly enough, the French think of the socks-and-sandals as being a very German tourist thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalpa Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Hello [:)]Brits in sock and sandals... or any nationality (but I'm really thinking French [6]) in polyester in summer sans deodorant? Oh, let me think. [:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 >>>I have been known to cause confusion by telling people I was brought up on the North coast of England.<<<that the little bit of Northumberland going back in to Scotland... Isn't it?...What's the bit facing North in Norfolk? Is that the East Coast?... Then that bit facing North onto the Bristol channel in Somerset is it called the West Coast...?...Big ear to ear smiley!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 >>>.....upper crust tones, the topic was how the son, who was shortly flying to La Rochelle, would have to rent a car, and how he would be able to explore the long EAST coast of France ....<<<Well depend how he sat at the table... If sat at the table facing south then east is OK! from his perspective (WOT!!) My geography teacher taught me that when you face North, East is always on your right... Now ... it's just a matter of finding which way is North! Later on in my life, my Father-in-law informed me that this North/South divide thing so much talked about, was just utter tosh! It was only a way for the English to find the direction in which to kick the Welsh home.... West is Wales and East is England!Well... he was not a very PC man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Steel toe caps ,socks and shorts............then you can say Yuck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 >>>Steel toe caps ,socks and shorts............then you can say Yuck!<<<Just received an Email photo of son-and-heir dressed exactly like that! Bearded, shorts, steel toe-caps and socks, hiviz jacket, geologist hammer in hand, hard hat helmet, wide happy grin across grimey face!... When I last saw him in April, he didn't have a beard!... Quite a shock !! Never mind the yuk factor of men in shorts and socks!... HAHAHA!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Steel toe caps, thick wollen socks, shorts, suntan, high vis waistcoat and hard hat. Nothing wrong with that Opas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Village People? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 [quote user="Opas"]Steel toe caps ,socks and shorts............then you can say Yuck![/quote]No no no! It depends on the shapeliness of what's in between, surely? Sometimes it can be Yum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 EGG Sackly SB. And nothing like village people Dick.Come to think of it Opas, what does Mr O wear to work. Tell me and I will give you my honest opinion. Is he like the yorkie man? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 [quote user="missyesbut"]>>>Steel toe caps ,socks and shorts............then you can say Yuck!<<< Just received an Email photo of son-and-heir dressed exactly like that! Bearded, shorts, steel toe-caps and socks, hiviz jacket, geologist hammer in hand, hard hat helmet, wide happy grin across grimey face!... When I last saw him in April, he didn't have a beard!... Quite a shock !! Never mind the yuk factor of men in shorts and socks!... HAHAHA!!![/quote]gosh thats sureal, you have just described my hubby, (except he has a lump hammer not a geologist one)[:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 [quote user="Opas"][quote user="missyesbut"]>>>Steel toe caps ,socks and shorts............then you can say Yuck!<<< Just received an Email photo of son-and-heir dressed exactly like that! Bearded, shorts, steel toe-caps and socks, hiviz jacket, geologist hammer in hand, hard hat helmet, wide happy grin across grimey face!... When I last saw him in April, he didn't have a beard!... Quite a shock !! Never mind the yuk factor of men in shorts and socks!... HAHAHA!!![/quote]gosh thats sureal, you have just described my hubby, (except he has a lump hammer not a geologist one)[:-))][/quote]I thought he was a lorry driver. Why does he carry a lump hammer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 [quote user="KatieKopyKat"]EGG Sackly SB. And nothing like village people Dick.Come to think of it Opas, what does Mr O wear to work. Tell me and I will give you my honest opinion. Is he like the yorkie man?[/quote]My mum always bought him yorkie bars as a stocking filler at christmas!Depends which job he is doing , Trucker.........well er steel toe caps , high viz vest and work pants, you know the ones , with the crease permanently sewn in, levi tee shirt and a cloth cap incase it rains!He has just applied for a new job,a bearded version of Del Boy springs to mind[:'(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 [quote user="KatieKopyKat"][quote user="Opas"] [quote user="missyesbut"]>>>Steel toe caps ,socks and shorts............then you can say Yuck!<<< Just received an Email photo of son-and-heir dressed exactly like that! Bearded, shorts, steel toe-caps and socks, hiviz jacket, geologist hammer in hand, hard hat helmet, wide happy grin across grimey face!... When I last saw him in April, he didn't have a beard!... Quite a shock !! Never mind the yuk factor of men in shorts and socks!... HAHAHA!!![/quote]gosh thats sureal, you have just described my hubby, (except he has a lump hammer not a geologist one)[:-))][/quote]I thought he was a lorry driver. Why does he carry a lump hammer? [/quote]Ask any mechanic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Del Boy??????? With a cloth cap in case it rains???????? He is going to kill you for that.Beware of the lump hammer Opas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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