Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
Socks and Sandals don't mix
I have mentioned before the disturbing winter trend of women's fashion that is the Ug Boot.
Let us now expose the equally disturbing tendency of men to wear socks and sandals.
There are many things in this world that naturally do not go together. Oil and water, SBS and ratings, alcohol and driving, Jews and Palestinians, The Footy Show and a script writer not attending high school, Cronulla Sharks and the NRL Premiership and finally socks and sandals.
Since then we have seen that every day types of blokes will now happily get around in a pair of black sandals on a warm day. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The problem lies in that some of these people are parents and that they are dressing their kids in socially unacceptable ways. If we were to see a 4 year old girl walking through a shopping centre in something that looked like it belongs in Cher's costume collection, there would be an outcry. So should there be when toddlers are forced to wear socks and sandals by parents oblivious to the long term effects they are having on their children.
So when you are dressing your kids in the morning ready to go out in public for the day, there are two little letters that mean so much to your childrens future. OR.
It is socks OR sandals not socks AND sandals.
Never before has something so little, meant something so much, to someone so young.
I have mentioned before the disturbing winter trend of women's fashion that is the Ug Boot.
Let us now expose the equally disturbing tendency of men to wear socks and sandals.
There are many things in this world that naturally do not go together. Oil and water, SBS and ratings, alcohol and driving, Jews and Palestinians, The Footy Show and a script writer not attending high school, Cronulla Sharks and the NRL Premiership and finally socks and sandals.
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Now some may argue that it is every consenting adult's right to wear what ever they like. In deed once you turn 18 you can drink a beer, vote for the Greens, get a tattoo and other such silly things that you will regret later. By law you can't do these when you are a minor without the ability to make a proper judgement.
Another aspect of being a minor is that your clothes are often chosen for you. Especially when you are very young. In fact it is the very young that I am becoming concerned about with the alarming prevalence in ridiculous male footwear. It used to be that the only blokes who would wear socks and sandals were over 60. That was in the days before the emergence of the trendy new beach sandals that has now become part of the unofficial uniform of the British Backpacker. |
Since then we have seen that every day types of blokes will now happily get around in a pair of black sandals on a warm day. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The problem lies in that some of these people are parents and that they are dressing their kids in socially unacceptable ways. If we were to see a 4 year old girl walking through a shopping centre in something that looked like it belongs in Cher's costume collection, there would be an outcry. So should there be when toddlers are forced to wear socks and sandals by parents oblivious to the long term effects they are having on their children.
So when you are dressing your kids in the morning ready to go out in public for the day, there are two little letters that mean so much to your childrens future. OR.
It is socks OR sandals not socks AND sandals.
Never before has something so little, meant something so much, to someone so young.
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