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And now a feat of foot etiquette,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
And those foolhardy people who keep trying to get Miss Manners to rescind the rule against wearing white shoes between Memorial Day and Labor Day,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Oh,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], yes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the ones who install flooring or rugs that they don want anyone to walk on. Miss Manners is not impressed when they try to out-etiquette her by citing the Japanese custom of removing the shoes before entering a house. Those who claim this are not apt to be Japanese,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], nor in Japan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], nor aware that Japanese etiquette is directed toward making the guest feel that he has honored the house by entering it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rather than that he had better not mess anything up.
Summer brings out a whole new foot crowd,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and even more toes. There are also more wrinkled noses on people who don want to look at those toeses. Toes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Miss Manners meant to say. Apparently it true that things get slipshod in the summer.
As always when clothing is at issue,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the sartorial freedom cry is sounded: Comfort! It hot out,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and feet need all the air they can get. Is that too much to ask?
Sometimes it is too much to ask,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Other people sensibilities may be involved,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Miss Manners is skeptical about all those complaints involving smells and funguses. No doubt such problems do arrive in connection with barefooted-ness and open-air shoes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but she has an idea that these accusations are also made when that is not what is truly troubling people.
In clothing disputes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it is the symbolism that arouses the greatest emotions,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], especially among people who vehemently deny that there is any such aspect to the matter. Those who defy dress conventions claim to do so only for comfort and self-expression, while those whom they upset condemn them only on the basis of sanitation and aesthetics.
This hardly explains why fashions go in and out of conventional acceptability,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and why what is considered attractive and healthy on a beach repulses onlookers elsewhere. Nor does it explain the illogic by which shoes are regarded in terms of formality.
Shoes that are held onto the visible foot only by straps are at both ends of the formality scale. If they have flat soles and leather or plastic straps,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they are sandals,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], only fit to wear with bathing suits,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], shorts and jeans. If they have stiletto heels (speaking of comfort) and satin straps,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they are only fit to wear with ball gowns.
Laced shoes that fully cover the foot are businesslike,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], unless they are made of cloth, in which case they should be changed when arriving at one business.
Backless shoes are hardly considered shoes at all if they are called flip-flops. If they are called slides,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they are fit to go out socially,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and if they are called mules,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they are fit to entertain guests at home.
While Miss Manners accepts all this without expecting it to make sense,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she is not heartless. Yes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], shoes can make the feet uncomfortably warm in summer. So wear the correct ones and kick them off under the table. Just so you can find them afterward by feel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], without having to crawl around on the floor.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was reprimanded by a friend while at a movie theater when I took a couple of pieces of her candy without asking. Who was in the wrong? Should I have asked, or should she have been more forthcoming with the candy?
GENTLE READER: Where were you when your friend stopped by the candy counter? Nice as it is to share,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Miss Manners imagines that your friend assumed that since you didn buy any candy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you didn want any.
Grabbing what is not offered is culinary larceny. Your only hope is to say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "That looks good; maybe I should go get some." However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], if the movie had started,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you would have been committing a different etiquette transgression against everyone within hearing range. Then your only recourse is to slip out,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], if you can do so unobtrusively,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or to control yourself.
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